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JPJonesParticipantRelevant to heating the pool using “solar”, my grandfather, who grew up during the depression, had an interestingly cheap way to heat his pool. He bought a black garden hose and ran it from the pool pump around the back yard through areas exposed to direct sunlight, then back into the pool. He’d let it run at a trickle during the day and we never saw the pool go below 75 F, even during the winter.
June 12, 2010 at 2:30 PM in reply to: Threadjackers Will Be Persecuted (Maybe Even Prosecuted) #563420JPJonesParticipantWait, does this mean I can start reading the message boards on this site again without getting constantly blindsided by political opinion?
It’s a christmas miracle! -=D
June 12, 2010 at 2:30 PM in reply to: Threadjackers Will Be Persecuted (Maybe Even Prosecuted) #563517JPJonesParticipantWait, does this mean I can start reading the message boards on this site again without getting constantly blindsided by political opinion?
It’s a christmas miracle! -=D
June 12, 2010 at 2:30 PM in reply to: Threadjackers Will Be Persecuted (Maybe Even Prosecuted) #564019JPJonesParticipantWait, does this mean I can start reading the message boards on this site again without getting constantly blindsided by political opinion?
It’s a christmas miracle! -=D
June 12, 2010 at 2:30 PM in reply to: Threadjackers Will Be Persecuted (Maybe Even Prosecuted) #564126JPJonesParticipantWait, does this mean I can start reading the message boards on this site again without getting constantly blindsided by political opinion?
It’s a christmas miracle! -=D
June 12, 2010 at 2:30 PM in reply to: Threadjackers Will Be Persecuted (Maybe Even Prosecuted) #564411JPJonesParticipantWait, does this mean I can start reading the message boards on this site again without getting constantly blindsided by political opinion?
It’s a christmas miracle! -=D
JPJonesParticipantYour tears will sustain us. Keep’em comin’!
JPJonesParticipantYour tears will sustain us. Keep’em comin’!
JPJonesParticipantYour tears will sustain us. Keep’em comin’!
JPJonesParticipantYour tears will sustain us. Keep’em comin’!
JPJonesParticipantYour tears will sustain us. Keep’em comin’!
JPJonesParticipantI’d been eye-balling e-book readers for my wife and finally cracked this year. She reads something like 100-150 pages an hour and the mess of old paperbacks was getting annoying. I got her a Kindle 2 after reading some much-improved reviews on the major 2nd-gen readers. 2 things tipped me towards the Kindle over the Sony reader.
1) Kindle is ready out-of-the-box. Wifey punched in her amazon account info and that was that. The Sony Reader requires a software installation and about an hours worth (plus or minus depending on computer savvy, of course) of configuring before it is in a usable state.
2) Kindle has free 3g wireless connectivity, limited to Amazon’s book store, but otherwise no strings attached. If you never want to plug the thing into a computer, you don’t have to. She is able to purchase and download books from anywhere that has wireless coverage.
Flu: The eye strain from reading “electronic ink” e-book readers is no different that of reading a normal hard copy. The display is not backlit, which is what causes eye strain when viewing an LCD for extended periods of time. You’ll need a well-lit area just the same as when you read a normal book. The trade-off for always needing an external light source is that the device uses barely any power and lasts for weeks without needing a recharge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_paper
In simple terms, think Etch-a-scetch.
One other detail that doesn’t get much attention is that the Kindle 2 reads just about any format you can throw at it, and the ones it doesn’t read by default, Amazon has a free, automated system setup that will convert them for you via e-mail. Txt, pdf, whatever, and it doesn’t care what the source is. It behaves like a thumb drive: plug it in, copy the file, and then start reading. I can’t speak for the Sony Reader in that regard, but format compatibility was my main requirement before I’d consider reaching for my wallet.
JPJonesParticipantI’d been eye-balling e-book readers for my wife and finally cracked this year. She reads something like 100-150 pages an hour and the mess of old paperbacks was getting annoying. I got her a Kindle 2 after reading some much-improved reviews on the major 2nd-gen readers. 2 things tipped me towards the Kindle over the Sony reader.
1) Kindle is ready out-of-the-box. Wifey punched in her amazon account info and that was that. The Sony Reader requires a software installation and about an hours worth (plus or minus depending on computer savvy, of course) of configuring before it is in a usable state.
2) Kindle has free 3g wireless connectivity, limited to Amazon’s book store, but otherwise no strings attached. If you never want to plug the thing into a computer, you don’t have to. She is able to purchase and download books from anywhere that has wireless coverage.
Flu: The eye strain from reading “electronic ink” e-book readers is no different that of reading a normal hard copy. The display is not backlit, which is what causes eye strain when viewing an LCD for extended periods of time. You’ll need a well-lit area just the same as when you read a normal book. The trade-off for always needing an external light source is that the device uses barely any power and lasts for weeks without needing a recharge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_paper
In simple terms, think Etch-a-scetch.
One other detail that doesn’t get much attention is that the Kindle 2 reads just about any format you can throw at it, and the ones it doesn’t read by default, Amazon has a free, automated system setup that will convert them for you via e-mail. Txt, pdf, whatever, and it doesn’t care what the source is. It behaves like a thumb drive: plug it in, copy the file, and then start reading. I can’t speak for the Sony Reader in that regard, but format compatibility was my main requirement before I’d consider reaching for my wallet.
JPJonesParticipantI’d been eye-balling e-book readers for my wife and finally cracked this year. She reads something like 100-150 pages an hour and the mess of old paperbacks was getting annoying. I got her a Kindle 2 after reading some much-improved reviews on the major 2nd-gen readers. 2 things tipped me towards the Kindle over the Sony reader.
1) Kindle is ready out-of-the-box. Wifey punched in her amazon account info and that was that. The Sony Reader requires a software installation and about an hours worth (plus or minus depending on computer savvy, of course) of configuring before it is in a usable state.
2) Kindle has free 3g wireless connectivity, limited to Amazon’s book store, but otherwise no strings attached. If you never want to plug the thing into a computer, you don’t have to. She is able to purchase and download books from anywhere that has wireless coverage.
Flu: The eye strain from reading “electronic ink” e-book readers is no different that of reading a normal hard copy. The display is not backlit, which is what causes eye strain when viewing an LCD for extended periods of time. You’ll need a well-lit area just the same as when you read a normal book. The trade-off for always needing an external light source is that the device uses barely any power and lasts for weeks without needing a recharge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_paper
In simple terms, think Etch-a-scetch.
One other detail that doesn’t get much attention is that the Kindle 2 reads just about any format you can throw at it, and the ones it doesn’t read by default, Amazon has a free, automated system setup that will convert them for you via e-mail. Txt, pdf, whatever, and it doesn’t care what the source is. It behaves like a thumb drive: plug it in, copy the file, and then start reading. I can’t speak for the Sony Reader in that regard, but format compatibility was my main requirement before I’d consider reaching for my wallet.
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