Text 10392, 126 rader
Skriven 2014-02-27 16:04:42 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 10320 av Dave Drum (1:18/200.0)
Ärende: Books and reading                                        [1]
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Hi Dave,

RH>  DD> Is the Nook a tablet with the e-reader functionality, then? I
RH> thought

RH> The Nook is basically an e-reader only. Various iterations of it
RH> have different features but we decided not to get the fanciest and
RH> get one that will (eventually) hold most all of my fiction library.

 DD> OK, it's as I had thought, then. The only thing I've seen on the basic
 DD> Nook that I would like to have on a Kindle is the backlight feature
 DD> which will allow one to read in a darkened environment. Prolly tough
 DD> on the batteries, though. My Kindle will go (has gone) more than a
 DD> month
 DD> without a recharge - so long as the wi-fi is left off.

If Im reading a lot, I'll recharge the battery when it dips below about
40%, otherwise it goes weeks on a charge. It does connect to the
internet to download books but we've not done too much of that--need to
get more--so I can't tell you how that affects battery life. OTOH, the
tablet stays plugged in when not using it.

RH>  DD> it was more like the original Kindle than the Kindle Fire which
RH>  DD> IS a tablet under its jammies.

RH> Well, we've got the tablet that'll give us a lot of computer
RH> functions. It doesn't have a keyboard (which is still disconcerting
RH> at times) but purchased originally for my art work first, reader
RH> part second.

 DD> Amazing how priorities change, isn't it?

Yes, it is. The tablet has an on screen keyboard for certain functions
but I'm not too comfortable with it yet. It also has a stylus so I can
either use that or my finger(s) for writing or drawing. Keeps finger
smudges off the screen if I use the stylus but for reading, the finger
turns pages, flips to another book (Sunday morning or Wednesday night
Bible study), etc faster.


RH>  DD> Or, as Stan Freberg said in the 1950s in response to a guy who
RH>  DD> said "Television expands your mind".

RH>  DD> "Yeah, up to 21 inches."

RH> Some folks, even less than that. Just can't see the sense of
RH> watching a really small screen--really bad for details.

 DD> Back then a 21" black & white console TeeVee was the Rolls Royce of
 DD> the fleet. And as expensive as a 40" range flat screen colour boob
 DD> tube is
 DD> these days - even without allowing for inflation. The $398 my dad paid
 DD> for our first Zenith console in 1957 equates to $3800 in 2012 dollars
 DD> (the last year offered at the site http://www.westegg.com/inflation/).

 DD> That's some serious change.

I've no idea what my folks paid for their first tv--which they gave to
my grandparents when they moved to M'ville. They got it back when I was
in 4th grade, upgrades were done when I was at college or married. We've
got a smallish flat screen Steve's brother gave us but have bought a few
over the years. Got a multisystem set in Germany so we could watch both
AFN and German/British (in Berlin) networks--it died while we were in
GA. I remember watching the original Galloping Gourmet on the first set
my parents had, then some 30 years later, his lightened up version of
some of the old recipies.

RH>  DD> Books are better than either movies or the glass teat - a well
RH>  DD> written book lets me imagine the entire scenario in my mine and
RH>  DD> build my own "castles in the air". Even a most excellent movie
RH>  DD> is merely a

RH> And scientififcally proven, as per an article in the paper a few
RH> weeks ago.

 DD> Got a link? I think I am interested in reading that article.

Sorry, it was in the "News and Observer", nando.com, (Raleigh paper) but
I don't recall the date. Late-ish January or early February is the best
I can tell you.


RH> Nice thing about video tho is the demos. For visual learners, it's a
RH> lot easier to see ow to cut up a chicken than to read about how to
RH> cut up a chicken. Of course hackers will do it any way they want to.
RH> (G)

 DD> That's me - by the time they get through all the CYA gotchas and do
 DD> and don't do stuff I am bored out of my gourd and off doing it my own
 DD> way.
 DD> Based, of course on what I have learned from better cooks than I and
 DD> observation over the years. Also on my personal tastes.

I'll read about it, watch it being done and then mangle it with the best
of them. I've gotten better over the years but still couldn't compete
with one who does it for a living.

RH>  DD> And books can present much more "back story" than either the
RH>  DD> small or big screen. In addition to forcing you to (gasp)
RH>  DD> think.   Bv)=

RH> I do like having back story sometimes, other times I think authors
RH> get into it a bit much. Michener doesn't use it too often but I
RH> noticed in his later books he tied characters from one into another,
RH> tho in very minor parts.

 DD> The kind of "back story" to which I was referring is the author
 DD> describing the protagonist's thought processes - which is very
 DD> difficult for a director to do without putting his audience into
 DD> snooze mode. And which takes a most excellent actor to put across
 DD> without verbalising that thought process.

OK, I was going for back story as in filling in bits of information from
previous books in a series, showing how the character has gotten to the
current point.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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