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Sociology > Depression |
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"Franz Bestuchev" |
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15 Jul 2007 01:47:26 PM |
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Hey lisa! Your palm pilot books... |
What program do you use to read the books? Is the program free? Are you
paying for your books or just using a resource like project Gutenberg?
I was just given a Palm Tungsten T. I have a Palm M100 *somewhere*, from
test driving an Infiniti - but it's got very little memory (the Tungsten
can use SD memory cards) and sucks through AAA batteries instead of
having an internal li-ion battery like the Tungsten. The nice color
screen and all makes me think that perhaps I should give some reading a
chance. Since I can just use the dim screen light instead of the bed
side light it won't bother the bed-mate or irritate me with having more
light than I like.
Anybody else do the same as her and have suggestions too?
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| User: "lisa in mass." |
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| Title: Re: Hey lisa! Your palm pilot books... |
15 Jul 2007 02:19:15 PM |
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Franz Bestuchev wrote...
What program do you use to read the books? Is the program
free? Are you paying for your books or just using a
resource like project Gutenberg?
I was just given a Palm Tungsten T. I have a Palm M100
*somewhere*, from test driving an Infiniti - but it's got
very little memory (the Tungsten can use SD memory cards)
and sucks through AAA batteries instead of having an
internal li-ion battery like the Tungsten. The nice color
screen and all makes me think that perhaps I should give
some reading a chance. Since I can just use the dim screen
light instead of the bed side light it won't bother the
bed-mate or irritate me with having more light than I like.
Anybody else do the same as her and have suggestions too?
I'm just using Palm's eReader. It's free from Palm, unless you want
to add a dictionary optional fonts, and autoscrolling. I pay for
most books, preferably from fictionwise.com. Gutenberg's a decent
source for old books, but the formatting can be screwy, which bugs
me. EReader is available from
http://ebooks.palm.com/product/detail/19286?software=eReader_for_palm
There's also an application which can be used to convert .txt's
into Palm format. It's drag and drop, so it's simple to use. You can
find that at: http://www.ereader.com/dropbook
There's lots of other readers available, but I have no problem using
eReader.
-lisa
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| User: "Franz Bestuchev" |
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| Title: Re: Hey lisa! Your palm pilot books... |
15 Jul 2007 05:09:26 PM |
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On 7/15/2007 1:19 PM, lisa in mass. was all like:
Franz Bestuchev wrote...
What program do you use to read the books? Is the program
free? Are you paying for your books or just using a
resource like project Gutenberg?
I was just given a Palm Tungsten T. I have a Palm M100
*somewhere*, from test driving an Infiniti - but it's got
very little memory (the Tungsten can use SD memory cards)
and sucks through AAA batteries instead of having an
internal li-ion battery like the Tungsten. The nice color
screen and all makes me think that perhaps I should give
some reading a chance. Since I can just use the dim screen
light instead of the bed side light it won't bother the
bed-mate or irritate me with having more light than I like.
Anybody else do the same as her and have suggestions too?
I'm just using Palm's eReader. It's free from Palm, unless you want
to add a dictionary optional fonts, and autoscrolling. I pay for
most books, preferably from fictionwise.com. Gutenberg's a decent
source for old books, but the formatting can be screwy, which bugs
me. EReader is available from
http://ebooks.palm.com/product/detail/19286?software=eReader_for_palm
There's also an application which can be used to convert .txt's
into Palm format. It's drag and drop, so it's simple to use. You can
find that at: http://www.ereader.com/dropbook
There's lots of other readers available, but I have no problem using
eReader.
-lisa
Thanks. There's some Gutenberg stuff I want to read through and that
will certainly give me plenty of time to decide if reading this way is
going to work for me.
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| User: "slunky" |
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| Title: Re: Hey lisa! Your palm pilot books... |
15 Jul 2007 02:57:39 PM |
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_/ Franz Bestuchev wrote \_
What program do you use to read the books? Is the program free? Are you
paying for your books or just using a resource like project Gutenberg?
I was just given a Palm Tungsten T. I have a Palm M100 *somewhere*, from
test driving an Infiniti - but it's got very little memory (the Tungsten
can use SD memory cards) and sucks through AAA batteries instead of
having an internal li-ion battery like the Tungsten. The nice color
screen and all makes me think that perhaps I should give some reading a
chance. Since I can just use the dim screen light instead of the bed
side light it won't bother the bed-mate or irritate me with having more
light than I like.
