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[Jane]

I need to get ready to do a few morning errands which need to be done by 9:00.

[Ginny]

I think it is always best to call and check on the status before stopping to pick them up.  It saves a wasted stop and makes sure they have the order in their queue.

Yes, I called this morning.  I was afraid someone at the doctor's office had forgotten to press SEND after entering the prescriptions into their computer.  That's happened before - but not this time.

[Matthew]

Good Morning!

[Matthew]

Posting before noon... go know

[Matthew]

But I have nothing much to say. 

[Matthew]

Other than I don't read as much as I'd like. 

[John G.]

Good morning, all.

[John G.]

TOD:

I had a Nook but got rid of it. I just didn't enjoy using it.

But now I have Nook and Kindle on my phone. I don't know typefaces all that well, but I prefer a serif to a sans serif when I'm reading a book, electronic or physical.

[John G.]

Christiane Noll is going to be singing with the symphony next weekend, and I'll have to miss it as I'm out of town. Bummer.

[Jane]

I think it is always best to call and check on the status before stopping to pick them up.  It saves a wasted stop and makes sure they have the order in their queue.

Yes, I called this morning.  I was afraid someone at the doctor's office had forgotten to press SEND after entering the prescriptions into their computer.  That's happened before - but not this time.

I usually call on the way home from the doctor to see when if it will be ready to stop and pick it up.

[Jane]

TOD:

I had a Nook but got rid of it. I just didn't enjoy using it.

But now I have Nook and Kindle on my phone. I don't know typefaces all that well, but I prefer a serif to a sans serif when I'm reading a book, electronic or physical.

I can understand why.  I like the ability to change the print size.  So many paper books today have small, light print which is difficult to see.

[Jrand74]

50 MPH wind gusts predicted for my area tomorrow....and temps in the 60's!  I'll take it.

[George]

MY ENTERTAINER QUOTE OF THE DAY:


"When I sing, people shut up."


ANY GUESSES DRS???

Ethel Merman?  It's just a guess.  I didn't look it up.

[bk]

I'm up, I'm up - I guess I almost got eight hours of sleep.

[bk]

CreateSpace is not Kindle and vice versa.  All you do when you use create space is what you'd do if you didn't use CreateSpace - upload that document to Kindle.  That's how it works.  I did Welcome to My World via CreateSpace and it's perfect - what I previewed on Kindle was not and it was the CreateSpace document.  Word and Kindle are not happy bed partners.  I read up on it last night.  If, for example, you tab over for your paragraph indentations, which everyone on the planet does, it doesn't like that, hence the paragraph indentations are wonky, at least in the preview version.  You're supposed to set up the tab over before you write so it's done without using the tab button, but I couldn't figure out how to do that, frankly.   

Also, I'm told that every Kindle device and every eReader is different and will display differently depending on the person's settings and preferences.  So, while it may look wonky in preview it may not on an actual Kindle.  Then I read an article by someone who's "mastered" the art of Kindle, but her books look NOTHING like books and I don't like that.  But that's what Kindle is - it's a text flow and you can't think in conventional book design terms.  The ideal Kindle presentation is just text - no fonts, no centering chapter headings - it's nutty to me and not a world I care to be in.  I will continue trying to figure out how to set the paragraph tab so I don't have to tab and then I'll see if that helps - because everything else is fine on the preview Kindle.  I've done a save as so I won't hurt what's there now and can go right back to it.

[John G.]

MY ENTERTAINER QUOTE OF THE DAY:


"When I sing, people shut up."


ANY GUESSES DRS???

Ethel Merman?  It's just a guess.  I didn't look it up.

Mine would be, "When I sing, people flee in terror."

[Kate]

Regarding Quote of the day:

DR George, Good guess, but it is not correct.

Try again and thanks for playing!!!

Thanks also John G for your funny comment!!!

[Kate]

Heres a hint regarding my quote of the day:


This person has many other talents!!!

[Jane]

MY ENTERTAINER QUOTE OF THE DAY:


"When I sing, people shut up."


ANY GUESSES DRS???

Ethel Merman?  It's just a guess.  I didn't look it up.

Mine would be, "When I sing, people flee in terror."

When I sing people tell me to shut up.

[elmore3003]

Hime from City Center.  No check, no referral.

