"Looking for heaven, found a devil in me."

[greygirlbeast]

0. Comments, please. Prove to me LJ is not dead (again). I'm sick to death of self-fulfilling prophecies. You comment, I'll reply. Cause and effect

Comments

[vulpine137]

Agreed, as much as I like my kindle for portability, it's not a book. It can't been signed by an author, or contain a present from a friend, or smell like a book. It's just a easy way to carry stories with me when I'm out and about, so I don't have to pack the book I'm reading, and a backup book...and oh yeah, I should bring that in case my reading mood changes.

[greygirlbeast]

It's just a easy way to carry stories with me when I'm out and about, so I don't have to pack the book I'm reading, and a backup book...and oh yeah, I should bring that in case my reading mood changes.

I hear this from a lot of people, but I just don't get it. On rare occasions I might leave home with a single book...but even then I only rarely read it. Two? Three? It's just never come up. Well, unless I'm returning library books, or unless we're counting notebooks.

[vulpine137]

I'm a fast reader, and having something to read with me helps keep me sane. Seriously, my anxiety will spike if I'm sans reading material. (I worry about the weirdest things). My bag used to be packed with A. the book I was reading, possibly B. the other book I was reading (Yes, I'm a book slut) and an old collection of HPL stories (for those random "I must read something with the Necronomicon in it" moods). Throw in my laptop for work when I'm on call, and the other assorted foo I carry, and it got heavy. Swap the books for the kindle, and I'm less likely to develop a hunch in my middle years.

[stillsostrange]

Plane trips (or buses or trains) are one of the few places I can read for extended periods anymore. Flying to conventions makes inroads on my to-read pile faster than anything else.

My copy of Two Worlds And In Between was waiting for me when I got home from vacation. It's a beautiful book, and much larger than I'd anticipated.

[wood_dragon]

I like your definition of the Kindle. I don't know how anyone could call one a book. (Sometimes I think of the e-readers as expensive toys ... but that's just me.)

[greygirlbeast]

(Sometimes I think of the e-readers as expensive toys ... but that's just me.)

I don't think it's just you.

[greygirlbeast]

Last time, I went with 2, and came home with 11 more.

See...I might read one book a month.

[greygirlbeast]

People who might normally catch the humor can't on Facebook, because everyone is skimming for quick bites of information rather than taking time to read.

Okay. That explanation makes sense.

(I also hope LJ is not dead.)

Well, so do I. But the world is screaming it is, and everyone's fled to Twitter and FB because it offers that All-American instant gratification and requires almost zero effort. And people say, "Oh, but those are only the people who were never serious about blogging." If only the people who were "serious" about blogging are left here, LJ will cease to turn a profit and fold.

[chris_walsh]

But what really piques me is how Facebook dulls the point. People who might normally catch the humor can't on Facebook, because everyone is skimming for quick bites of information rather than taking time to read.

Interesting theory. I really don't usually find stuff funny on FB, and that's probably because I'm skimming it so fast. (Though Twitter can be hilarious, and I skim that, too. Maybe the humor's encouraged more by the format, since you're always short.)

[jeffreyab]

Is it true you are working on a book about a teenage girl who falls in love with a were-mosasaur?

[greygirlbeast]

Um.

[chris_walsh]

Is it true you are working on a book about a teenage girl who falls in love with a were-mosasaur?

That could be called Jaws of Love! Now I'm picturing the female protagonist gently, lovingly stroking the flipper...