I started talking almost as soon as I started walking today. I hoped a double length episode would make up for missing a day. In that episode, I mentioned my father and a post I made about him in 2005. He would have been 81 today.
Unfortunately, something went wrong about two minutes into the walk and I recorded 32 minutes of electronic squeal.
I’ve cleaned up and loaded the reading from Tuesday night at the Windham Public Library. It’s a long file — almost an hour and a half — and the “reading” part ended after I did the beginning of Quarter Share. After that everybody wanted to talk about Kindles and publishing and ebooks. Feel free to skip this one.
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Hey Nate, don’t worry about it.
While we appreciate how hard you are trying to get us our daily fix, personally I hope that tommw is something that provides you with some time to work through things you are thinking on. Either solidifying thoughts or helping to get the random cruft out of the way so you can be more productive later.
Tech fail happens unfortunately 🙁
Nate, I really enjoyed the comments and the readings. Some of the points you have been making all along via your morning talks seem to have come out more clearly and in a slightly more cogent manner through the prompting questions of your audience. Thank you for sharing this with us. And… I agree with Laith’s comment (above) 😉
Don’t sweat it about the tech failure as Laith said. I too enjoyed the reading and the QA. I found myself wishing I was in the room to ask a question or two, it sounded fun. I hope you fall into one of your writing binges soon before the withdrawal symptoms leave me with a funny twitch that will scare my family, friends, and co-workers!
Hi Nate,
Thanks for the audio it was a great talk.
Darren
I loved this. I wish I had been there it sounded like you were having a lot of fun. I am glad you had a tech failure you might not have post this otherwise.
Don’t feel bad, this was nice in a different way. I normally turn tommw on when I’m between classes and need something interesting to kill the silence in the library where I study. This sounds more like something I would listen to during my “ponderable podcast” time. I wouldn’t mind seeing more posts like it.
Why would we want to skip this one? I thoroughly enjoyed it and the questions and answers and laughter. I had a busy day and this just fit the bill to sit and relax and listen. Thank you!
Great talk. Thanks for putting it up.
Nook and BeBook have pdf reflow which makes a pdf read like an epub. When I increase the font on a pdf in the BeBook, it automatically goes into reflow. Doesn’t the Kindle have that?
I had an early Cybook for a few years and that did not have pdf reflow. Moving back and forth across the page is troublesome without it.
Kindle’s never flowed a PDF for me. Might be the way the pdf was created. Many PDFs are simply scans of the pages as images and not actual text.
Yes, many pdfs are just images stitched together… and that is about the worst possible use of the format.
Just thinking about this usage makes me shudder.
I’ve not had a chance to listen to the recording from your reading yet. Its in my ipod and I may jump ahead to listen to it, it sounds fun and intesting. 🙂
sigh, I meant *interesting*. not sure why the form submitted. I didn’t hit the button.
PS Hey, Nate, check out the Kindle Fire, coming out Nov. 15th. I have a generation 2 also, so I am going for this one. Yeah!
PPS Be sure to check out the price, too. Double Yeah—–
The attention is on the Kindle Fire – but I honestly don’t think that’s where the major revolution is. That $79 baseline Kindle – now, *THAT* turns things into an interesting game, as that’s into the buy one for the kids and let them take it to school territory. And considering most of the books for English Lit classes are in the public domain, the kid’s reading list can be pre-loaded, including things like The Complete Shakespeare, without significantly reducing the space for the kid’s own chosen reading matter.
Yeah. I agree that this $79 device is the *real* sleeper here.
I’m waiting for Bezos to realize that all he has to do in order to sew up the market is sell a wifi enabled reader for $10 and let Amazon make money from the sale of billions of books.
Aww, you’re bumming me out dissing Robert Jordan. 🙁
How many people were you talking to?
There were about a dozen. Only four weren’t relatives.
And sorry about the Jordan cracks, but the man knew how to pad out the pages. I gave up on the series long ago just because I couldn’t handle the density and delay. Between the years it took between books and the density of the prose, it became untenable for me around book six.
I’ve read the Wheel of Time several times and always end up wanting even more, so the length has never bothered me. Each time I start again I can see the parts that people complain about, but once I get into the story those parts don’t bother me at all. *shrug*
Also, did I hear a Cape Grace spoiler in there?
Skip this reading and discussion ? I wanted to be there ! That was so much fun to listen to. And I got to hear some nice Maine accents. 😉
I enjoyed it immensely! I never seem to have the opportunity to attend events like this one, partly because they always happen hundreds of miles from where I live. Such a pleasure to be able to “sit in” on one!