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[blybrook PE]

Is there an EB book club? seems like there should be a book club.

It's all code books and reference manuals; not that good for everyday reading. 

 

[JayKay PE]

If your library uses Libby (which is the same company as Overdrive) you can checkout books on Libby and send to your Kindle. I would have guessed that Overdrive would have the same feature? Reading on a Kindle is WAY better than reading on a phone. And a refurbished Paperwhite is ~$100, so significant but reasonable if you're going to use it.

Yeah, overdrive = libby to me.  I actually HAAAAATE using my kindle to read my books.  It's a pain to send the books/download them, and I can't easily download more books (I mean, if I have to go on Libby to return/download a book, I might as well just keep reading on my phone).  I have an older Kindle that still works, so i refuse to get a new one, but I hate the three-step process to get books on the device.  AKA: JK is lazy and would rather consume books as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Plus overdrive lets me read books as a webpage.

 

[frazil]

Finished reading 'Ready Player One'.  I really enjoyed it, but you could tell it was a YA novel...It had so much build up and then the last...I want to say forth or fifth of the book was very quick paced, glossed over some details, and was just like, "And they won! *trumpets playing in background*".  I def could have gone for another 100+ pages fleshing out that back half.

Re-reading an old book that I read when I was younger that I remember liking (but cannot remember the plot at all).  Should be a good time.

I think YA is about my attention span right now.  Luckily my 13yo daughter hit the library just before it closed and brought home a whole pile of them! 

I thought Ready Player One was super entertaining, and Gen-Xers especially appreciate all the 80's references.  Very relevant now.

I just finished Magpie Murders.  It was good. A murder mystery. But a little hard for me to get into in the beginning with everything else going on.

 

[LyceeFruit PE]

I've found having Overdrive has made it way easier for me.  Yeah, I have to read it on my phone, but it makes me feel better reading it when in bed or waiting between meetings, or even at a coffee shop.  I also has given me way more bookcase space, since I got rid of a ton of paperbacks I was hoarding.

I have plenty of physical books to read. When I moved in with Boyfriend, I get rid of a bunch of books. But I also keep some boxed up in the attic. I am my mother's daughter. 

 

[JayKay PE]

I have plenty of physical books to read. When I moved in with Boyfriend, I get rid of a bunch of books. But I also keep some boxed up in the attic. I am my mother's daughter. 

When I did the half-country journey, I left whatever books I kept behind.  My mother has bemoaned this and complained about the multiple boxes numerous times since then.

 

[LyceeFruit PE]

When I did the half-country journey, I left whatever books I kept behind.  My mother has bemoaned this and complained about the multiple boxes numerous times since then.

I have almost nothing at my mother's house. 

I had American Girl dolls there that they wanted gone. And I was going to give my used & well-loved American Girl dolls away to the electrician for their kid. AND OH BOY. That was unacceptable since they're expensive. And I'm like "It's 20 years old..." So in protest my grandmother set it up on display in the house... Giving it away to a child who wanted one was not allowed, even though they were 20yr old dolls and had been packed up for 10years at that point. I was so annoyed. I told them to do whatever they wanted with whatever else of mine they found, I didnt care. SINCE APPARENTLY what I wanted to do wasn't acceptable. 

 

[RBHeadge PE]

an entire day of telecons! 

 

[JayKay PE]

I have almost nothing at my mother's house. 

I had American Girl dolls there that they wanted gone. And I was going to give my used & well-loved American Girl dolls away to the electrician for their kid. AND OH BOY. That was unacceptable since they're expensive. And I'm like "It's 20 years old..." So in protest my grandmother set it up on display in the house... Giving it away to a child who wanted one was not allowed, even though they were 20yr old dolls and had been packed up for 10years at that point. I was so annoyed. I told them to do whatever they wanted with whatever else of mine they found, I didnt care. SINCE APPARENTLY what I wanted to do wasn't acceptable. 

Whereas my dad used me as a secret way of getting rid of my mom's stuff that she kept for too long.  When I lived nearby/closer, my mom would give me stuff to use (like a ton of pots/pans that were reaaaaally old and barely servicable), and my dad gave me blanket permission to donate/get rid of anything I didn't want.  My mom I think suspected it, but she was happy she was 'helping' me.  My dad was happy because more stuff was taken out of the house.

 

[ChebyshevII PE PMP]

Idk what I’m doing

 

[RBHeadge PE]

Idk what I’m doing

welcome to adulthood

 

[Tiger15]

Idk what I’m doing

Fake it 'til you make it

 

[txjennah PE]

I have almost nothing at my mother's house. 

I had American Girl dolls there that they wanted gone. And I was going to give my used & well-loved American Girl dolls away to the electrician for their kid. AND OH BOY. That was unacceptable since they're expensive. And I'm like "It's 20 years old..." So in protest my grandmother set it up on display in the house... Giving it away to a child who wanted one was not allowed, even though they were 20yr old dolls and had been packed up for 10years at that point. I was so annoyed. I told them to do whatever they wanted with whatever else of mine they found, I didnt care. SINCE APPARENTLY what I wanted to do wasn't acceptable. 

American Girl dolls were my childhood! I just had Molly. I wanted all of them! They were so damn expensive...even when I got mine in 1995 (for fifth grade graduation), it was $90!!!

 

[txjennah PE]

Finally completed a major internal deadline for a proposal last night. I'm brain dead and don't want to do anything today buuuuuuuuut I am grateful that I at least have billable work right now.  

 

[JayKay PE]

Yay!  Congrats, @txjennah PE!   One good thing about my work nowadays: I don't have to worry about billable time!

Also...I wish more people would play the count to 100,000 with pictures...I just want to post number pictures.  T_T

 

[frazil]

I just finished a major deadline too.  I had to put 2 powerpoint slides together describing some ongoing research.  What should have taken a couple hours took me an embarrassingly long time. I was brain dead before I started.

 

[Platypus Engineer]

Idk what I’m doing

Dazzle them with brilliance or baffle them with bs

 

[LyceeFruit PE]

American Girl dolls were my childhood! I just had Molly. I wanted all of them! They were so damn expensive...even when I got mine in 1995 (for fifth grade graduation), it was $90!!!

I had Molly, Samantha, and Addy. Poor Molly's hair, she needed a freaking transplant lol.

I also had a Magic Attic doll - similar concept. 

I think Gram's biggest issue was the doll furniture and the clothes. My (now) late great-aunt (Gram's SIL) made me a lot of clothes for the dolls. But it's pure 90s stuff made by a 60yo woman: floral print with lace and/or riffraf on the collars. Epically dated then but very much so now. And it's just like it's rotting away in the attic (which is unfinished so uninsulated from the temperature swings) so let some 5yo have it for free! 

 

[squaretaper LIT AF PE]

Morning SPAMMERS. In the office today SPAM.

 

[ChebyshevII PE PMP]

A little electro-swing makes today a little better.

 

[JayKay PE]

Disappointing.  I just finished the first book in a series and I...just don't want to read the rest of the series/don't care about learning about the rest of the character's arc, which is weird because I love the author's other books so much.  Sad.  Good thing I can just return it and check out another.