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Started by Spooky, November 14, 2008, 11:25:28 AM

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TinkTanker

#100
May 08, 2009, 08:13:37 AM Last Edit: May 08, 2009, 09:15:23 AM by TinkTanker
Quote from: Saxon on May 08, 2009, 01:38:55 AM
Gingi has 'misplaced' her ipod (we still have tons of boxes, bags, and stacks of her junk from the move back)...and she wants to get the 'touch' too. If she finds out it doubles as a book, look out!

It is more like a mini-computer than an iPod. You can watch videos, view pictures, read books, listen to audiobooks, play games, surf the internet, send & receive email, and tons more stuff. Last night while we at the ER, Ann played Bejeweled, Yahtzee, bowling, and read her latest Harry Dresden book. And the cool thing about the ebook reader is you can choose the font, the font size, background color and text color. So if you like yellow letters on a black background or blue letters on a white background or whatever, you can do that. It remembers where you left off, you can view it horizontally or vertically, to flip a page you slide your finger across. To flip back, slide the other way. Very cool.

Plus it is backlit.  :deadhorse:

ETA: Oh, and you can listen to music on it as well.
"Is this how time normally passes? Really slowly, in the right order?"

Eric

#101
May 08, 2009, 09:13:42 AM
When we got Pearl's, I couldn't stop playing with it (even though it was her gift -- lol ). IMHO, it's one of those 21st Century things we'd been promised.  Now I'm just waiting for my flying car.

BTW, Tink, does the LCD bother her eyes at all?  I had read that might be one drawback vs something like the Kindle.

Spooky

#102
May 26, 2009, 03:27:33 PM
And I'm thinking you weren't burdened with an overabundance of schooling.

Eric

#103
May 26, 2009, 03:32:03 PM
And it looks backlit!  :haha:

Saxon

#104
June 14, 2009, 08:08:07 AM
too many expensive toys out there!

TinkTanker

#105
July 23, 2009, 02:18:41 PM
"Is this how time normally passes? Really slowly, in the right order?"

Eric

#106
July 23, 2009, 02:22:15 PM
What are you talking about?  1984 was never on your Kindle.

(shamelessly stolen from a Volokh poster)

Yep.  I won't be buying a Kindle.  I really should rethink my Amazon policy while I'm at it.

TinkTanker

#107
June 29, 2010, 10:02:37 AM
Well, after all the grief I gave Spooky, I went and bought Ann a Kindle this weekend. She loves reading, she loves reading on her iPod Touch but she was complaining about her eyes being strained by the end of the day. Anyway, it does not do everything but it does what it was designed to do very well indeed.
"Is this how time normally passes? Really slowly, in the right order?"

Spooky

#108
June 29, 2010, 10:09:30 AM
Quotebut it does what it was designed to do very well...

And I'm thinking you weren't burdened with an overabundance of schooling.

TinkTanker

#109
June 29, 2010, 10:14:46 AM
Now if I can just get it to synch those books that fell off the internet and landed on her Kindle and iPod...
"Is this how time normally passes? Really slowly, in the right order?"
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