My weekend was pretty productive
Out for a meal at a new Indian on Friday, went to the pictures a couple of times, went to the gym a couple of times.

Got an early birthday prezzie from my GF's folks - a Kindle. It's actually pretty good. I've downloaded a couple of books (although I haven't started reading them yet as I'm still finishing an actual book) but it looks like it could be pretty useful. I'm going away for a week or so, so it'll save me having to lug a couple of books about with me.

Has anyone else got one? Do you rate it?
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Mon 19 Sep 2011, 10:20, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

I have one
And it's fantastic. Got the WiFi but no 3G option, but it's just a matter of waiting until you get home. Lots off free books from Amazon plus *cough* plenty of torrents etc. You can forget you're reading from it, which I've never managed with another e-reader.
(McChinaman banned, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 10:22, Reply)

I like my sony reader
It doesn't even have wi-fi, you need a cable and everything.

But I really like the leather cover, makes it look like a little journal and it feels nice when you're using it.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 10:24, Reply)

Yeah the GF folks are minted so they got me the Wi-Fi/3G version
and my GF bought me the leather cover. The whole thing is smaller than an actual book, and looks great, so I think it'll come in really handy.

One question though - presumably I won't be able to use it during take off and landing - even if Wi-Fi/3G is switched off?
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Mon 19 Sep 2011, 10:29, Reply)

Well, technically you shouldn't
But as long as you turn it off when they walk around doing their checks, it can't make any difference if you then turn it on and start reading.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 10:31, Reply)

If my plane falls out of the sky I will be holding you personally responsible.

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Mon 19 Sep 2011, 10:32, Reply)

No worries.
I'm happy to have that on my conscience.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 10:40, Reply)

No, I think it would eat you up inside
culminating in your slide into alcoholism, drugs, depression and suicide.

I'll keep it switched off during take off and landing - but just for your sake, not mine.

No need to thank me.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Mon 19 Sep 2011, 10:44, Reply)

I feel a little bit better inside.
I should stop doing it myself now.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 10:46, Reply)

I can't say that I'd seen the free books.
That sounds pretty handy. Is that just on the Kindle section of amazon?

I certainly didn't know about the *cough* torrent stuff. That would be very handy. Perhaps 'someone' could *ahem* gaz me some info? Ta.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Mon 19 Sep 2011, 10:27, Reply)

If you like
I could send you some actual books. Do you like John Le Carre?
(Bazongaloid, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 10:29, Reply)

My mum came over to visit a few months ago, I got her to bring a Kindle with her
My uncle gave her 4 DVDs with 200,000 e-books to give me :-)
(McChinaman banned, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 10:33, Reply)

Holy shit, that's a lot of reading.

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Mon 19 Sep 2011, 10:37, Reply)

I can't imagine ever being able to read that many books.

(Bazongaloid, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 10:40, Reply)

It sounds great, but there's hell of a lot of crap on it
Maeve Binchy, JK Rowling, Tom Clancy, all that. Got some Stephen King, James Joyce, Iain Banks, EM Forster, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Tolkien, James Clavell, etc, so that's fucking awesome.
(McChinaman banned, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 10:41, Reply)

I reckon if you liked that sort of thing, having all the Tom Clancy and James Patterson kind of stuff
would keep you occupied for years.

I've never tried them, but I did download a few of teh Alex Cross novels since I enjoyed the films of "Kiss The Girls" and "Along Came A Spider".
(Bazongaloid, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 10:45, Reply)

"I reckon if you liked that sort of thing, having all the Tom Clancy and James Patterson kind of stuff
would keep you occupied for years."

Well, yes, it would. Largely because you read while moving your lips and running your finger across the page.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 10:50, Reply)

hahahahahahaha

(McChinaman banned, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 10:54, Reply)

The early Tom Clancy stuff was very good

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Mon 19 Sep 2011, 11:25, Reply)

To be honest, I've never read any.
I just assume that anything people are willing to lump in with James Patterson must also be lowest common denominator stuff for people who don't really like reading.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 11:37, Reply)

James Joyce was a shit paddy cunt.
Ulysses is the ultimate 'Emperor's New Clothes' book. The cunt said he he had "put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant". Bollocks - fuck off you pompous turd.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 10:47, Reply)

Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist are fucking brilliant
Ulysses on the other hand is unreadable.
(McChinaman banned, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 10:52, Reply)

The people who claim to like it
are the same turds who stand in the Tate Modern looking at pile of old shit, stroking their chins and claiming to 'get what the artist was trying to do'.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 11:03, Reply)

^so much this
I told a friend Ulysses was a pile of old shit, and she tried to suggest that I just hadn't understood it properly.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 11:05, Reply)

It is unreadable gibberish and anyone who claims to think otherwise is
a) lying and
b) pretentious
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 11:10, Reply)

ask them if they've ever read "the emperor's new clothes"...

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 11:16, Reply)

I used to like his early stuff but now it's too commercial

(McChinaman banned, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 11:27, Reply)

I liked Ulysses
and hate the Tate Modern, and do not "get what the artist was trying to do"
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Mon 19 Sep 2011, 11:26, Reply)

Did you read it in English?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 11:28, Reply)

I've tried to read it four or five times
But I just can't get past about Proteus. The Norton Anthology of Literature I have has 2 excerpts from Ulysses - each requires half a page of footnotes, for EVERY PAGE, to make sense of it. This just makes the demands on the reader completely unreasonable. (Finnegans Wake, on the other hand, is 1/3 text, 2/3 footnotes).
(McChinaman banned, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 11:31, Reply)

I just got an e-reader for my phone
I like it, the only advantage with a Kindle I think would be the amount it can hold.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 11:05, Reply)

How big's your phone?
I can't imagine it being easy to read that much on say an iPhone.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Mon 19 Sep 2011, 11:26, Reply)

Pretty big - 4.3" screen
Plus I don't look like a giant dork if I read while sitting alone in a restaurant.

don't look look less
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 11:44, Reply)

Are you sure about that?

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Mon 19 Sep 2011, 11:48, Reply)