er..no it wont. If a bookmark materialised and attached itself with invisible non-damaging glue to a page only when you shut the book and automatically duplicated itself onto other books with the same tenacity and was impossible to lose - then it would be the same
Ive got a Sony Clie with Palm OS on it, very small and light with a 128mb memory stick in it. Its a near perfect machine; always fast, never crashes, weeks of battery life .Originally Posted by beowulf
I also have an MDA with Windows mobile 2003 on it, which is slow, with a poor battery life and prone to crashing. So Ill certainly avoid any windows mobiles OS's in the future, but really, I should know better
I dunno, I like my Ipaq even with All it's flaws. but the thing that gets me the most is ,as you say, poor battery life. I have to charge it daily but then I do use it with WiFi and BlueTooth a lot and they're quite power hungry.
My PDA is my portable brain.. never away from my pocket and I'm totally lost without it. Sad to think when I was younger I used to laugh at all these yuppie types who were lost without their Filofaxes
It reminds me of birthdays and appointments, have a database of all my DVDs on it so when I'm out shopping I don't buy the same one twice, hundreds of contact details and assorted notes, equations, reference tables, Wifi Access point passwords , usernames and passwords for websites, calculators, currency converters, depth of field calculators, exposure calcs, spreadsheets, word docs,Ebooks.. etc etc all in one easy to forget little package number of times I've gone to work and been HOPELESSLY lost because I forgot it is crazy.
and before anyone says about the obvious risk of storing passwords on an easy to lose/pinch device.. it's got biometric fingerprint scanning and a 3rd party strong encryption system I bought. pretty secure..
Yes, I'll admit to that. I certainly wouldn't call myself well-read though. For example, amongst all the Russian and Irish stuff, I've never read Shaw, Beckett, or Tolstoy (beyond a couple of short stories).
Current reading is The Scottish Enlightenment, by Arthur Herman, and Life:A User's Manual (again), by Georges Perec. Go figure.
What my bookcase says about me..........
That I really need to build a new bookcase!!
The books I own tend to fall into various categories:
- Fantasy: David Eddings, Juliet Marrillier, JRR Tolkien, David Gemmell
- Chick Books: Bridget Jones's Diary, Maeve Binchy etc.
- Medical / Diet Books: For work/university
- History Books: Books on Irish History, English History, Irish Famine, General World History
- Classic Books: Rebecca, Wuthering Heights, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Jane Eyre
- Reference Books: Dictionaries, World Atlas, Medical Dictionary etc.
What can I say - I like to read LOTS of books!!!
After learning the bad news about Steve Irwin, this thread can help me to improve my mood (I hope).
On my bookshelves, one can find the following authors and philosophers:
Friedrich Nietzsche (the greatest thinker and philosopher ever and the most profound psychologist ever), Fyodor Dostoevsky (after Nietzsche, the most profound psychologist ever), Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Sergey Dovlatov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; also: Irvine Welsh, Ken Kesey, Jack London, Haruki Murakami, Arthur Conan Doyle, Tolkien, J. D. Salinger, William Golding, Anthony Burgess, William Faulkner, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Franz Kafka, Stephen King; lots of books and dictionaries for learning English, Japanese and French; as I desire to enlist in the Foreign Legion, I have a wonderful book called ‘Le livre d’or de la Legion Etrangere’ by Jean Brunon and Georges Manue; painting books; lots of books about healthy life-style, etc.
By the way, ‘Trainspotting’ by Irvine Welsh and ‘Mein Kampf’ are prohibited in Russia. ‘Trainspotting’ is prohibited by state drug interdiction organisation (or something like that). ‘Mein Kampf’ is prohibited by some state organisation (I don’t know its name). Our ‘incomparable’ politicians seem to begin worrying about the Russians. Where’s the freedom of press? Never mind though…
Fortunately, I had bought ‘Trainspotting’ before it disappeared from book shops. The book is great! I have no idea why it is prohibited.
By the way, titles of the books by Irvine Welsh were translated into Russian very funny. ‘Trainspotting’ was translated as ‘Being on the stuff’, ‘Filth’ was translated as ‘Sh*t’. When some stranger enters my room, he/she, seeing on my bookshelf ‘Being on the stuff’, ‘Porno’ and ‘Sh*t’ by Irvine Welsh, frowns and asks: ‘Are you crazy kink?’ In that case, I must explain him/her that, after William Shakespeare and Arthur Conan Doyle, Irvine Welsh is the greatest British writer ever. With an oracular shake of the head, he/she smiles and, I hope, stop thinking that I am a kink.
So what can my bookshelves say about me? Only one thing: I am crazy まざふぁか.
I have a picture book on the history of the phone booth. What the hell does that say about me?! I dread to think.
My bookshelves say I'm a lousy DIYer
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