oh yeah, been there done that, you find an author, so you look for similar books, and you end up with a bunch, but this is very good, don ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon S" <koala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 11:35 PM Subject: Re: [book_talk] books, booksm and more books, LOL > Another problem is you read a book you like so you go looking for other > books by that author and you end up finding a heap more books. Most of my > books I pick myself but I get some for the audio book club I am involved > in > and then others from the local home library service which picks the books > for me. The home library sometimes does really good at picking books and > some time really bad ones comes around. At the moment I haven't worked out > how to save the home library books to my drive so I have to send them back > without reading when they get overdue. So I have another list of home > library books that I want to get again at some stage. Some of the home > library books I can get from other places but some I will just have to > wait > until I have the time to read them and order them again from the home > library. > > A good thing about having so many books in different formats is when we > had > a power out I had enough battery left in a few of my devices so I had > books > to read while we waited for the power to come back on. > > Happy reading. > From Shaz. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Don Marr" <dpm51@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 3:16 AM > Subject: Re: [book_talk] books, booksm and more books, LOL > > > | Yup, Shaz, it sure is an addiction, you think you have enough books, > then > | someone comes along and tells you about a book you have, to have, and > you > | get it, to be honest, for the rest of my life, i [probably won't read > half > | of what i have, cause i read a lot of hard copy braille too, but at > least > i > | have them, Don > | ----- Original Message ----- > | From: "Sharon S" <koala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > | To: <book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > | Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 12:47 AM > | Subject: Re: [book_talk] books, booksm and more books, LOL > | > | > | > Hi Don, I haven't counted how many I currently have on my hard drive > | > waiting > | > to be read however my pocket Plextalk currently has about 35 books on > it. > | > My > | > laptop's hard drive has over 3 hundren on it and as I said I haven't > | > looked > | > at how many on my external hard drive. I have a list of books I want > to > | > read > | > at some time but still to be found or loaned which is over four > hundren > | > books that I have counted. > | > > | > So I don't think I will be running out of books anytime soon. > Especially > | > when people on this list keep suggesting more good books. > | > > | > From Shaz. > | > In cold Canberra, Australia. > | > > | > > | > | > >