Anybody else do the same as her and have suggestions too?
I have a Tungsten T too. I love the thing. I bought it the week it came
out. I'm only a little disappointed that the magnet to hold the stylus
doesn't work anymore. I use Palm eReader, TomeRaider, and once and a
while Abobe Acrobat. There's a big website that's got thousands of books
to read on Palm free. It's http://www.memoware.com .
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-slunky
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| User: "Franz Bestuchev" |
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| Title: Re: Hey lisa! Your palm pilot books... |
15 Jul 2007 05:08:13 PM |
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On 7/15/2007 1:57 PM, slunky was all like:
_/ Franz Bestuchev wrote \_
What program do you use to read the books? Is the program free? Are you
paying for your books or just using a resource like project Gutenberg?
I was just given a Palm Tungsten T. I have a Palm M100 *somewhere*, from
test driving an Infiniti - but it's got very little memory (the Tungsten
can use SD memory cards) and sucks through AAA batteries instead of
having an internal li-ion battery like the Tungsten. The nice color
screen and all makes me think that perhaps I should give some reading a
chance. Since I can just use the dim screen light instead of the bed
side light it won't bother the bed-mate or irritate me with having more
light than I like.
Anybody else do the same as her and have suggestions too?
I have a Tungsten T too. I love the thing. I bought it the week it came
out. I'm only a little disappointed that the magnet to hold the stylus
doesn't work anymore. I use Palm eReader, TomeRaider, and once and a
while Abobe Acrobat. There's a big website that's got thousands of books
to read on Palm free. It's http://www.memoware.com .
This one lived a somewhat hard life. The guy who owned it had a case for
it, but when the fabric wore through he kept going, so there's a couple
spots with intense metallic rubbing. The bottom part that slides out has
those 2 screws on either side, and when I got it one side was missing
both - so now it just has one on the left and one on the right. But
that's all cosmetic really, everything on it works fine. Even the magnet.
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| User: "lisa in mass." |
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| Title: Re: Hey lisa! Your palm pilot books... |
15 Jul 2007 06:57:13 PM |
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Franz Bestuchev wrote...
On 7/15/2007 1:57 PM, slunky was all like:
_/ Franz Bestuchev wrote \_
What program do you use to read the books? Is the program
free? Are you paying for your books or just using a
resource like project Gutenberg?
I was just given a Palm Tungsten T. I have a Palm M100
*somewhere*, from test driving an Infiniti - but it's got
very little memory (the Tungsten can use SD memory cards)
and sucks through AAA batteries instead of having an
internal li-ion battery like the Tungsten. The nice color
screen and all makes me think that perhaps I should give
some reading a chance. Since I can just use the dim
screen light instead of the bed side light it won't
bother the bed-mate or irritate me with having more light
than I like.
Anybody else do the same as her and have suggestions too?
I have a Tungsten T too. I love the thing. I bought it the
week it came out. I'm only a little disappointed that the
magnet to hold the stylus doesn't work anymore. I use Palm
eReader, TomeRaider, and once and a while Abobe Acrobat.
There's a big website that's got thousands of books to
read on Palm free. It's http://www.memoware.com .
This one lived a somewhat hard life. The guy who owned it
had a case for it, but when the fabric wore through he kept
going, so there's a couple spots with intense metallic
rubbing. The bottom part that slides out has those 2 screws
on either side, and when I got it one side was missing both
- so now it just has one on the left and one on the right.
But that's all cosmetic really, everything on it works
fine. Even the magnet.
The T3's notorious for the screws on the slide falling out.
Best to keep those two tightened if you don't want the slider
falling open.
Some of the Gutenberg books are available formatted for
eReader. I'd recommend starting with those, if what you want's
available. If they're text, they've got CRs embedded and the
text breaks funny on lines. They're still readable, but I find
it annoying and generally edit text files to take out the CRs,
leaving them only between paragraphs to allow the Palm's word
wrap to work properly.
-lisa
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| User: "Franz Bestuchev" |
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| Title: Re: Hey lisa! Your palm pilot books... |
15 Jul 2007 07:11:30 PM |
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On 7/15/2007 5:57 PM, lisa in mass. was all like:
The T3's notorious for the screws on the slide falling out.
