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Post by johntpenca on Aug 23, 2019 11:46:49 GMT -8
First time weighing in on this thread. My brother is a fairly prominent anesthesiologist (guess I missed that gene). When he first graduated, he bought a modest, but nice, home in a suburb of DFW. Once his practice started booming he had a McMansion built. Asked him why he didn't stay in the old house as it had everything he needed. Plus he is not particularly materialistic by nature. His reply was something to the effect that in his position it was expected by his peers. He hates that house now but the wife doesn't want to move.
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Post by swiftdream on Aug 23, 2019 13:28:06 GMT -8
swiftdream , first, a question about your avatar. Is it Native American made? It looks to be that way, even perhaps from an Arctic area. I've been admiring it for some time. Here is the larger version. This stuff litters the ground and was so thick I could not step without walking on some in places. There are more than one site and the terrain is stunning too. I don’t post images with horizon much any more so folks with certain abilities can’t track us. And if you like cats, they had those too, lions at least. This looks like am cat’s paw to me. Again, the fantastic designs are everywhere. we love the place and the navigational challenges it poses.
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Post by reuben on Aug 23, 2019 13:35:38 GMT -8
He hates that house now but the wife doesn't want to move. Fancy things can be a trap if one becomes addicted to them.
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Post by driftwoody on Aug 23, 2019 15:17:19 GMT -8
He who dies With the most toys Does not win.
Wrong game Shallow joys Personal sin
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Post by johntpenca on Aug 23, 2019 16:47:59 GMT -8
Fancy things can be a trap if one becomes addicted to them. His wife has lived her entire life within 15 miles of where their house is. To her it is home, where their daughters grew up, etc. For her it is more about sentimentalism and reluctance to change. He would rather downsize and get out of the DFW megaplex now that he is about to retire.
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Post by autumnmist on Aug 23, 2019 18:38:54 GMT -8
swiftdream , you are REALLY tempting me now. I have a massive tome with the complete works of Shakespeare, which I remember carrying back and forth to class. London's books are someplace in the basement library, probably getting mildewed by now, along with all my textbooks that I wanted to save and books I bought for retirement reading, which raises another issue. Can my existing books be scanned in to be stored on disc? What about magazines? I have a large collection of woodworking and knitting patterns in magazines that I'd love to save. And thanks for the information, which I'll read again to make sure I understand everything. Right now I'm in love with Fall. One of the neighbors must be using his/her fireplace, and the fragrance of burning wood on a cool night crept through the open windows, lulling me into a reflective mood and thoughts of rustling through the leaves which I think are going to be falling quite soon.
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Post by rebeccad on Aug 23, 2019 21:08:30 GMT -8
Right now I'm in love with Fall. One of the neighbors must be using his/her fireplace, and the fragrance of burning wood on a cool night crept through the open windows, You have just made me very envious. Still several weeks, at least, of all-day-and-half-the-night AC.
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Post by autumnmist on Aug 24, 2019 8:01:02 GMT -8
rebeccad , not to make you more envious, but perhaps to provide the anticipation of relief: the house chilled down so much that I had to get a blanket! It was so comfy, so relaxing. I'm almost ready to switch to sweats; it's still chilly in the house. I greeted this morning with my usual mail check and standing outside for a few minutes just to bask in the cool weather. I noticed that one of the deciduous shrubs had lost about 1/3 of its leaves, just from yesterday. The winds weren't aggressive though. I had planned to clip branches from that shrub to use in my to-be-built wattle fence. I guess that's not a good plan anymore. I'm sending cooler thoughts your way. (Now, where is my little wind cloud emoji???)
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Post by swiftdream on Aug 24, 2019 11:22:39 GMT -8
Autumnist autumn is a good 7 weeks away in this vicinity and usually comes about the middle of October but your words are enough for now, just beautiful.
I have not scanned any books and get them either from discount sites like Amazon Kindle deals, Early Bird or Book Bub. Project Gutenberg has countless books in the public domain that you can download in many formats. A service called Delphi Classics has many tomes of complete works for 2 or 3 bucks and they are very well formatted and edited. I too have Shakespeare’s complete works on my Apple Books app and as you may imagine it is heavily highlighted.
A few reference books I’ve found on sale are Southwest Foraging with many very good photos and several amazing cookbooks, one of which I’ll use tonight as it is my turn. The possibilities are endless and with Overdrive and an account at you local library that expands those possibilities vastly. You just check out a book right in your easy chair at home.
I do think the e-ink displays of the dedicated readers like Kindle and Nook are best in any light but iPads have the dazzling Retina display and are great inside a house or tent so they are worth a look to if you have a place to look at all readers and tablets. I found iPads superior to other tablets. I only buy on sale. Really try to get some hands and eyes on. With a reader you do just that but an iPad can do a whole lot more. My electric toothbrush broke yesterday so I just ordered another at a good price right on my iPad that will get here later today. Oops, there is that electric subject again.
You can carry a couple hundred books with you at all times easy or like Gabby, several thousand no problem!
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Post by autumnmist on Aug 24, 2019 13:46:47 GMT -8
swiftdream , you've raised a lot of issues which I haven't yet answered, but I've just thought of another possibility, something that's been mulling around in my mind since you mentioned Blake. You seem to be quite knowledgeable about good literature and I'm assuming what I'd consider good art. Are you familiar with the Dover coloring books? Before you laugh, I have several with Mucha's art, lighthouses, WWII planes, flowers, herbs, geographic scenes. They're high quality art for coloring, certainly not of the DaVinci category, but not a typical "coloring book." I copy them, sometimes enlarge, then print them, and use them in cards or other artwork. I've just checked and see they are available in e-form. Printing from an eReader or comparable device would be cheaper than buying the books and copying them at FedEx. I used to make all my own stationery and some cards this way. (Sometimes I'm stricken by the Martha Stewart syndrome). Mucha: doverpublications.ecomm-search.com/search?keywords=alphonse+muchaI have several of these. (and I see they're available in e form). National Parks, nature: store.doverpublications.com/0486278328.htmlThe other possibility is music scores, which I sometimes have to also take to FedEx and enlarge. With these, though, the issue would be of scale b/c some scores are only available in full score. So, are there printing options in your eReaders by which music scores could be printed out in larger type? Also, you might be interested in these eBooks for only $.79: store.doverpublications.com/by-subject-ebooks.htmlThere are some classics, including Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, and more.
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Post by swiftdream on Aug 24, 2019 14:33:29 GMT -8
I just found a way to highlight and create a note that you can add text to right in the Kindle app, fast and easy. I don’t know if it is the same in a Kindle e-reader but I bet it might be. They have many different Kindles to choose from and some have backlighting. Some are quite inexpensive. I do like their ebook selling model and availability. Dover has long been a precious resource and I still have one paper book from that publishing house though I can’t see it well enough to read it. There are ways to do wireless printing from an iPad but I don’t know if you can do it from a book graphic and don’t know about other devices. There are coloring apps but I’ve never used them. I do all my photo editing on the iPad now and keep all the photos organized in albums too. You can draw and my latest iPad supports the Apple Pencil but I don’t have that. I can draw fine lines with a fingertip though so expedient field sketches are possible on that and the iPhone. Also check Project Gutenberg for countless free ebooks and many of those 79¢ books on Dover are free there. www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_PageI’ve read a bunch of the classics from that source. It is amazing. Again I don’t know about printing in dedicated e-readers and only know that some is possible wirelessly from iPads but never have done any, keep everything digital now. I don’t know if doing that with music scores is possible.
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