Yea, you could also write to Oprah :-)
Coffee Break # 19 - Happy Equinox!
Is she giving them away?
She is a big advocate of Kindle. It was one of her xmas favorite things. Also, when the new model came out she practically did a whole show on it. I don't think she wants anyone to be without one :-)
Cool. She can send one here anytime. Barnes & Noble is coming out with one. I think Sony has one too. Have you tried a Kindle, Joyce?
No, I havent, but would like to see one in person before I bought it. Sounds like a way to get rid of some of these bookshelves that are warping my floors:-) But I like actual books too much to stop buying them altogether. Especially out-of-print oldies. That musty smell turns me on.
Sounds like we're a match! I have said the same thing - I love that smell. They should add a feature to the Kindle that puts out that smell.
I have started collecting books as an investment and the old ones really smell great!
YOU TOO!!! What are you collecting? I used to sell books on ebay, boy do I have some stories.
I think my most lucrative have been childrens books.
I like books just to read. I really don't see myself stock to a screen all day. Can't see them while lying on my back either, listening to music & reading.
Mostly literary classics - Dickens, Hemingway, Twain, Steinbeck, etc. All first editions, most are first printings. Kids stuff is great - many are really expensive. I saw a pristine copy of Pooh in a store in Boston. Was $7000!
Wow. You have some great ones. You must have been at this a while because those are hard to find, affordably anyway. .
Have you read Nicholas Basbanes "A Gentle Madness"?
About three years now. It helps that my friend is a dealer!
No - never read that.
Ah,connections help. I would recommend that book for serious collectors. Basbanes is a genius. Love him.
My fav books as a child were Enid Blyton adventure series---I remember Mountain Of Adventure, River of Adventure---then my mind blanks.
Afraid that I loved Black Beauty. I still have my mother's copy. Not a first edition, but a very early one with black & white illustrations.
My sis was at an estate sale and you know how they have boxes of books you can't look thru them you just get what you buy? When she got home and started looking thru...1st edition Winnie the Pooh.
Wow! Wish that would happen to me. Does she still have it?
I think so. She was trying to find info on how much she could get for it.
very cool Jen.. good for her!!!
more videos
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Let me know how much your electric bill is this month.....
I don't think about it when I pay it... just click pay amount... I figured the wood stove is making up for our electric bill between now and december
Excellent light show Allison!
very cute!!
LOL GE, Loved that video!
ROBINDOG--a BBC movie is supposed to be out this year on Enid Blyton. Sounds great, she had an interesting life.
I loved Black Beauty too.
Cute video.
Dont cha love how everyone slowly left the place?
Ha, Yea. I was thinking, this guy is bad for business.
There is no privacy anymore.
What makes people think everyone wants to listen to their krapp.?
man I am crabby today
Not crabby, just right about that. I am always staying away from folks with phones because you never know if they are taking your picture or what.
Also it took me a while to realize people walking around talking to themselves were not crazy, but using earphones. Most of them anyway :)
I'm bored.
Me too flowerjen. Let's have a snowball fight ^_^
ok...but I have no snow...
http://www.gamesforwork.com/games/play-11596-Ultimate_Snowball_Fight-Flash_Game
Thanks, Joy, for the info on Enid Blyton---I'll be on the lookout. What was so interesting in that guy's conversation? Maybe it was a stakeout! I, too, loved Black Beauty---all the horse books----was very mad at my parents for not getting me a horse---now, of course, I'll bug my son to get one for my grandkids.
Bought my first horse when I was 30 & 8 months pregnant. Long suffering husband. Where I lived when I was growing up, town was zoned 'no horses'. It would have to have been boarded in another town & parents could not afford that. As a result until I took riding lessons when I was 11, I had an imaginary horse named Mohawk who went everywhere with me.
Tee hee I have a decided advantage in our snowball fight flowerjen. The puter game is fun although the penguin isn't very good. I whopped him ^_^ WOWSER 38 months is a long pregnancy irisMA! An imaginary horse sounds like a great playmate. I had an imaginary witch named 'Cackles'. Moo says I was a tad abnormal as a child (big surprise).
Should read 8 months pregnant. Type? I will have to check.
30 yrs old. Children with imaginary friends, witches, horses etc. are intelligent or just wishing for situations.
DN, you crack me up!
I have a friend named Roxanne...
I forgot about Roxanne!
I used to love Enid Blighton, although I can't remember anything she wrote. Who wrote National Velvet?