Best to keep those two tightened if you don't want the slider
falling open.
I actually did put the remaining ones back in with loctite simply
because I didn't want to wind up missing 3/4. I also looked through my
collection of small screws and broken watches but couldn't find anything
suitable. It feels solid as is however.
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| User: "slunky" |
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| Title: Re: Hey lisa! Your palm pilot books... |
15 Jul 2007 09:05:57 PM |
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_/ Franz Bestuchev wrote \_
I actually did put the remaining ones back in with loctite simply
because I didn't want to wind up missing 3/4. I also looked through my
collection of small screws and broken watches but couldn't find anything
suitable. It feels solid as is however.
I had a screw fall out of mine, so I stole the non-functional display
model of the Tungsten T2 from Office Max and took the screw out of that,
plus my Palm got a new body.
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-slunky
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| User: "Franz Bestuchev" |
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| Title: Re: Hey lisa! Your palm pilot books... |
15 Jul 2007 09:46:55 PM |
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On 7/15/07 8:05 PM, slunky was all like:
_/ Franz Bestuchev wrote \_
I actually did put the remaining ones back in with loctite simply
because I didn't want to wind up missing 3/4. I also looked through my
collection of small screws and broken watches but couldn't find anything
suitable. It feels solid as is however.
I had a screw fall out of mine, so I stole the non-functional display
model of the Tungsten T2 from Office Max and took the screw out of that,
plus my Palm got a new body.
Ooh good idea, maybe I should go take a look. It's too old to be on sale
but that won't mean I can't get a similar set of screws. Or let me know
if yours dies...of perhaps a DOA ebay model that just looks pretty.
Of course this is all assuming that reading ebooks is what I want to do.
The whole PDA function thing has been taken over really well by using
Apple's iApps and iSync to seamlessly integrate over to my RAZR. The
support for that model of phone is incredible. Contacts are perfect,
datebook is flawless... It's the first time those type features on a
cell phone are worthwhile. Simply because I can do the typing on a
laptop instead of T-9 input. I had no idea that Apple supported the
phone so well when I bought it. The only thing that stupid phone has
shined on.
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| User: "slunky" |
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| Title: Re: Hey lisa! Your palm pilot books... |
15 Jul 2007 09:58:11 PM |
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_/ Franz Bestuchev wrote \_
Ooh good idea, maybe I should go take a look. It's too old to be on sale
but that won't mean I can't get a similar set of screws. Or let me know
if yours dies...of perhaps a DOA ebay model that just looks pretty.
I'll have to look in some boxes, but I should still have some extra
screws from the demo if you need them.
Of course this is all assuming that reading ebooks is what I want to do.
The whole PDA function thing has been taken over really well by using
Apple's iApps and iSync to seamlessly integrate over to my RAZR. The
support for that model of phone is incredible. Contacts are perfect,
datebook is flawless... It's the first time those type features on a
cell phone are worthwhile. Simply because I can do the typing on a
laptop instead of T-9 input. I had no idea that Apple supported the
phone so well when I bought it. The only thing that stupid phone has
shined on.
My SLVR is supposed to do that too, but I don't have a mac, and I like
my Palm because of all the other stuff I've got on it. Maps, an
instrument tuner, skycharts, I've got about fifty games, books, Web
browser (I've got the modem attachment), e-mail, I've got lots of stuff.
PalmOS software is easy to crack with the right tools.
--
-slunky
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| User: "Franz Bestuchev" |
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| Title: Re: Hey lisa! Your palm pilot books... |
16 Jul 2007 02:13:52 PM |
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On 7/15/2007 8:58 PM, slunky was all like:
_/ Franz Bestuchev wrote \_
Ooh good idea, maybe I should go take a look. It's too old to be on sale
but that won't mean I can't get a similar set of screws. Or let me know
if yours dies...of perhaps a DOA ebay model that just looks pretty.
I'll have to look in some boxes, but I should still have some extra
screws from the demo if you need them.
That would be stellar.
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| User: "slunky" |
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| Title: Re: Hey lisa! Your palm pilot books... |
16 Jul 2007 02:46:05 PM |
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_/ Franz Bestuchev wrote \_
That would be stellar.
I'll go look for the screws then.
