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

shawn wrote:

On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 09:41:32 -0500, Nyssa <Nyssa@LogicalInsight.net>
wrote:
 

shawn wrote:
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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.

 

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.

The guy who develops Calibre should get a Nobel Prize.
>
The issue with the friend-purchased gift ebooks was ALL amazon's
piss poor programming that refused to allow me to access the
gifted ebooks at all even via their website. Probably similar
to the problem anim is having with amazon's Audible.
>
Nyssa, who could never fit all of the ebooks she has into her
house if they were real dead tree books, so loves her Kindles
a whole big bunch

 
Sure, I have more than enough dead tree books. I would need a house
the size of THE ONE if I wanted to convert everything into real dead
tree books. (It was the most expensive home (at least at listing time)
in Los Angeles and certainly among the biggest in that area. )

I still buy dead tree books, but those are usually reference or
instructional books like cookbooks, atlases, and knitting books.
I find really terrific cookbooks in near-mint condition at a Friends
of Library sale in the Big City too.

Nyssa, who has a small house with lots of bookshelves and lots
of stacks of books that overflow the shelves plus boxes of books
in the archives aka attic