Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-12-14 (Saturday)

anim8rfsk wrote:

shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:

On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 14:44:39 -0500, Nyssa <Nyssa@LogicalInsight.net>
wrote:
 

shawn wrote:
 

On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 09:41:32 -0500, Nyssa

<Nyssa@LogicalInsight.net>

wrote:
 

shawn wrote:
 

On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 12:56:03 -0700, anim8rfsk

<anim8rfsk@cox.net>

wrote:
 

Nyssa <Nyssa@LogicalInsight.net> wrote:

anim8rfsk wrote:
 

Nyssa <Nyssa@LogicalInsight.net> wrote:

anim8rfsk wrote:
 

Nyssa <Nyssa@LogicalInsight.net> wrote:

anim8rfsk wrote:
 

Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

 
I watched:
 
 
What did you watch?

 
Hey, thanks for asking!
 
Nothing
 
 

Uh-oh....something go haywire with the iPad and ear

buds

already?
 
Or was there simply nothing on that was worth the bit-

flow?

 
Nyssa, who is finding that the "nothing on worth

watching"

is the the more likely scenario for her
 
 

 
I can?t get anything current and I?ve been sleeping a lot. I
didn?t think it was worth reporting that I watched a couple
YouTube on videos or something.
 

So the "nothing worth watching" option.
 
Have you considered trying for a few audiobooks via
the ipad or iphone? I isn't flashing pictures on the
screen, but at least it might offer some measure of
entertainment better than nothing.
 
Just an idea.

 
I actually just joined audible and put book suggestions on my
Amazon wish list. As it turns out the system doesn?t work and
people can?t actually send me anything.

 
Yaah, their ebook stuff doesn't work either. I found that out the
hard way when a friend bought several gft ebooks for me, but

amazon

wouldn't let me claim them. (Luckily she *was* able to get her

$$

back.)

 
Have you tried using the Kindle app? With that you can set up an
email address and send ebooks to that address which will then be
automatically added to your list of books on the Kindle. Those can

be

books you've bought (or others bought) on Amazon or DRM free

ebooks

from anywhere. I tested it some time back and it works well enough.

 
The special email address comes with each Kindle shipped. It really
isn't much good at all. I found the only way it would work was to
go to the amazon website and access the Kindle-specific email, then
download it via the website to my computer, then transfer the book

to

whichever Kindle it was DRMed for.  If I wanted it on one of my other
Kindles, I'd have to repeat the process for each Kindle. I haven't
used that method in years.

 
You can download the Kindle app and get a special email address. No
need to buy a Kindle to get the email address. Though I'm sure they
would provide one to anyone buying a Kindle.

 
Shawn, read what I wrote more carefully. I already own three Kindle
eink ereaders (first one purchased in 2012) plus a Kindle Fire tablet
I bought for reading Kindle books heavy with illustrations/color images
(such as history or other non-fiction books with lots of charts, graphs,
and photographs).
 
Each of those Kindles came with its own, linked Kindle email address. I
do not need another one. Nor do I need a Kindle app.

 
LOL. I wasn't suggesting you get one (unless you really need a few
hundred email addresses.) I was addressing the issue for Fred as he
might have read your response as suggesting you needed to own a Kindle
to get the email address. I was just making it clear that if you did
not have a Kindle but did have the application you could still get the
email address and use it to put ebooks into your Kindle app.
 

 

Most of the ebooks I get now are non-amazon epubs that I download
and import into Calibre then convert into Kindle friendly formats. I
sideload whichever I ebooks I want into whichever Kindle I happen
to want to use at the moment (usually my big format DX; it's
3G only with no wifi, so sideloading is the only way to get new
items onto it). No DRM problems to deal with either.

 
Yes, that works but I figured with Anim's current situation talking
about using Calibre wouldn't help him.
 

Apples and oranges. I'm talking ebooks, he's talking audiobooks
from amazon's Audible store. Calibre only does ebook formats.

 
And I'm talking about ebooks too, not audiobooks. I thought he might
enjoy having ebooks to read since the audiobooks aren't working for
him. Unfortunately it looks like the noise surrounding him is a bit
much and interferes with his enjoyment while reading.
 

 
You mean where he has to scream into the phone to make himself heard

over

the full volume TV?
 

Yikes, that really is over-doing it.

Can't someone on the staff convince him to turn it down
to a more reasonable level? (Or, if necessary, pull the plug
on it?)

After all, that place is maant for people who are injured or
sick to get better...and get rest too.

Nyssa, who is beginning to figure out why this guy was
homeless (but wonders why he wasn't put in hospice instead
of a rehab facility if he's terminal)