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-slunky
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| User: "Franz Bestuchev" |
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17 Jul 2007 09:59:25 AM |
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On 7/16/2007 1:46 PM, slunky was all like:
_/ Franz Bestuchev wrote \_
That would be stellar.
I'll go look for the screws then.
When you find them you can say SCREWs (for) YOU!!
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| User: "slunky" |
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15 Jul 2007 09:04:50 PM |
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_/ Franz Bestuchev wrote \_
This one lived a somewhat hard life. The guy who owned it had a case for
it, but when the fabric wore through he kept going, so there's a couple
spots with intense metallic rubbing. The bottom part that slides out has
those 2 screws on either side, and when I got it one side was missing
both - so now it just has one on the left and one on the right. But
that's all cosmetic really, everything on it works fine. Even the magnet.
Tungsten T's are tough. They were designed for the military, and the
slide was tested at like 50,000,000 slides before it breaks. Mine fell
out of my pocket once while I was on my motorcycle, and it still works.
--
-slunky
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| User: "Franz Bestuchev" |
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15 Jul 2007 09:51:05 PM |
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On 7/15/07 8:04 PM, slunky was all like:
_/ Franz Bestuchev wrote \_
This one lived a somewhat hard life. The guy who owned it had a case for
it, but when the fabric wore through he kept going, so there's a couple
spots with intense metallic rubbing. The bottom part that slides out has
those 2 screws on either side, and when I got it one side was missing
both - so now it just has one on the left and one on the right. But
that's all cosmetic really, everything on it works fine. Even the magnet.
Tungsten T's are tough. They were designed for the military, and the
slide was tested at like 50,000,000 slides before it breaks. Mine fell
out of my pocket once while I was on my motorcycle, and it still works.
Well the one I just got survived a year or two of CEO useage. I'll have
to sort out the health out the internal battery here. See if I'll be
able to even get 20 minutes of reading.
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| User: "lisa in mass." |
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| Title: Re: Hey lisa! Your palm pilot books... |
16 Jul 2007 11:18:12 AM |
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Franz Bestuchev wrote...
On 7/15/07 8:04 PM, slunky was all like:
_/ Franz Bestuchev wrote \_
This one lived a somewhat hard life. The guy who owned it
had a case for it, but when the fabric wore through he
kept going, so there's a couple spots with intense
metallic rubbing. The bottom part that slides out has
those 2 screws on either side, and when I got it one side
was missing both - so now it just has one on the left and
one on the right. But that's all cosmetic really,
everything on it works fine. Even the magnet.
Tungsten T's are tough. They were designed for the
military, and the slide was tested at like 50,000,000
slides before it breaks. Mine fell out of my pocket once
while I was on my motorcycle, and it still works.
Well the one I just got survived a year or two of CEO
useage. I'll have to sort out the health out the internal
battery here. See if I'll be able to even get 20 minutes of
reading.
PDAParts.com has many batteries, along with detailed
instructions on how to change them. They've also got screws.
-lisa
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| User: "Franz Bestuchev" |
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| Title: Re: Hey lisa! Your palm pilot books... |
16 Jul 2007 04:02:08 PM |
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On 7/16/2007 10:18 AM, lisa in mass. was all like:
Franz Bestuchev wrote...
On 7/15/07 8:04 PM, slunky was all like:
_/ Franz Bestuchev wrote \_
This one lived a somewhat hard life. The guy who owned it
had a case for it, but when the fabric wore through he
kept going, so there's a couple spots with intense
metallic rubbing. The bottom part that slides out has
those 2 screws on either side, and when I got it one side
was missing both - so now it just has one on the left and
one on the right. But that's all cosmetic really,
everything on it works fine. Even the magnet.
Tungsten T's are tough. They were designed for the
military, and the slide was tested at like 50,000,000
slides before it breaks. Mine fell out of my pocket once
while I was on my motorcycle, and it still works.
Well the one I just got survived a year or two of CEO
useage. I'll have to sort out the health out the internal
battery here. See if I'll be able to even get 20 minutes of
reading.
PDAParts.com has many batteries, along with detailed
instructions on how to change them. They've also got screws.
-lisa
Looks like a good resource, I'll be bookmarking it but refurbing this
thing is pretty far down on my list of how to spend the few pennies I have.
I need to see what shape the batteries are in for now.
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