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Old 06-15-2010, 07:32 PM   #21
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Never heard of that one, I get my books and some magazines (who wouldn't want to have the december 88 playboy with them wherever they go? ) through bittorrent sites. Been working my way through the extended dune series
The Dune books ROCK!!! The L Ron Hubbard Mission Earth books are great too! Aldiko has a ton of books but mostly older ones. I read Othello the other day between jobs for example. BTW Derf ever heard of pinch zoom, knucklehead?
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Old 06-15-2010, 10:24 PM   #22
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so wait... you cracked a screen on the Kindle and then bought the larger screen nook!? hope things work out though...

just bought my dad a Kindle for Fathers Day...
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Old 06-15-2010, 10:41 PM   #23
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so wait... you cracked a screen on the Kindle and then bought the larger screen nook!? hope things work out though...

just bought my dad a Kindle for Fathers Day...
Nook has the same size screen, anyway this is what became of my kindle screen

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Old 06-15-2010, 10:47 PM   #24
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The Dune books ROCK!!! The L Ron Hubbard Mission Earth books are great too! Aldiko has a ton of books but mostly older ones. I read Othello the other day between jobs for example. BTW Derf ever heard of pinch zoom, knucklehead?
!00% agreement on dune. i tried hubbard once and didnt really care for it, anything from john ringo and davids' weber and drake is amazing though. Im literally dying to see what comes next in the honor harrington series
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Old 06-16-2010, 06:47 PM   #25
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!00% agreement on dune. i tried hubbard once and didnt really care for it, anything from john ringo and davids' weber and drake is amazing though. Im literally dying to see what comes next in the honor harrington series
If you havnt yet read the foundation series you should. Pretty friggin awesome books by the master, Asimov. I think the whole series is something like 30 books that all intertwine with each other over the course of 50k years, start with I robot (yeh like the movie) and work your way through the second foundation trilogy. The whole series is written by a few different authors and you can easily tell who the better writers are, but thay are all still awesome books
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Old 06-16-2010, 06:51 PM   #26
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If you havnt yet read the foundation series you should. Pretty friggin awesome books by the master, Asimov. I think the whole series is something like 30 books that all intertwine with each other over the course of 50k years, start with I robot (yeh like the movie) and work your way through the second foundation trilogy. The whole series is written by a few different authors and you can easily tell who the better writers are, but thay are all still awesome books
yep, I've read the Asimov books in the series, very little interest in the knock offs...
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Old 06-16-2010, 09:09 PM   #27
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If you havnt yet read the foundation series you should. Pretty friggin awesome books by the master, Asimov. I think the whole series is something like 30 books that all intertwine with each other over the course of 50k years, start with I robot (yeh like the movie) and work your way through the second foundation trilogy. The whole series is written by a few different authors and you can easily tell who the better writers are, but thay are all still awesome books
I haven't read asimov since high school, all I remember is that he was DRY. I vastly preferred heinlien
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Ben Bova's books are good too...
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Old 07-29-2010, 02:17 PM   #29
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I just put the Kindle app on my Droid X the other night....it's completely transformed the device for me. I mean, I was addicted before with the amazing browsing ability (why they don't allow folders within bookmarks is puzzling though) but now....books on demand? And that HUGE screen on which to read them? It's the fucking BOMB.
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Let me know cause I want to get one of those things (not sure which brand) for Uma for a present.
Amazon just announced the 6" kindle in the graphite color to be released in august (27th I think).. without 3g, it's $139, with 3g it's $189. boyfriend has a kindle, I steal it from him every chance I get
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