Book Porn

[Fata Morgana]

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Austin Phelps

 

[AllyRose]

Oh I still read it every few years. I love the beginning when Lucy stays with the faun and it's always winter but NEVER Christmas. That would be my idea of pure heaven!

It really is a gorgeous book and I still have my childhood copy.

Me too! I have this tradition thing where I re-read Lewis and Tolkien every year. My favorite is The Silmarillion. I have a copy of the 1st ed. from HM, but it's starting to wear a little. I love it so much.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Silmarrillion%2C_Just_under_the_Cover.jpg/800px-Silmarrillion%2C_Just_under_the_Cover.jpg

 

[rbijon]

Me too! I have this tradition thing where I re-read Lewis and Tolkien every year. My favorite is The Silmarillion. I have a copy of the 1st ed. from HM, but it's starting to wear a little. I love it so much.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Silmarrillion%2C_Just_under_the_Cover.jpg/800px-Silmarrillion%2C_Just_under_the_Cover.jpg

Marry me!

 

[EroticRomanticMan]

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This reminded me of you!

 

[pfflyerhot]

Cool thread...

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That is some major book porn!

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I have a couple of these types that belonged to my grandmother... I don't use 'em in books, tho...

I've used receipts, postcards, torn pieces of paper, and magazine subscription cards as bookmarks.

Me too... unopened band aids work, too.

 

[Elixxxher]

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I've never seet that before. It is so Cool!

 

[AllyRose]

I've never seet that before. It is so Cool!

Cool? Not cool. To learn what it really is... we turn to Ms. Hilton.

"Paris, your thoughts?"

"That's hot."

 

[Nuff_Said]

I hate reading

I hate reading. When I find something interesting, I will usually sit and read that... for as long as it lasts. A book, a forum thread, whatever. The bit problem is, I get totally lost from realiry. I forget about food, sleep, that my dog needs a walk, about keeping the fire in the boiler in my house basement (that can be a real problem in winter). But the worst thing are headaches - when I skip my dinner I feel like I have a hangover.
I also terribly spoiled my eyesight with reading. So bad that now when I got a very cool digital camera, I can't enjoy its full possibilities.
So, in total, I hate reading. But I still read a lot. There is something masochistic about it, isn't it? Or I'm a book junkie?

 

[bill-pix-trade]

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Lit's woman book club:

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[Lorilei]

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[oggbashan]

My first e-reader

I have just bought myself a cheap, basic e-reader.

I copied books I already had from a DVD bought on eBay.

I now have 30,000 books on the 16GB card.

At first, horror - after 45 minutes transferring the books, none appeared.

Why not?

When I had picked the device up, the 16GB card had fallen out.

 

[AllyRose]

The e-reader one of my relatives bought me a looooong while back is still in its box... keeping one side of my couch propped up because the leg busted.

#FWP

 

[oggbashan]

The e-reader one of my relatives bought me a looooong while back is still in its box... keeping one side of my couch propped up because the leg busted.

#FWP

That might be the fate of mine. I bought it to go on holiday because I tend to read so much that I need a suitcase full of books as part of my luggage. If I can take an e-reader instead?

I can take a substantial part of my library once I have downloaded a few thousand of them from Project Gutenberg.

 

[oggbashan]

I have been using my e-reader to browse some of the thousands of books I have loaded on to it.

I'm a speed-reader. It won't change pages fast enough for me. I have given up and gone back to real books.

Years ago I was the manager of a mainframe computer unit. They had on-line training and system manuals. The page scrolling could be set by the user to suit their reading speed. My staff set the maximum speed at a page every five seconds.

That was far too slow for me. But no matter how hard they tried, the screen refresh rate wouldn't go fast enough. I tried to reset it at 0.1 seconds. The mainframe couldn't do page changes that fast. I could read the printed versions far quicker.

It is the same with my e-reader. I've finished the page almost before it has finished loading and I have to wait for the next page.

I'll keep it for use on holidays only. It would drive me mad for normal use.

 

[AllyRose]

English Teacher On First Date In Ages Lets Dangling Modifier Slide

FALLS CHURCH, VA—Recalling that it was her first date since September 2005, high-school English teacher Melanie Fitzgerald thought it prudent to overlook the grammatical errors of dinner date Aaron McPherson on Monday. "I really had to bite my tongue when he said, 'After getting stuck in traffic this evening, canceling dinner plans would have been completely understandable,'" said Fitzgerald, recounting her date's response to her five-minutes-late arrival. "I kept telling myself to give him the benefit of the doubt, even after he said, 'Being nervous sometimes, I can come off a bit awkward.' " Friends of Fitzgerald have advised her to continue disregarding McPherson's poor grammar and instead focus on his character, which sounds like that of a complete asshole.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/english-teacher-on-first-date-in-ages-lets-danglin,5503/

 

[thejabber27]

Me too! I have this tradition thing where I re-read Lewis and Tolkien every year. My favorite is The Silmarillion. I have a copy of the 1st ed. from HM, but it's starting to wear a little. I love it so much.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Silmarrillion%2C_Just_under_the_Cover.jpg/800px-Silmarrillion%2C_Just_under_the_Cover.jpg

/Does this but with the Wheel of time Series.

 

[RjThoughts]

I have just bought myself a cheap, basic e-reader.

I copied books I already had from a DVD bought on eBay.

I now have 30,000 books on the 16GB card.

At first, horror - after 45 minutes transferring the books, none appeared.

Why not?

When I had picked the device up, the 16GB card had fallen out.

LOL sorry, but I had to laugh

 

[oggbashan]

English Teacher On First Date In Ages Lets Dangling Modifier Slide...

Friends of Fitzgerald have advised her to continue disregarding McPherson's poor grammar and instead focus on his character, which sounds like that of a complete asshole.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/english-teacher-on-first-date-in-ages-lets-danglin,5503/

I embarrass my wife every time we are in France.

Her French is near-perfect cut-glass upper class Parisian. As a student she worked her summer holidays as an au-pair for a blind retired Professor of Literature. He insisted that she spoke his version of 'correct' French. She still does.

My last formal French tuition was in Australia. I still speak French with an Australian accent that I have long since lost when speaking English.

The contrast shocks anyone French we speak to. In Nord Pas De Calais her accent is very unusual but respected. My accent is also very unusual but the usual reaction is WTF!!

 

[AllyRose]

I embarrass my wife every time we are in France.

Her French is near-perfect cut-glass upper class Parisian. As a student she worked her summer holidays as an au-pair for a blind retired Professor of Literature. He insisted that she spoke his version of 'correct' French. She still does.

My last formal French tuition was in Australia. I still speak French with an Australian accent that I have long since lost when speaking English.

The contrast shocks anyone French we speak to. In Nord Pas De Calais her accent is very unusual but respected. My accent is also very unusual but the usual reaction is WTF!!

I haven't been to France, but I'm sure I'll get there one of these days.

The only time I've gotten a WTF reaction was when I was down in Texas. It's like they'd never heard anyone with an Irish accent before.

 

[AllyRose]

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Hmmm... which one to choose?

 

[AllyRose]

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[AllyRose]

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[AllyRose]

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[john415]

This thread made me hard

 

[AllyRose]

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