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I've read about three hours so far today, though I'd never manage more than 20 to 50 pages per hour, depending on the book.

I knew they have robots in warehouses. But I always thougt, the storage is 3 or more storeys high and the robots only pick up the required item. But maybe that's just another kind to handle things.

This weekend is a bit busy, so I only managed about 40 pages today.

Well, if a word is loaned into another language, it doesn't necessarily have to have the same meaning.

I like that idea! I think, I should take part in it, too!

My congratulations to your 39th birthday, Michelle!

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Marie H, on 20 Dec 2013 - 10:08 AM, said: Schadenfreude is great, and one of my favorites is besserwisser Do you say gesundheit when people sneeze? It's great to read that we exported words like Schadenfreude and Besserwisser! By the way: Some say, it's a bit unkind to say "Gesundheit", because originally, it wasn't used to wish people well but in the hope that one wouldn't catch their cold.

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I thought the one with the alarm clock the most creepy one. And No. 15 made me think of being cremated as well!

What's that? Rowling trying to interpret her own book??? She's the only one to whom it should be clear, what she has written. The possibility, that everything only happend in Harry's mind didn't even come to me, but it was a fantasy story and is supposed to be a bit strange. And the end of the last book also isn't written like that.

We're also used to being put on hold here, although I can't say how it works with our Amazon service. I've got a Kindle Touch and I love the use of the dictionaries here, simply touch the word you need. But I rather buy the books via my computer and let them be sent on to the Kindle. I don't like our Amazon page on the Kindle.

I found the thread about free audiobooks here and I thought I might give it a try just to get some hearing practice in English. I think, I'd have to listen more than once, she's reading quite fast.

Depends on the language I read in. In German, it can be a bit more old phrasing, but not so much that it disturbs the flow of the reading. If it's only some outdated words or a different kind of adressing people, okay. And I wouldn't read a historical fiction using Middle English like Shakespeare. I don't want to learn a complete different grammar.

Usually I stick to novels and crime, but recently I've tried some fantasy (and enjoyed it) and, thanks to the free eBooks, some classics.

I've got a Kindle Touch for my birthday. I tried the reading of eBooks on my notebook before and built up a great account there. I had no problems to get all the books on my Kindle now but I can't get it to synchronize the last page I read on the notebook. I've tried everything, but it still doesn't work. It works the other way round, though.

I am about to marry a man from an enemy country in London 1914.

I have read a couple of his books (in the German translation, so I'm not always sure about the English titles) and I enjoyed them. I also love the thought that in his times, everything he wrote has been SiFi, and now most of it is pretty much outdated.

I'd say, popularity and personal opinion are two completely different things. Your favourite book could be one which nearly nobody else would like.

Just another girl.

On a books forum???? NOBODY!! I wouldn't dare to touch these old volumes, though.

I do own some old books, some of them are special to me, but none is of that great a value. But ALL my books (even the new paperbacks) are treated well! And yes, you are right, that's a real shame! For a book like that, a real bibliophile is longing for ages and no matter if he would like what is written in it. And someone treating it like that! Hurts to read about.

At the moment I struggle with Stephen Fry - the liar. It's funny written but in a language of the youth of the 70s, which makes it difficult to understand for me.

I read a book which contains the making (and drinking and taste) of Whiskey. And the drink was described so good that I wanted to drink some. AND I HATE WHISKEY and knew it at that time! But that's the magic of words, isn't it?

Well, she told me something of a devil appearing on the first pages. But probably I got the title wrong? In Germany, there is a book called Die Bücherdiebin, the (woman) book thief, but maybe it isn't the same book at all.