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KOLIO
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Samsung Galaxy Tab 2.
Very well used, cracked screen, v4.4.2. Runs and charges. $20
Nice find.
Ain't it cool when all the pieces come together like that.....
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Ain't it cool when all the pieces come together like that.....
^^^Mine's bigger
Looks like a CM-13 for this bad boy too!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-tab-2/7-inch-development/rom-crdroid-t3193579
Looks like a CM-13 for this bad boy too!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-tab-2/7-inch-development/rom-crdroid-t3193579
AZgl1500
Extreme Android User
My Note 4 is dead..... if put on a charger, the phone gets warm, but the battery is dead cold....
so, hoping against hope, I decided to splurge for a new battery and hope that the phone wakes up from the dead.
I have a string tied to my fingers now: Hey Ijit, don't lay your phone on the dashboard of a pickup!
it gets hot up there
New OEM Battery For Samsung Galaxy NOTE 4 IV EB-BN910BBZ/BU 3220mAH AT&T Verizon
so, hoping against hope, I decided to splurge for a new battery and hope that the phone wakes up from the dead.
I have a string tied to my fingers now: Hey Ijit, don't lay your phone on the dashboard of a pickup!
it gets hot up there
New OEM Battery For Samsung Galaxy NOTE 4 IV EB-BN910BBZ/BU 3220mAH AT&T Verizon
Gmash
Extreme Android User
I've liked all of his other books, so I'm pretty sure I'll like this one, too. I'm reading Lolita now, I might get to The Fireman next, but I'll probably read something from my Kindle first. The Fireman is huge so I'll need to carve out a chunk of time for that. I'm not one for reading multiple books at once, I have to concentrate to remember what's going on in one lol.
jhtalisman
Android Enthusiast
Totally understand, took me a little over a month to read it.
Sometimes, good authors get a little long-winded. Like Stephen King and "The Stand". Took me a year. Put it down and swore it off numerous times. Only to pick it up again.
I'd been meaning to get this CD for a long time and kept forgetting. Finally remembered, phew.
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King has written some really excellent stuff, very well crafted stories, but I tried and failed to get into The Dark Tower books. I also had high hopes for 11.22.63, but it was too long, with a fairly predictable ending. Not his best, IMO.
The Dark Tower books were laborious to get through, took me years. lol. I actually just bought Mr. Mercedes for my Kindle, I'll give it a go shortly. Love Stephen King but he's had some trouble with endings over the years (looking at you IT), some great books right up to last three pages. Hate that!
AZgl1500
Extreme Android User
paper books are dead with me. Fonts are so small I can't see them, and so unhandy.
I now only use my old old Kindle Paperwhite.... ( I don't want clutter from new fangled apps )
Why? even if I am only two paragraphs from where I picked it up, and the phone rings, I hit "bookmark" and close it.
it will patiently wait for me to come back, when I want, and pick up where I was.
basic 101 user
Android Enthusiast
Recently purchased a used paperback from Amazon; Overall a very good experience, but a few peculiar anecdotes along the way, largely irrelevant to the overall thread, but oh well.
Not a very good book, questionable historic accuracy, but now a treasured possession...One I will undoubtedly keep; Until a suitable third owner appears!
The book its self is nothing I am proud of.....Not offensive, a historical memoir; But polarizing subject matter and far from high-brow. While I studied quite a few great books under a college English professor I adored, this 'aint that!
I had just moved back to my old home town, and divested myself of 90% of my assets and possessions in so doing. I had no desire to start building another pile, so decided to look for this book in the public library. First, I went to their online service, and verified the book was in the system and available; It was at another branch, but came up immediately, top of the search results, and easily transferred from one branch to another. The very next day, I went to the library in person. First, they set me up with an account....(evidently, if you don't use your previous card for 25 years, you drop out of the system), go figure.
(As an aside to an aside
) I was amused by one of the library rules the assistant librarian saw fit to mention specifically. "If you take one of our books to the beach, please try to return it with a minimum of sand in it." I would have imagined that the rule would be "Please don't take any of our books to the beach, under any circumstances", but they must have realized that's a losing battle, here.
