Reading

Thank you, Joan. Looks like some interesting reads available here.

Donna in Virginia

Thanks Bobbie & Cheryl! Now, will the story make sense if I skip #5?

Joan

Don't skip #5FC. Just realize the first 100-125 pages are slow going and anticipate her genius further on.

The Outlander Graphic Novel JUST came out, "the Exile" is the first 1/3 of Outlander told through the persons of Murtaughe and Jamie. DON'T EXPECT an exact rewrite as Graphic novels need some lassitude to keep the story moving. Over all it is excellent and I finished it last night. It is hard bound and the artist did an impressive job. Bobbie V.

Just a "Thank You" to the wonderful folks here, who convinced me to rethink my reading habits (I"ve been doing a *bunch* of rethinking lately ). I bit the bullet and bought an Kindle...... and a Nook. There are, after all, *two* of us in this household. What a great way to spend my American Express reward points! No out-of-pocket!

So far, I am totally happy with my purchase. I have started a library with The Prince, Gulliver's travels, Barry Lyndon, Leviathan, and a few others, all at no charge. Hooked up right to my in-house WiFi and downloaded each in less than 60 seconds! When I was in college, I worked in the school library's book bindery and I thought *That* was good, what with unrestricted access to the stacks and all. I think I have now died and gone to heaven! And *this* right after I discovered CommonCents, which allows me a cell phone at 7 cts/min flat, rounded down to the nearest minute, no extra (surprise!) charges. 15 cts/min international!

Alex is moving, however slowly, into the 21st century.

Thank you all again. I've always appreciated the advice of those in this NG.

Alex, who has a personal library of *cookbooks* that exceedst 300, down from the 800 it used to be. Fiction works are uncounted, but the DW is distressed every time we go to the supermarket and I see a new best-seller. Let this house be free from strife and dissension.

And Sue is close behind him!

Thanks for the mention of Common Cents. I'm going to look into that. We currently use a TracPhone, which is expensive per-minute, but so rarely used that we always run out of *time* before we use up our minutes. (As in, you buy 30 days and, say, 30 minutes. When there's one day left, we still have 27 minutes!) It's really just to carry for peace of mind when on the road.

sue

We have Virgin Mobile phones, and we pay something like 10cent/minute, but as long as we let them autocharge $5/month the minutes never expire. They'll even let you give minutes to another phone on the same sccount (DD ran through her minutes really fast one month (not totally her fault, we should have expected it when she went off to uni), and we were able to give her some minutes from our phones).

jenn

-- Jenn Ridley : snipped-for-privacy@newsguy.com

With CC, I don't think the minutes survive the time period, except that new customers get 200 bonus minutes that keep rolling over so long as the account is active. Having said that, their rates are $20 for one month, and $30 for 2 ( you get a minimum 600 minutes, but with "round down" you may actually use as high as 848.) That is $15 a month flat rate. (One month gets you as high as 565) If you go with a 12 month card, the flat rate is $12.50/month, and you'd have to really work to use up your minutes during the year. I expect, like you, I'll never use up the minutes on my phone, since I bought mine for the same reason you did. BTW: They use the Sprint cell phone tower network, so coverage is pretty good. Also, the phones have a reporting feature that advises you how many minutes you have left for use. I like that. Where I live, only walmart carries the refills, but you can do so online if that's your preference.

HTH

Alex

Love my nook!! Over 500,000 free books to read and over a million more to buy!! I take it everywhere. It is so easy! I can lend books the books I've bought. The prices start at $1.99.

I still read regular books, also.

just me, Cathy from KY in CA

I love my Kindle and just put Scrabble on it. That should keep me busy for a while.

Lucille

p.s. I'm reading Sara Paretsky's Body Work right now in hard cover and liking the book a lot, but annoyed with holding it up in my aching hands.

It was good

Actually, dear cozen, the prices start at $0.00. The current Patterson book, Don't Blink, is sold for $0.00 for the Nook, but at $14.99 for the Kindle. Go figure.....

Alex

That may have been a promotional price. It's $14.99 on both the Kindle and the Nook today.

Lucille

Oh, Pooh! I asked the wife to grab the Nook version. She dithered. Opportunity lost.

You must be right. Either that or a web error. Either way, opportuniity lost. Not too grieve, tho, B&N had it rated as 3/5 and Kindle 2/5 stars. Must not be too hot.

Alex

I check B&N almost every day and have always seen it at $14.99...have never seen it at 0.

just me, Cathy from KY in CA