All aboard the Skylark

[skylarking]

~ Do you know what I don't get? Kindles. Why would you spend £100 on something that is essentially a book when you can buy a novel from a charity shop for 50p? Books don't need batteries and you can drop them on the floor and accidently drip tea on them without worrying too much. Also, to quote Giles, computers don't smell.

I'm a grumpy old woman. But that's okay; I think being a grumpy old woman is the new being a bright young thing


~ I have a Yahoo email account that is 14 years old. My email address is old enough to be choosing its GCSE options. Bloody hell!

Thing I have learnt
The collective noun for a group of larks is an exaltation.

Words my mobile phone doesn't have
Grenade.

Quote of the day
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
~ John Witherspoon

Stephenie Meyer, I am looking at you. Or, to be precise, I am not looking at New Moon.

Comments

[sunsetmog.livejournal.com]

I used to be like that about kindles! But now I've figured out their place in the world, and that place is on the tube. You can stand up and use one hand to hold on and the other hand to hold the kindle and turn the page. The other major use, and the one I wouldn't change for the world now that I've got one, is that you can change the text size. Speaking as someone who had to send her copy of War and Peace to the charity shop because the text was too small for my terrible eyesight to read without eye strain, even with glasses, the idea of being able to have larger text, better spaced, is frankly the greatest thing I've ever seen. But I'm not ever going to stop buying real books, or books from charity shops because you're exactly right - they're 50p and they're real books. But nor would I give up my kindle for the world now that i actually own one :D

[light-the-sky76.livejournal.com]

Ah I see. I don't travel on the tube so I haven't had that experience, and I can see the advantage of making the text bigger.

I wonder how long it will be before there are ebook upload thingys in charity shops...

[azur-infinie.livejournal.com]

I have a Yahoo email account that is 14 years old. My email address is old enough to be choosing its GCSE options. Bloody hell!

*snorts* I'd never thought of my Hotmail account like that before. Maybe because it deleted all my emails once and I still haven't forgiven it.

I don't get Kindles either. I hate the idea of reading books off a machine.

[light-the-sky76.livejournal.com]

My yahoo account hasn't done anything wacky so far *touches wood*

As much as I like computers I don't like the idea of scrolling to read a book. That's now how books work.