tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post33268079608516956..comments2024-03-28T11:28:51.868-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/28/24: OK, I admit it: Books are heavyNeil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-33000233002683289952021-12-28T21:29:06.636-06:002021-12-28T21:29:06.636-06:00The most useful kindle feature for me is the searc...The most useful kindle feature for me is the search function. You can find a word, phrase, name, etc., and use it to find a point the author made that you can't quite remember. Also, kindle lets you make notes and save them. I actually read kindle books on my laptop as I usually have it with me. It's a much bigger screen.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00286903765035924838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-42092554085749982332021-12-27T15:06:13.142-06:002021-12-27T15:06:13.142-06:00I LOVE my kindle. In addition to the fact that you...I LOVE my kindle. In addition to the fact that you can look words up right there there is the fact that you can adjust the font size. Moreover, on Amazon, you can download for free the first few chapters of any book. I don't do much library borrowing so that's a big plus. I am fortunate enough to be able to "pay for content" and I do buying many books, but I don't want to do so completely blindly with books. FYI I also subscribe to 10 different newspapers/newsletters, including mostly because of you the Sun-Times. Anniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16831580101168618303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-54723788243465078592021-12-27T13:51:06.003-06:002021-12-27T13:51:06.003-06:00There is one other plus for the Kindle that doesn&...There is one other plus for the Kindle that doesn't yet apply in your case, Neil. For those of us whose eyesight is not what it once was is the simple adjustment of text size. As much as I love real books, sometimes the print is just too small to read comfortably anymore.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06481674986802987213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-55121165632261237242021-12-27T09:35:03.677-06:002021-12-27T09:35:03.677-06:00I don’t have a Kindle anymore, since getting an iP...I don’t have a Kindle anymore, since getting an iPad years ago. You can read all the same books, plus the illustrations are in color! But another great benefit of either, for me at least, is being able to run across a character’s name and then easily search to remind my muddled brain who that is. <br /><br />I will say the Kindle is lighter and easier to read outside. And you don’t have all your notifications about texts and such to distract you. It’s a “purer” reading experience. Coeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06130250489695215525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-6478173075341118802021-12-27T09:17:41.878-06:002021-12-27T09:17:41.878-06:00Nu, boychik, so did you have to kindle the Hanukka...Nu, boychik, so did you have to kindle the Hanukkah lights before or after you got your Kindle? (Credit my shiksa wife for that bit of humor)<br /><br />I'm so old that when someone says "Kindle" I still think "Jerry"...as in Jerry Kindall (1935-2017). The Minnesota native played for the Cubs, Indians, and Twins from 1956 to 1965. Good glove man, but a lousy hitter (his lifetime average of .213 is the lowest for anybody with at least 2,000 MLB at-bats since 1920). <br /><br />Kindall became a highly successful head coach (860 wins) during his quarter-century with the University of Arizona baseball team, and then spent another two decades in radio, as a broadcaster. <br /><br />Kindall was also a devout Christian. The FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes eventually named an award after Kindall, presented each year to the player who best represents Jesus Christ both on and off the field. (Was J.C. also a great-field, no-hit second baseman whose glove kept him in the lineup?) How's this for irony? He died of a stroke--on Christmas Eve.<br /><br />I still remember him in his heyday (1960-61), as an infielder with the Cubs. But I never knew until recently that it was Jerry Kindall, and not Ernie Banks, who originated the phrase “the Friendly Confines of Wrigley Field”...Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-90284786978730732922021-12-27T07:30:53.521-06:002021-12-27T07:30:53.521-06:00Here’s a secret. You don’t have to pad over to the...Here’s a secret. You don’t have to pad over to the dictionary and flip pages. Just use your omnipresent phone and ask for the definition. <br />I still prefer reading an actual newspaper and book but I do have to admit there is a lot to be said for eReaders.<br />One problem I encountered however, was when I went to a book fair and found the author of an ebook I read, she couldn’t sign my laptop. Leshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16679840606511726447noreply@blogger.com