With shiny new card proudly in hand, I (sheepishly) asked a reference librarian about my shameful inquiry. She was very helpful, but (with one slightly raised eyebrow) told me it wasn't in the system. Searched by title, author, subject, key words, ISBN.....Nothing. "It may have been there yesterday, but books are added and deleted from the system regularly, it's just your lucky day!"
So Amazon to the rescue! Didn't want to own it in the first place, don't care to keep it after I have read it, so why not go with the paperback edition.....And why not used, for that matter? Dozens of examples showed up. I am generally skeptical of all the condition descriptions offered, bypassed the inexplicably high priced copies which were presented as "badly damaged, spine broken, many pages missing, etc.", settled on one in "very good used" condition for $1.99 and rolled the dice. When it arrived, I was initially pleasantly surprised, it seemed quite nice. On closer inspection, I was truly elated, I had found the "right" copy!
On opening the front cover, I was presented by a short paragraph, in pencil. In addition to a pointless restatement of all the obvious (Author, title, publication date, ISBN), there was the original owner's full legal name, exact date, cost, and location of purchase...... The weather on that day! All carefully laid out, underlined, embellished with little stars.....on and on.
I began to flip through, page after page.....each and every page number was circled, the lead sentence of each paragraph had a check mark next to it, every chapter heading had stars hand written at the lead and tail end. Big stars for the major headings, little ones for the sub-headings....on and on. I arrived at the very back page, to find......An identical copy of the information offered inside the front cover. I may as well have been Shelley Duvall in "The Shining", the book may as well have said nothing but:
"...allworkandnoplaymakesJackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakesJackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakesJackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakesJackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakesJackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakesJackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakesJackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakeJsackadullboy..."
Recognizing (a hint of (some of) ) these tendencies in my self, I leaped right on the bandwagon.....Composed a similar paragraph of my own and added it to the inner cover, and began to read. With a sense of humor, and a pen in my right hand, following the example of another, fellow whack job!
P.S.....Trust me, the comedy composition of the "J"s is rather striking on my screen, but confident the formatting will change (if and) when you read it, not translate well; Oh well, can only do so much, and only so many thousands of reps before even Jack gets bored.
I had just moved back to my old home town, and divested myself of 90% of my assets and possessions in so doing. I had no desire to start building another pile, so decided to look for this book in the public library. First, I went to their online service, and verified the book was in the system and available; It was at another branch, but came up immediately, top of the search results, and easily transferred from one branch to another. The very next day, I went to the library in person. First, they set me up with an account....(evidently, if you don't use your previous card for 25 years, you drop out of the system), go figure.
(As an aside to an aside) I was amused by one of the library rules the assistant librarian saw fit to mention specifically. "If you take one of our books to the beach, please try to return it with a minimum of sand in it." I would have imagined that the rule would be "Please don't take any of our books to the beach, under any circumstances", but they must have realized that's a losing battle, here.With shiny new card proudly in hand, I (sheepishly) asked a reference librarian about my shameful inquiry. She was very helpful, but (with one slightly raised eyebrow) told me it wasn't in the system. Searched by title, author, subject, key words, ISBN.....Nothing. "It may have been there yesterday, but books are added and deleted from the system regularly, it's just your lucky day!"
So Amazon to the rescue! Didn't want to own it in the first place, don't care to keep it after I have read it, so why not go with the paperback edition.....And why not used, for that matter? Dozens of examples showed up. I am generally skeptical of all the condition descriptions offered, bypassed the inexplicably high priced copies which were presented as "badly damaged, spine broken, many pages missing, etc.", settled on one in "very good used" condition for $1.99 and rolled the dice. When it arrived, I was initially pleasantly surprised, it seemed quite nice. On closer inspection, I was truly elated, I had found the "right" copy!
On opening the front cover, I was presented by a short paragraph, in pencil. In addition to a pointless restatement of all the obvious (Author, title, publication date, ISBN), there was the original owner's full legal name, exact date, cost, and location of purchase...... The weather on that day! All carefully laid out, underlined, embellished with little stars.....on and on.
