Read a good book lately?

[Swoop]

Which makes it a four book trilogy, but Spike Milligan already did one of those so...

Eh?
Spike's memoirs are not four books.

[R650R]

have we got a fuken e-reader thread?
Thinking about one.
Gen1 kindle seems to come up frequently.
Main concern is copyright shit, how do they manage that?
I have a stack of pdf on pc that i wont sit in front to read, nor print, but no idea about 'legality'

I have the last Kindle they made with keypad before they went all touch screen. It is very functional and easy on the eyes as you need an external light source like sun or lightbulb, behaves essentiually same as printed paper.
Easy to change font and flip pages etc and comes with built in dictionary for those grammar Nazi moments.

I've not really used it though since I bought a jEWPAD 4 retina and jEWPHONE 6plus as I have jewBOOKS app and Kindle app on there.
The Kindle app on jEWPHONE opens all PDF's in my library and could do it straight from emails to when mag sent coversheets to proof.
I still love real books but if its something I'll likely only read once I'll buy the ebook version, mostly just to get it instantly and also slightly cheaper.

[Akzle]

I have the last Kindle they made with keypad before they went all touch screen. It is very functional and easy on the eyes as you need an external light source like sun or lightbulb, behaves essentiually same as printed paper.
Easy to change font and flip pages etc and comes with built in dictionary for those grammar Nazi moments.

I've not really used it though since I bought a jEWPAD 4 retina and jEWPHONE 6plus as I have jewBOOKS app and Kindle app on there.
The Kindle app on jEWPHONE opens all PDF's in my library and could do it straight from emails to when mag sent coversheets to proof.
I still love real books but if its something I'll likely only read once I'll buy the ebook version, mostly just to get it instantly and also slightly cheaper.

five buck and a bag of chips for it, then sir!

Also, must spread rep...

[Motu]

Apart from bikes, our other obsesion is books, something we've passed down to our kids. So, the 3 car garage is full off non working motorcycles...but the house, garage and sleepout are full of books. I don't buy books anymore, I use the library...and have a Kobo so I can get books out 24/7. I don't use it all the time, but if I finish a book without another ready to go, I get onto the online library. I've always been addicted, I have to have a book to be reading otherwise it's back to cornflake packets and clothing labels.

[Akzle]

Apart from bikes, our other obsesion is books, something we've passed down to our kids. So, the 3 car garage is full off non working motorcycles...but the house, garage and sleepout are full of books. I don't buy books anymore, I use the library...and have a Kobo so I can get books out 24/7. I don't use it all the time, but if I finish a book without another ready to go, I get onto the online library. I've always been addicted, I have to have a book to be reading otherwise it's back to cornflake packets and clothing labels.

i use the library,,, but i dont have a library card (jew tracking shit, srsly. It's harder to get a library card than a fucken gun license).

Thankfully, our library disbands stacks of books on a semi regular basis, which i pick up. Keep the ones i have someone in mind for/ would read again, the rest go to op shops and the like. Fuck knows how copyright holders make money anymore. Open source ftw!

[awayatc]

They've had to downsize him to Tom Cruise stature, a short arse just can't do Jack Reacher stuff. Has anyone seen the movie? I'm too scared to look, when I read Jack Reacher, I just don't see Tom there. I read one last week, forget what it was called, but an earliier one.

Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher= Jack Russel........

[HenryDorsetCase]

The best science fiction I read last year was "The Three Body Problem" by Caixin LIU. Chinese and translated. Its really good. Cultural revolution, aliens, and hard core astrophysics. A++ would trade again. Which is a good thing becuase the sequel (its a trilogy) has just been published in English.

[pritch]

Eh?
Spike's memoirs are not four books.

Ah yes. It was four last time looked. I see it's seven now.
So many books, so little time.

[Tazz]

The best science fiction I read last year was "The Three Body Problem" by Caixin LIU. Chinese and translated. Its really good. Cultural revolution, aliens, and hard core astrophysics. A++ would trade again. Which is a good thing becuase the sequel (its a trilogy) has just been published in English.

Will look this up.
I've just been chewing through the Enders series and Enders Shadow series.

Sometimes I wonder if it would be better to sit down and read a bible while making starship like chirpy noises instead.

[george formby]

Apart from bikes, our other obsesion is books, something we've passed down to our kids. So, the 3 car garage is full off non working motorcycles...but the house, garage and sleepout are full of books. I don't buy books anymore, I use the library...and have a Kobo so I can get books out 24/7. I don't use it all the time, but if I finish a book without another ready to go, I get onto the online library. I've always been addicted, I have to have a book to be reading otherwise it's back to cornflake packets and clothing labels.

Ditto. I never have less than 3 books on the bedside table. Luckily the missus has a 2nd hand bookshop.. We need a thread on cool bookshelves. I want to put up a full wall floating shelf made out of sprung steel, like a big sine wave.

[bogan]

Ditto. I never have less than 3 books on the bedside table. Luckily the missus has a 2nd hand bookshop.. We need a thread on cool bookshelves. I want to put up a full wall floating shelf made out of sprung steel, like a big sine wave.

This thread should suffice.

But wouldn't the books fall over?

If we are talking book accessories, I have some mint reading lamps, about 500 leds...

[Akzle]

Ditto. I never have less than 3 books on the bedside table. Luckily the missus has a 2nd hand bookshop.. We need a thread on cool bookshelves. I want to put up a full wall floating shelf made out of sprung steel, like a big sine wave.

cement blocks, beer crates and a mix of stolen scaffold planks and ripped doors...


But your idea sounds cool too.

[AllanB]

The Sandman Slim series. Just got book 7 from Book Depository (free shipping). Looking forward to it.

On the home run with the final book of the Hugh Howey Silo trilogy (Wool, Shift & Dust) - a excellent vision of a not too distant future.

[HenryDorsetCase]

The Sandman Slim series. Just got book 7 from Book Depository (free shipping). Looking forward to it.

On the home run with the final book of the Hugh Howey Silo trilogy (Wool, Shift & Dust) - a excellent vision of a not too distant future.

interesting: I started WOOL and read the first story which I thought was OK then the plot, and characters all changed and I am all like "WTF is up with that?" And I got annoyed and put it down and lost interest.

Same with "Perdido Street Station" by China Mieville. Apparently it is marvellous but I simply couldnt get into it.

[AllanB]

It looks like that but all three books intertwine characters - it starts to click in book two. I won't say much more as it would give away the plot.