Things work out funny.
Feb. 3rd, 2013 10:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lenora_roseSo I'm just going to post my last two facebook updates pretty much verbatim.
YESTERDAY:
Okay. I am officially doing this. As of now, having snagged the not-otherwise-available e-books highest on my must-have list (for Kindle's app for the PC, not for an actual e-reader, I'm still not going there), and being essentially without income, I am going to attempt to buy NO MORE BOOKS for the rest of 2013. If I see something not on my to read bookshelf I MUST read, there is a LIBRARY.
Let's see if I can even make it to June. :P
(The comments were entirely about ereaders and alternatives, shockingly, not people laughing at me about the book pledge.)
TODAY:
(Nathaniel) has managed to do it again.
So yesterday I was talking about not wanting an e-reader. Or rather, in the real world, wanting one but not being able to afford it and already having too many books to read. So not having one seemed a good way to try to cut down on the possible future books to be added to the to-read pile. (Thus my simultaneous pledge to not buy more books.) (Also as an aside, for all I chose to use a free Kindle app, I did NOT want a Kindle.)
Then this morning, (Nathaniel) pipes up that he has one, but doesn't use it, and would I take it? Sort of like the way we got our last TWO TVs (Actually I think Colin paid him for one)
Result: I have a Kobo ereader sitting here. And therefore can now actually read my own digital copy of my own e-book. :)
The pledge to not buy any more books still stands.
___________________
(He seems to have also left a few books on it. Not counting the public domain classics, many of which look like they must come pre-loaded, all but 3 are books I've read, and most of those even books I own.)
(Colin is also talking about buying his projector and movie screen. But for that, while Nathaniel would give us a deal, he's NOT coming even close to handing it over free.)
YESTERDAY:
Okay. I am officially doing this. As of now, having snagged the not-otherwise-available e-books highest on my must-have list (for Kindle's app for the PC, not for an actual e-reader, I'm still not going there), and being essentially without income, I am going to attempt to buy NO MORE BOOKS for the rest of 2013. If I see something not on my to read bookshelf I MUST read, there is a LIBRARY.
Let's see if I can even make it to June. :P
(The comments were entirely about ereaders and alternatives, shockingly, not people laughing at me about the book pledge.)
TODAY:
(Nathaniel) has managed to do it again.
So yesterday I was talking about not wanting an e-reader. Or rather, in the real world, wanting one but not being able to afford it and already having too many books to read. So not having one seemed a good way to try to cut down on the possible future books to be added to the to-read pile. (Thus my simultaneous pledge to not buy more books.) (Also as an aside, for all I chose to use a free Kindle app, I did NOT want a Kindle.)
Then this morning, (Nathaniel) pipes up that he has one, but doesn't use it, and would I take it? Sort of like the way we got our last TWO TVs (Actually I think Colin paid him for one)
Result: I have a Kobo ereader sitting here. And therefore can now actually read my own digital copy of my own e-book. :)
The pledge to not buy any more books still stands.
___________________
(He seems to have also left a few books on it. Not counting the public domain classics, many of which look like they must come pre-loaded, all but 3 are books I've read, and most of those even books I own.)
(Colin is also talking about buying his projector and movie screen. But for that, while Nathaniel would give us a deal, he's NOT coming even close to handing it over free.)
