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Finished "The Illustrated Man" last night. Just flipping through the current issue of black belt magazine until I make it to the local library tomorrow.

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So did you like it - Illustrated Man?

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Originally Posted by Donna Brown:
So did you like it - Illustrated Man?

Yes, loved it!

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In a video in another thread, the book titled The Way of the Superior Man was shown. I've read it and it's actually a pretty good book, but I think maybe the title could have been better worded. It's not at all about male grandiosity & superiority; it's more about, well, guys growing up (I know, fun, right?). I was really very skeptical about it before I got it based on who suggested it to me. Let's just say he measures up really very well on Robert Hare's "Check list". But once I finished reading it, I felt it could be a great help to some - in a good way, and a great help to those few others (Keeping in mind Robert Hare) in a bad way. Anywho, for those who enjoy self-help sorta books, I think this'd be a great read

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Tired of ordering books from Amazon and having to wait til they get here.... or driving to Reno to buy them..... so I ordered my Kindle yesterday (Ralph got his for Christmas and loves it!)

Ralph's Kindle has the 3G built in.... I ordered mine without it..... hoping I can use my Verizon Wireless WiFi..... they said it will work!

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Originally Posted by Jann Morrison Kostka:
Tired of ordering books from Amazon and having to wait til they get here.... or driving to Reno to buy them..... so I ordered my Kindle yesterday (Ralph got his for Christmas and loves it!)

Ralph's Kindle has the 3G built in.... I ordered mine without it..... hoping I can use my Verizon Wireless WiFi..... they said it will work!

I'm looking forward to seeing how you like this  

Me and a friend have toyed around with getting these for quite a while now and I've always had cold feet - so to say - about these. But like you, I don't like waiting for books either. And the only way I've found to beat that is to have about 20 books waiting to be read at all times. This is silly, but if I'm down to 10 unread books, I get the heebie geebies until I've placed my next order. But that instant download thing on the Kindle sure seems handy if there's a book you really really really really really (really?) want/need right now.

One thing I dig about the kindle is that Amazon archives your purchased books so that if you had to replace your kindle, you don't have to repay for books you already have. And I really dig the Wikipedia feature!

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Outside of technical, science, and math ... geeky stuff ... I usually don't read many books (I watch movies instead).

But now, I'm re-reading something that's been out for a while:  Godel, Escher, and Bach.

Still geeky.  But in a really thought provoking way.  It's about real stuff and get's the mind going in awe of the parallels between these 3 geniuses.

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Originally Posted by Scott Terry:

Outside of technical, science, and math ... geeky stuff ... I usually don't read many books (I watch movies instead).

But now, I'm re-reading something that's been out for a while:  Godel, Escher, and Bach.

Still geeky.  But in a really thought provoking way.  It's about real stuff and get's the mind going in awe of the parallels between these 3 geniuses.

I think we have a little in common. There was a point in time where the only books I'd read were computer tech manuals. If it wasn't about computer program, hardware tech, or software manuals, then i simply wasn't interested. And if I'd try reading something different, I could see my superficial mind reading through the words, but the more conscious part of me was clearly somewhere else. I'm glad I outgrew that!

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The Greatest Speeches (at night)
&
Webster's II New Riverside Dictionary (throughout the day)


forget the actual title of the first book but it is just all the great orators through ages
and yes I am strange I read the dictionary like its a book (page by page)

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Started book 2 of a five book series this morning "Infinite insights into Kenpo Karate" by Ed Parker.

(Who, btw was was Elvis Presley's instructor....did you know, that at the time of his death, Elvis was a 6th degree black belt?)

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Originally Posted by Shawn Ishness:

Originally Posted by Jann Morrison Kostka:
Tired of ordering books from Amazon and having to wait til they get here.... or driving to Reno to buy them..... so I ordered my Kindle yesterday (Ralph got his for Christmas and loves it!)

Ralph's Kindle has the 3G built in.... I ordered mine without it..... hoping I can use my Verizon Wireless WiFi..... they said it will work!

I'm looking forward to seeing how you like this  

Me and a friend have toyed around with getting these for quite a while now and I've always had cold feet - so to say - about these. But like you, I don't like waiting for books either. And the only way I've found to beat that is to have about 20 books waiting to be read at all times. This is silly, but if I'm down to 10 unread books, I get the heebie geebies until I've placed my next order. But that instant download thing on the Kindle sure seems handy if there's a book you really really really really really (really?) want/need right now.

One thing I dig about the kindle is that Amazon archives your purchased books so that if you had to replace your kindle, you don't have to repay for books you already have. And I really dig the Wikipedia feature!

One thing I don't like about books.... finding room for them. And I tend to hang on to them....

Like you I buy several books at a time..... just read my last one.... so I'm anxious to get the Kindle. I figure if Ralph likes it (he doesn't do computers), then I should to.....

By the way.... Amazon.com and Borders can download books to your computer.....

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Originally Posted by Jann Morrison Kostka:
One thing I don't like about books.... finding room for them. And I tend to hang on to them....

Like you I buy several books at a time..... just read my last one.... so I'm anxious to get the Kindle. I figure if Ralph likes it (he doesn't do computers), then I should to.....

By the way.... Amazon.com and Borders can download books to your computer.....

So far, there's really only one feature I'd really very much want that the Kindle doesn't do: Text Highlighting. But that's only with nonfiction books. I didn't know you could DL to a PC though. But then when I'm reading, I prefer to get laid up in my couch all comfy like  

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Originally Posted by Shawn Ishness:

Originally Posted by Jann Morrison Kostka:
One thing I don't like about books.... finding room for them. And I tend to hang on to them....

Like you I buy several books at a time..... just read my last one.... so I'm anxious to get the Kindle. I figure if Ralph likes it (he doesn't do computers), then I should to.....

By the way.... Amazon.com and Borders can download books to your computer.....

So far, there's really only one feature I'd really very much want that the Kindle doesn't do: Text Highlighting. But that's only with nonfiction books. I didn't know you could DL to a PC though. But then when I'm reading, I prefer to get laid up in my couch all comfy like  

I tried reading from my laptop, but it was too easy to go back to FB and get distracted!

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It has been some light reading for me lately. The Federalist Papers. After that it will be the Anti-Federalist Papers.

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Letters of a woman homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart

(on my Kindle!)

(and it's a free book!!)