What book(s) are you reading???

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Wed Aug 30, 2017 5:14 pm

wonkabars7 wrote:Perhaps a dumb Paperwhite question:

So you pay more for a unit without ads, which = 'special offers'?
You pay for the unit, the ads are something you can disable via Amazon's website at anytime. Its not its own model.
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Wed Aug 30, 2017 6:20 pm

Thanks for the info. So what's 'special offers'?
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Wed Aug 30, 2017 7:32 pm

wonkabars7 wrote:Thanks for the info. So what's 'special offers'?
Just a nice word for ads and offers specific to the device.
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Thu Aug 31, 2017 9:20 pm

Paperwhite definitely a nicer unit w/superior battery life than the fire tablet, not sure twice as nice though. $119 vs $50.

Pro tip- For those who checkout ebooks from the library. If you change to airplane mode before the book is do back, it stays on the reader indefinitely for you to finish.
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Fri Sep 01, 2017 9:50 am

Finally getting around to Coneole Wars - Please no spoilers dying to know how it ends.
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Fri Sep 01, 2017 11:07 am

Almost halfway through It.... damn good. I need to finish it before the movie.
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Fri Sep 01, 2017 11:49 am

Yeah, hooked me right away. Just that intro dialogue brought back so many memories. My best friend at the time was all Nintendo and I was all Sega and Coleco Vision. A great era to be a part of.
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Fri Sep 01, 2017 12:00 pm

chevyav53 wrote:Yeah, hooked me right away. Just that intro dialogue brought back so many memories. My best friend at the time was all Nintendo and I was all Sega and Coleco Vision. A great era to be a part of.
Ha, I meant the book "It"
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Fri Sep 01, 2017 12:05 pm

Ha, fudge I read that as a teen, fooking hate clowns ever since. Then that 90s movie that was for TV.... done..but waiting for some fool to come at me in the street in a clown mask after the move is released take some of that fear out on them.
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Fri Sep 01, 2017 12:21 pm

I saw that movie in like 5th grade and was scared of clowns until high school. To this day the scariest movie I ever saw in terms of how it affected me, ha. Can't wait for the remake in a week!
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Fri Sep 01, 2017 12:55 pm

Funny to think now but scariest movie is Critters. Still my favorite Uncle put it on when parents went out of town for us and I was in 6th or something..... to this day I wait for a pair of red eyes to peer through the kitchen window at night.
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Fri Sep 01, 2017 5:13 pm

63schoeffling wrote:Ha, I meant the book "It"
Halfway through too. Been a solid read from the start.

Finished "The Nix" by Nathan Hill a few weeks back.

Got some good chucks out of that one
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Wed Sep 06, 2017 11:17 am

I'm loving this book. I wish I had found it sooner. I would not expect to be hanging on almost every word of an economics book, but...
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Wed Sep 06, 2017 11:29 am

Read "Shattered" recently, good recap of the shitstorm of the 2016 election.

Now reading "Sapiens", believe it was recommended by Jermaine Rogers in an insta post. Book is straight up rewiring my brain and the way I view our existence.
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Wed Sep 06, 2017 1:15 pm

100 pages into The Goldfinch. Sheesh, not sure I want to keep reading! Heavy. Luckily I'm also reading Jeffrey Tambor's new autobiography. Some funny fudge.
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