I began to flip through, page after page.....each and every page number was circled, the lead sentence of each paragraph had a check mark next to it, every chapter heading had stars hand written at the lead and tail end. Big stars for the major headings, little ones for the sub-headings....on and on. I arrived at the very back page, to find......An identical copy of the information offered inside the front cover. I may as well have been Shelley Duvall in "The Shining", the book may as well have said nothing but:
"...allworkandnoplaymakesJackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakesJackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakesJackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakesJackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakesJackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakesJackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakesJackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakeJsackadullboy..."
Recognizing (a hint of (some of) ) these tendencies in my self, I leaped right on the bandwagon.....Composed a similar paragraph of my own and added it to the inner cover, and began to read. With a sense of humor, and a pen in my right hand, following the example of another, fellow whack job!
P.S.....Trust me, the comedy composition of the "J"s is rather striking on my screen, but confident the formatting will change (if and) when you read it, not translate well; Oh well, can only do so much, and only so many thousands of reps before even Jack gets bored.
Gmash
Extreme Android User
I probably read on my Paperwhite 90% of the time, it's easier to see, easier to hold, I don't need to sit by a lamp, and it doesn't take up space, but I still manage to accumulate some physical copies somehow lol. If I want to read something and the paper copy is cheaper, I'll usually get the real book. Like right now I'm reading Lolita, the Kindle version is $11.99. I picked up the Penguin Classics edition in very good condition from Thriftbooks for around $3. I don't know, I still have a mental block about paying that much for a 1MB file on my Kindle. Most of the ebooks I buy are between $1-$3.
Gmash
Extreme Android User
I loved 11-22-63 (and The Stand). I actually thought that was one of his good endings. (The Stand, not so much.)
The Dark Tower, I read the first three and never continued. I doubt I'll ever get around to reading them at this point, I'm not a big fantasy reader anyway.
AZgl1500
Extreme Android User
my family very rarely, ever pays for a book.
My daughter watches her Kindle account like a hawk, and she downloads every free book of the day that comes along.... she has almost 10,000 books in our Prime account, and all of our Kindles are registered under her name.
I will never run out of good books to read.... but, a while back, I got hooked on C.G. Cooper and his Corps Justice series. I actually had to pay for one to finish out the series ( cough cough ).....
and then, my daughter said "Hey dad! for what you paid for that book, we could have just signed up for Kindle Unlimited! so we did....
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Hmmm. Sounds like we might need a "What are you reading" thread. Unless there already is one, tucked away in the annals* of AF.
*This is the correct spelling
*This is the correct spelling
Gmash
Extreme Android User
www.androidforums.com/threads/what-are-you-currently-reading.195386/There's also a Stephen King thread, but what ya gonna do? Off topic is where it's at LOL.
Needed to replace my aging workstation at the office.
Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2 2.1GHz 6-Core processor
16GB DDR3 memory (supports up to 128GB)
480GB SSD for OS and applications
2TB SATA hard drive for file storage
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700
Still haven't decided if I'm going to leave it at Windows 7 Pro or put 10 on it.
That ought to hold me for a while.
Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2 2.1GHz 6-Core processor
16GB DDR3 memory (supports up to 128GB)
480GB SSD for OS and applications
2TB SATA hard drive for file storage
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700
Still haven't decided if I'm going to leave it at Windows 7 Pro or put 10 on it.
That ought to hold me for a while.
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Maybe he set the bar extraordinarily high for me. I really love his early stuff.
As a time travel concept 11-22-63 is really interesting. I sometimes imagine what I'd do if I found my own personal time portal to take me back to an earlier point in my life.
jefboyardee
Extreme Android User
Half price, couldn't resist, sold out now, haven't run it yet.
jefboyardee
Extreme Android User
IT doesn't work either! Actually, it might work, but the HDMI cable connector that came with the included monitor is shaped differently on the monitor than on the PC. They're 'overnighting' a part, which they say will take three days.
Having gone back to my old setup in the 'meantime,' I might just return this new one before the part arrives... seething.
Having gone back to my old setup in the 'meantime,' I might just return this new one before the part arrives... seething.
K
KOLIO
Guest
Aahh, the ol' DVI-I cable for a DVI-D monitor.You can use a DVI-D cable in a DVI-I monitor, but not the other way around.
The ol' Pig & Elephant DNA Splicing Conundrum rears it's ugly head................