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I suppose that I need to sneak in quick-like and post before the MiFi decides to start acting up. First off, thank all of you who shared your happy. It made me happier to read about it and vicariously share in it. Lest you think all is woe in my world, here's a little of my happy.
Tomorrow is both Friday and the Second Annual Battle of the Bands at work, which means we get to listen to co-workers make music, vote for our favorites, and eat lots of grilled food. Mmmmmmm. I could use a relaxing Friday.
My BIG FAT happy news though is that I finally entered the tablet world and got myself a Nook Tablet. Honestly, with the new iPhone, I already have a wee iPad that makes calls. I've been organizing and cleaning up my non Barnes and Noble ebooks to sideload into the device. Currently, I'm guessing I have about 400 books loaded onto the microSD card, along with some pics. It makes me both calm and deeply happy to know that I'm basically carting around a small library with me at all times. This weekend I want to experiment with converting a DVD to MP4 format and sideloading it. Then...I can have my favorite movies with me to watch whenever I want! *SQUEES*
I'm also trying up some of the two-week free magazine trials, and I have to say that I'm loving getting them right on the device and how wonderful the pics look on the HD screen. Today, when I turned on the Nook, I had a second free issue of SFX, and that made me very happy. Oh,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fleshlycherry, there is a lovely pic of a certain bald Marxist of our acquaintence in the issue. ^_^
What was even better than the Nook was the buying experience. I went to MY Barnes and Noble, the one closer to home than work, the one were I go to the author events, the one that is not on the border of Deliverance country. After we chatted about the evils of Amazon and the state of the brick-and-mortar bookseller and Calibre, he started writing down apps and websites to visit and showed me his copy of Tangled that he converted to MP4 to side load into the Nook.
And...apparently there is a program that can root the Nook but that lives on and boots the device from the card so it can root it without rooting it. It's good to have the booksellers as friends. I might look ito it if I want to go wild with apps, but since you can't update the sideloaded apps, and I don't need to root it to load media and books, there might not ever be a reason for me to try.
I was also happy that a young couple who was also looking at Nooks decided that they couldn't give up the experience of reading an actual book to get an ereading thingy. So while these devices will change publishing, I'm not sure that the death of the book is as immentent as some would have us believe. At least I'd like to think so.
Tomorrow is both Friday and the Second Annual Battle of the Bands at work, which means we get to listen to co-workers make music, vote for our favorites, and eat lots of grilled food. Mmmmmmm. I could use a relaxing Friday.
My BIG FAT happy news though is that I finally entered the tablet world and got myself a Nook Tablet. Honestly, with the new iPhone, I already have a wee iPad that makes calls. I've been organizing and cleaning up my non Barnes and Noble ebooks to sideload into the device. Currently, I'm guessing I have about 400 books loaded onto the microSD card, along with some pics. It makes me both calm and deeply happy to know that I'm basically carting around a small library with me at all times. This weekend I want to experiment with converting a DVD to MP4 format and sideloading it. Then...I can have my favorite movies with me to watch whenever I want! *SQUEES*
I'm also trying up some of the two-week free magazine trials, and I have to say that I'm loving getting them right on the device and how wonderful the pics look on the HD screen. Today, when I turned on the Nook, I had a second free issue of SFX, and that made me very happy. Oh,
fleshlycherry, there is a lovely pic of a certain bald Marxist of our acquaintence in the issue. ^_^What was even better than the Nook was the buying experience. I went to MY Barnes and Noble, the one closer to home than work, the one were I go to the author events, the one that is not on the border of Deliverance country. After we chatted about the evils of Amazon and the state of the brick-and-mortar bookseller and Calibre, he started writing down apps and websites to visit and showed me his copy of Tangled that he converted to MP4 to side load into the Nook.
And...apparently there is a program that can root the Nook but that lives on and boots the device from the card so it can root it without rooting it. It's good to have the booksellers as friends. I might look ito it if I want to go wild with apps, but since you can't update the sideloaded apps, and I don't need to root it to load media and books, there might not ever be a reason for me to try.
I was also happy that a young couple who was also looking at Nooks decided that they couldn't give up the experience of reading an actual book to get an ereading thingy. So while these devices will change publishing, I'm not sure that the death of the book is as immentent as some would have us believe. At least I'd like to think so.