I called my HMO and was told the referral had never been sent. The nice young lady told me she would fax it to West Side Radiology. She did and I will go in tomorrow morning for my hip X-ray. So, why the fat hell did the moron in the referrals dept. on Tuesday give me a lot of inaccurate crap?

[Jane]

I don't know about the Kindle, however, the last eBook I read from my library did not have any chapters.  Sometimes the books can be a bit screwy.

[elmore3003]

My sister-i-law Jo loves her Kindle so I got one for Christmas several years ago.  I hate it. Give me a book, a bound book with pages, preferably with a sewn binding.

[George]

I don't know about the Kindle, however, the last eBook I read from my library did not have any chapters.  Sometimes the books can be a bit screwy.

Weird!  I've never had any book like that.  I have a Kindle Keyboard (originally called the Kindle, 3rd Generation), and I read a lot of books on it.  I still buy a few physical books (like BK's), but the Kindle is more convenient because I usually read when I eat, so I don't have to use one hand to hold the book open (especially if it's a small paperback that CAN'T stay open on its own) and try to eat with a knife and fork with one hand...that doesn't work, at all.

[George]

I'm not too picky about what font is used, but I don't like the font to be too big or too small.  A co-worker of mine has a program to convert other kinds of e-books to epub (I think) and makes EVERYTHING she reads on her tablet match the way she wants them.  Even if they're perfectly normal, if the book font isn't to her liking, she can change them.  That's a bit too anal-retentive, even for me.

[Jane]

I don't know about the Kindle, however, the last eBook I read from my library did not have any chapters.  Sometimes the books can be a bit screwy.

Weird!  I've never had any book like that.  I have a Kindle Keyboard (originally called the Kindle, 3rd Generation), and I read a lot of books on it.  I still buy a few physical books (like BK's), but the Kindle is more convenient because I usually read when I eat, so I don't have to use one hand to hold the book open (especially if it's a small paperback that CAN'T stay open on its own) and try to eat with a knife and fork with one hand...that doesn't work, at all.

It is much easier to use the treadmill with an eBook.

[Jane]

I'm not too picky about what font is used, but I don't like the font to be too big or too small.  A co-worker of mine has a program to convert other kinds of e-books to epub (I think) and makes EVERYTHING she reads on her tablet match the way she wants them.  Even if they're perfectly normal, if the book font isn't to her liking, she can change them.  That's a bit too anal-retentive, even for me.

I rarely take the time to change the font.  I'm more likely to make it larger, especially when I am on the treadmill.

[Druxy]

CreateSpace is not Kindle and vice versa.  All you do when you use create space is what you'd do if you didn't use CreateSpace - upload that document to Kindle.  That's how it works.  I did Welcome to My World via CreateSpace and it's perfect - what I previewed on Kindle was not and it was the CreateSpace document.  Word and Kindle are not happy bed partners.  I read up on it last night.  If, for example, you tab over for your paragraph indentations, which everyone on the planet does, it doesn't like that, hence the paragraph indentations are wonky, at least in the preview version.  You're supposed to set up the tab over before you write so it's done without using the tab button, but I couldn't figure out how to do that, frankly.   

Also, I'm told that every Kindle device and every eReader is different and will display differently depending on the person's settings and preferences.  So, while it may look wonky in preview it may not on an actual Kindle.  Then I read an article by someone who's "mastered" the art of Kindle, but her books look NOTHING like books and I don't like that.  But that's what Kindle is - it's a text flow and you can't think in conventional book design terms.  The ideal Kindle presentation is just text - no fonts, no centering chapter headings - it's nutty to me and not a world I care to be in.  I will continue trying to figure out how to set the paragraph tab so I don't have to tab and then I'll see if that helps - because everything else is fine on the preview Kindle.  I've done a save as so I won't hurt what's there now and can go right back to it.

As I believe I said: I've sold MANY books on Kindle, mostly stage and screenplays, and I've never had one complaint.

 (Knock wood!)

I just convert my Word document to the htm format and upload.

[John G.]

My sister-i-law Jo loves her Kindle so I got one for Christmas several years ago.  I hate it. Give me a book, a bound book with pages, preferably with a sewn binding.

Do you want to have to cut your own pages, too?

[John G.]

This is a Thursday that feels like a Monday.

[John G.]

I have been very good today. My Girl Scout cookie order came in and I haven't opened a single box. That's three boxes of Thin Mints.