Lumo
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Well Wartime Britain arrived this morning. With the authority book only having been dispatched today, and the resend of my lost astronaut biography (the book got lost, not the astronaut) still in the post, and having finished To have and Have Not last night, I think I will make a start on Wartime Britain. Of course there are a dozen or more other books sitting around the flat that I also intended to start soon, but they can wait ;-)
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The new Kindle and the Kindle touch both have the same resolution of black and white screen, the main difference being the Touch has some kind of touchscreen layer over/in/under it (I don't know how it works). The Touch version also has a longer battery life and more storage space than the new Kindle (but not sure how it compares to the Keyboard Kindle).
The Kindle Fire tablet is indeed the only one to have a colour screen.
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Thanks, I'll take a loot at that too.
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I've just checked Amazon.com and the 3G Touch will be $149 with adverts or $189 without. The pricing of the new ones seems to be about the same or sometimes better than the older ones, maybe when it's released in the UK it won't be more than the £149 3G one?
iPad2 does look nice...
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Yes, I had thought just the same, that as soon as I order it on Amazon I bet I see it sitting in the window of the second hand shops.
Not sure how long it is...Just checked on Amazon and it says 231 pages, so not massive but as it is a description and interpretation of a set of related psychology experiments I suppose it might be heavy going or repetitive in places.
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I also think I will get one of these for Christmas. While the new Kindle is out in the UK, the new Kindle Touch (with a touchscreen for selecting books, turning pages etc) is not out yet. I think the Kindle Touch looks like a good improvement over the standard Kindle and I would rather wait and have that one than settle for the standard Kindle. It will have WiFi but not sure about 3G. The Kindle Touch also has a headphone socket for audio books and has some other features which, erm, I can't remember right now ;-)
The Kindle touch is released in the US in mid November, I don't think there is a date set yet for release in the UK. However, I would be surprised it if were not released before Christmas as I imagine it would be a popular present and therefore would be odd for Amazon to release it after christmas. I think I'll call in a favour and get someone to bring me one from America, they are generally a bit cheaper there anyway.
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Thanks for crossing your fingers HoneyGirl...however, I still couldn't find the book. I looked in two Waterstones, another bookshop and a charity shop that has an academic/student section (the authority book is sometimes a standard text on psychology courses, so I thought I might find a second hand copy there). There are no more bookshops here, well not nearby anyway, so I'll order it on Amazon tonight and try and speed read it.
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Well I was planning to read Wartime: Britain 1939-1945 as soon as it arrived, and looking forward to it. However, I have sort of told someone I will read Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View by Stanley Milgram before I next see them at a conference in around 2 weeks. Hmmm, I probably won't then see them for ages, so I think I need to delay Wartime Britain until after the authority one. I also have to find the authority one, there's not much time and super saver from Amazon can take a while getting here, I'll see if I can get a copy in Waterstones tomorrow...
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I lived in Spain for a while and also noticed the incredible excitement and hyperactivity of many of the presenters - it was almost tiring listening to them (didn't help that I really struggled to understand what they were saying).
I have never listened to 6 music, I should give it a go sometime.
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Yes, the adverts drive me mad on commercial radio. I do like listening to radio for news and to get rid of the silence (I work from home often) and found I normally stuck to the BBC stations, not due to a fond loyalty to the BBC, but to avoid the ads. When writing from home (and so wanting classical music without words rather than pop type radio) I found the Classic FM adverts drove me mad too, every day I had something stuck in my head about a crack in a windscreen (which I suppose is the point of adverts). This is partly the reason I looked online, many of the US based stations are listener supported or have sponsors, so maybe once an hour they read out a 20 second 'message' (ie advert) or ask for a donation. I don't mind this, mainly because it is so infrequent and only lasts a short amount of time, but also if the station is from far away it's sometimes quite amusing to hear about, for example, a dog walking service in Seattle.
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Does anyone listen to online radio from other countries?
When working I often listen to WQXR - a classical radio station from New York (http://www.wqxr.org/). It's mostly classical music but also has some introduction of the music, discussion and news. I find this a good balance for working with (too much speech and it's distracting from what I am doing, but I like to have some voices every now and then). The times zone being 5 hours behind where I am in the UK is also fun, sitting here at 10AM and hearing it is 5AM makes me feel like I got up really early. ;-)
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This is the second time this evening I have passed one of my dads recommendations on to you HoneyGirl, he must have had similar interests in books as you do (and indeed as I do): he said The Road to Nab End was an excellent book and encouraged me to read it. It's another of those books that I have intended to read for a while, but have never actually read.
Many of your other books on that list have intriguing titles too :-)
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Well you have inspired me HoneyGirl, the last book I ordered from Amazon seems to have gone astray in the post, so while I chase that one up I decided rather than agonising over what to get next from my wishlist I would go ahead and order "Wartime: Britain 1939-1945". I nearly bought the Austerity one by David Kynaston instead, (mainly because there was a good price on a second hand copy) but thought even if not by the same author it might be worth reading these in chronological order.
I also saw a link to How We Lived Then by Norman Longmate. I am pretty sure I saw this on my dads bookself, and can almost remember him saying it was a good book (and being an historian he didn't praise history books quickly) which seems to deal with a similar theme and might be worth looking at.
I'll definitely let you know how I get on with Wartime Britain :-)
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The triumphal march from AIDA, depending on the performance I quite like (or dislike) this, and it brings back memories listening to it with me parents.
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I had not seen these books before, but have also added them to my wishlist as I'm now interested in reading them :-)
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The same person has just sent me another email and the first point in the email is a grammar correction in something I wrote. He is right to do so, and I'm not complaining, but I did find it amusing that this was in the next email after starting this tread. I should have paid more attention during English at school, or I should learn now.
When I was very young I used to think the radio reporter talking abut the "rush hour traffic" was saying the "Russia traffic", it didn't really strike me as odd that a Scottish reporter was so fixated on the roads in Russia...
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Q: Why did the tomato blush?
A: Because he saw the salad dressing.
A guy has celery sticking out of one ear, lettuce out of the other, and a zucchini up his nose.
He goes to the doctor and asks him what's wrong.
The doctor tells him, "Well, for one thing, you're not eating right."
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Have you ever received an email from anyone containing an unusual word which you upon first reading it thought was a typo or txt speech but in fact turned out to be a real word?
I have. Today it happened with the word: redact
I don't think I had ever come across this word before and as there were some other shortened words in the email upon skimming the message I initially thought this was a condensed or misspelt word.
So, confession time, is this just me or does this happen to other people too?
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I saw this in a bookshop and wondered about it. Given what has been said here I will add it to my wishlist :-)
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I'd not noticed either of those before, thanks, I'll take a look and try and make a decision :-)
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I nearly bought that one before, it seemed to get good reviews but was also criticised for sounding unbelievable and/or exaggerated. I think I would find it frustrating to read if it were over exaggerated, but looking again most of the reviews seem good. I might take a peak at some pages on Amazon :-)
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An Alan Jackson - Greatest Hits Collection CD that arrived in the post yesterday :-)
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I'm wondering if anyone knows of a good book which has addiction as a main theme?
I'm thinking more of a life story / biography rather than a book on the science of addiction or a self help guide. I would read it out of curiosity about what that life might involve and feel like rather than reading it for a cure or psychological explanation.
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Hi Kirsty,
Welcome to the forum. I'm also from Scotland :-)
Do you use your local library...?
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Since moving house I have registered with my local library but not quite got around to going there to collect my library card.
I will do this soon. There is a particular audio book which I really want (high sentimental value) and I cannot find it online anywhere, so thought I would try the library reservation service.