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Avistew · 01/27/2011, 11:19 pm

Here in -40 weather, I borrow ebook way more than real books. Downloading it directly from home and not having to return it is worth a LOT. And they're compatible with pretty much all ebook readers (except for Kindle).

Chyron8472 · 01/27/2011, 11:43 pm

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Originally Posted by Rather Dashing

It seems to me that if everyone else in the industry is using a format, and you refuse to support it across various hardware iterations, it's at least partially your fault for stubbornness. "You" being Amazon in this case, I have no personal beef with you. I'm just rounding out the reader opinion and supplying my personal experience and hoping it's helpful. :P

I hear you and am forced to agree (and I knew the word "you" meant someone, in this case Amazon.)

I wonder though if Amazon is going to be about Kindle like Apple is about iPod/iTunes; which is to say "we have the largest market share, so we do w/e the heck we want."

I imagine that no matter how many people complain, at the end of the day Amazon may only go out of their way to resolve the library issue if it's deemed to have made a significant enough dent in their sales figures.

coolsome · 01/28/2011, 07:46 pm

I got 3 Poirot books. "the murder of roger ackroyd" "cards on the table" "curtain Poirot's last case".

Avistew · 01/28/2011, 07:54 pm

They're pretty good choices, all three of them, I would say. Curtain is the last of the Poirot stories, as the title says, but I guess there is no reason why you'd have to read them in order.

coolsome · 01/28/2011, 08:07 pm

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Originally Posted by Avistew

They're pretty good choices, all three of them, I would say. Curtain is the last of the Poirot stories, as the title says, but I guess there is no reason why you'd have to read them in order.

I guessed as much since I can watch any ep of the TV series and not be confused. And there was a 3 for 2 sale. XD

Rather Dashing · 01/28/2011, 09:03 pm

Barnes & Noble is discontinuing the 3G model of the Nook, apparently. This doesn't apply to the WiFi-only model or the Nook Color(which never had 3G). The 3G model is $50 more and comes with free 3G for life for the purposes of shopping for and downloading books. This has been my model that I've been using, and it's been nice particularly for titles that I purchased but neglected to download or hadn't realized I hadn't downloaded. If you're planning on getting a WiFi-only device though, you're still perfectly fine.

taumel · 01/29/2011, 07:15 am

André Franquin's Schwarze Gedanken.

Patrick Süskind's Das Parfüm.

Jack Vance's Demon Princes serie.

Chyron8472 · 01/29/2011, 09:06 pm

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Originally Posted by Rather Dashing

Barnes & Noble is discontinuing the 3G model of the Nook,

I don't understand this. First, they create the Nook Color to compete with the iPad more than the Kindle, and now they are even further distancing themselves from direct competition with Amazon by dropping cell access.

I don't get it.

Avistew · 01/30/2011, 05:15 pm

It's possible that they think people who buy the Kindle would buy the Kindle either way, so they want to compete with other devices because they think they have a better chance of making a difference there.

Chyron8472 · 01/30/2011, 08:01 pm

Maybe they can't afford the cost of providing free 3G access for the life of their devices, or perhaps whomever they have contracts with to provide said access wants too much money for it and B&N didn't want to pay it.

For whatever reason, I say it doesn't bode well for Amazon. It doesn't help Dish Network to drop the YES Network (NY Yankees Sports) when they wanted too much money to let Dish broadcast it.

taumel · 01/30/2011, 11:28 pm

Olivier Pond's and Georges Abolin's Jenseits der Zeit.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust (I+II).

Bedenke Phlebas from Ian Banks.

taumel · 02/01/2011, 02:18 am

The Watchmen serie by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.

Thomas Bernhard's Elisabeth II. – Keine Komödie (and many others).

Jack Vance's Dying Earth serie.

Ribs · 02/01/2011, 11:05 am

Finished the two towers. Some ending there. I look at the table of contents, so Fellowship's ending wasn't as much as a surprise as this one. Onto the film and then ROTK.

And edit after spending the several hours watching The Two Towers: Film was slow, but last hour was completely excellent in every possible way. The new Fall of Saruman didn't bother me either, as I thought it might.

mrpineapplehead · 02/01/2011, 11:50 am

i've finished a book just now, quite good and would read it again

(also the book was 'an idoit aborad, the travel daires of karl pilkiton')

skeeter · 02/01/2011, 09:38 pm

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Originally Posted by Ribs

Finished the two towers. Some ending there. I look at the table of contents, so Fellowship's ending wasn't as much as a surprise as this one. Onto the film and then ROTK.

