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Mar. 13th, 2011 04:11 am4:00am. Can't sleep yet. Want to go to Fighter's Practise at the park because it's going to be so nice and temperate tomorrow. So I need to sleep. Darn it. I have resorted to the Dreaded Sleeping Aid pills. We'll see if those work or just make me loopy. (Loopy me without an audience is a waste, even if I do get all embarrassed when reminded of whatever I did while looped out.)
Oh - and we went and looked at Nooks (the e-readers) today. I've been lusting after an e-reader ever since I saw![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rwday using hers lo these many years ago, and that lust has been growing and growing. I'm not impressed with the black & white text Nook because of its smaller reading screen, although I do like its 'turning page' ease and the lighter weight than the Nook Color. That, and it doesn't have screen-glare problems like the Nook Color does. I like the larger screen of the Nook Color, though.
You who have e-readers, how do you feel about yours? What do you like and dislike? Were there other models that you rejected for one reason or another? (jaine_parr, I've been following your entries about your experiences, but am really scared off of anything Kindle-related, because I don't know computer stuff from squat and fear that I'd never figure out how to format/convert things correctly in order to read them.)
I tell you, after watchingdonnavenice reading hers on our trip to and from Atlantian University last weekend, I was dying for one of my own! (I now know that she must have the Nook Color, since she had a self-lighted screen.) I keep thinking about what a godsend one would be in waiting rooms, doctor's offices, and during hospital stays. In the upcoming period*, it would be marvellous to have a library to thumb through while I spend so much of my time sitting, waiting, sitting - one gets tired of reading "WebMD" magazine! At one point in the last month, I found myself reading kid's magazines, just to avoid re-reading "Prevention". Ugh. donnavenice told me that she can check out books from the city library on hers, on demand, all the new ones. OMG, how grand that would be!
And oddly enough, Bossman actually seems to want one for himself, which I thought would never happen! And we could lend each other books back and forth... that would be so cool.
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* At minimum, I will be undergoing CT scans every three months, and possibly MRIs, too, as frequently, besides seeing the oncologist as needed. That's a lot of waiting room time, isn't it?
Oh, and if in the next couple of days I come online and whine about how much my tummy hurts and blah-de-blah-de-blah, feel free to tell me that eating white cheddar popcorn was probably a bad, bad, bad idea. Even if it did taste so very good.
Oh - and we went and looked at Nooks (the e-readers) today. I've been lusting after an e-reader ever since I saw
rwday using hers lo these many years ago, and that lust has been growing and growing. I'm not impressed with the black & white text Nook because of its smaller reading screen, although I do like its 'turning page' ease and the lighter weight than the Nook Color. That, and it doesn't have screen-glare problems like the Nook Color does. I like the larger screen of the Nook Color, though. You who have e-readers, how do you feel about yours? What do you like and dislike? Were there other models that you rejected for one reason or another? (
jaine_parr, I've been following your entries about your experiences, but am really scared off of anything Kindle-related, because I don't know computer stuff from squat and fear that I'd never figure out how to format/convert things correctly in order to read them.) I tell you, after watching
donnavenice reading hers on our trip to and from Atlantian University last weekend, I was dying for one of my own! (I now know that she must have the Nook Color, since she had a self-lighted screen.) I keep thinking about what a godsend one would be in waiting rooms, doctor's offices, and during hospital stays. In the upcoming period*, it would be marvellous to have a library to thumb through while I spend so much of my time sitting, waiting, sitting - one gets tired of reading "WebMD" magazine! At one point in the last month, I found myself reading kid's magazines, just to avoid re-reading "Prevention". Ugh. donnavenice told me that she can check out books from the city library on hers, on demand, all the new ones. OMG, how grand that would be! And oddly enough, Bossman actually seems to want one for himself, which I thought would never happen! And we could lend each other books back and forth... that would be so cool.
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* At minimum, I will be undergoing CT scans every three months, and possibly MRIs, too, as frequently, besides seeing the oncologist as needed. That's a lot of waiting room time, isn't it?
Oh, and if in the next couple of days I come online and whine about how much my tummy hurts and blah-de-blah-de-blah, feel free to tell me that eating white cheddar popcorn was probably a bad, bad, bad idea. Even if it did taste so very good.