And edit after spending the several hours watching The Two Towers: Film was slow, but last hour was completely excellent in every possible way. The new Fall of Saruman didn't bother me either, as I thought it might.

Oh cool, are you reading each book, then watching each movie? I've been meaning to read the books and watch the movies again, I've only seen/read them once. It actually took me years to get through the books on and off - strange, since I've read the Hobbit so many times...

taumel · 02/01/2011, 10:38 pm

Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira serie in black&white.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger's Der Zahlenteufel.

Piers Anthony's Doppelwelt serie (the first books).

Ribs · 02/02/2011, 03:35 am

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Originally Posted by skeeter

Oh cool, are you reading each book, then watching each movie? I've been meaning to read the books and watch the movies again, I've only seen/read them once. It actually took me years to get through the books on and off - strange, since I've read the Hobbit so many times...

Yeah, it took me a few months to get through fellowship, but just less then a month for the Two Towers. And I'm watching each movie sort of as a back up in the oft chance I didn't understand something correctly.

Chyron8472 · 02/02/2011, 02:25 pm

I suggest that you watch Kerr's fanedit of LOTR. Kerr has fixed the movies so that they are much more like the books (eg. Faramir never takes Frodo to Osigliath)

The fan edit, like the book, spends more time with each part of the fellowship before switching to another. Also, it has been split up into six movies instead of three to reflect the way that each book is organized into two parts.

I really do like it a lot better.

Ribs · 02/02/2011, 03:46 pm

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Originally Posted by Chyron8472

I suggest that you watch Kerr's fanedit of LOTR. Kerr has fixed the movies so that they are much more like the books (eg. Faramir never takes Frodo to Osigliath)

The fan edit, like the book, spends more time with each part of the fellowship before switching to another. Also, it has been split up into six movies instead of three to reflect the way that each book is organized into two parts.

I really do like it a lot better.

I'm not a firm believer of 'They Changed It So It Sucks', as the Lord of the Rings films do things that I don't particularly mind, as it didn't make much of an impact on the endgame. Now, if you pull a Watchmen, and change the ending, that's not cool.

Rather Dashing · 02/02/2011, 03:56 pm

Ribs: The ending is the only part that matters. Change anything else, and as long as it leads to the same place, the overall structure really is of absolutely no consequence.

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01/27/2011, 11:19 pm	#161
Avistew I<3>1 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: France Posts: 5,051	Here in -40 weather, I borrow ebook way more than real books. Downloading it directly from home and not having to return it is worth a LOT. And they're compatible with pretty much all ebook readers (except for Kindle).

01/28/2011, 07:54 pm	#164
Avistew I<3>1 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: France Posts: 5,051	They're pretty good choices, all three of them, I would say. Curtain is the last of the Poirot stories, as the title says, but I guess there is no reason why you'd have to read them in order.

01/29/2011, 07:15 am	#167
taumel Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 2,654	André Franquin's Schwarze Gedanken. Patrick Süskind's Das Parfüm. Jack Vance's Demon Princes serie.

01/30/2011, 05:15 pm	#169
Avistew I<3>1 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: France Posts: 5,051	It's possible that they think people who buy the Kindle would buy the Kindle either way, so they want to compete with other devices because they think they have a better chance of making a difference there.

01/30/2011, 08:01 pm	#170
Chyron8472 Killer Walrus Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Tulsa, OK, USA Posts: 4,146	Maybe they can't afford the cost of providing free 3G access for the life of their devices, or perhaps whomever they have contracts with to provide said access wants too much money for it and B&N didn't want to pay it. For whatever reason, I say it doesn't bode well for Amazon. It doesn't help Dish Network to drop the YES Network (NY Yankees Sports) when they wanted too much money to let Dish broadcast it.

01/30/2011, 11:28 pm	#171
taumel Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 2,654	Olivier Pond's and Georges Abolin's Jenseits der Zeit. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust (I+II). Bedenke Phlebas from Ian Banks.

02/01/2011, 10:38 pm	#176
taumel Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 2,654	Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira serie in black&white. Hans Magnus Enzensberger's Der Zahlenteufel. Piers Anthony's Doppelwelt serie (the first books).

02/02/2011, 02:25 pm	#178
Chyron8472 Killer Walrus Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Tulsa, OK, USA Posts: 4,146	I suggest that you watch Kerr's fanedit of LOTR. Kerr has fixed the movies so that they are much more like the books (eg. Faramir never takes Frodo to Osigliath) The fan edit, like the book, spends more time with each part of the fellowship before switching to another. Also, it has been split up into six movies instead of three to reflect the way that each book is organized into two parts. I really do like it a lot better.