Ebook readers?

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Don't worry...you get used to it eventually. My moment was in a toy store with my kids a few years ago when they were trying to relaunch He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. My son looked at another kid who look back and asked each other if they ever heard of He-Man before.

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Knock it off, whippersnapper.
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Tyyr wrote:I have a sudden urge to protect my lawn aggressively.
Only if you're in uniform. Your leather sandals and accompanying black socks and garters should be arriving in the mail.
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When one of your default radio stations that plays "80s, 90s, and now" is calling itself an "oldies" station, your definetely one of us.
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Mark wrote:I've got the base line Barnes and Noble Nook......and I love it. I can carry all my books with me, and book shopping got really easy. No more going to the bookstore 8)
But I assume you can only buy books from Barnes and Noble ?

Like, can you buy Kindle books too ?

Somehow I'm guessing its locked to their own brand. :|

That might be a dumb question but I really couldn't tell from the info on the Nook page of the B&N website.

Tyyr wrote:I have a sudden urge to protect my lawn aggressively.

You mean like this:

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Well that sure beats the garden hose.
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Mark wrote:When one of your default radio stations that plays "80s, 90s, and now" is calling itself an "oldies" station, your definetely one of us.
Hell, I feel old now! Why is the decade I grew up in "old!" (this from a person who listenst to 50s, 60s, 70s music)
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You feel old? Tell me, where were you when the Wall came down?
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Captain Seafort wrote:You feel old? Tell me, where were you when the Wall came down?
Not even an idea ;) I feel old cuz apparently 90s is "oldies" now?
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Captain Seafort wrote:You feel old? Tell me, where were you when the Wall came down?
That depends, youngster. Do you mean Berlin, or Jericho?
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Ahh....I was watching "Reading with Moses-live" on PBS when that whole Jericho thing happened.
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LaughingCheese wrote:
Mark wrote:I've got the base line Barnes and Noble Nook......and I love it. I can carry all my books with me, and book shopping got really easy. No more going to the bookstore 8)
But I assume you can only buy books from Barnes and Noble ?

Like, can you buy Kindle books too ?

Somehow I'm guessing its locked to their own brand. :|
Yeah, it's locked to only B&N books, which is why I love my iPad, because it has all of the book stores on it as well as better screen real-estate. Now I have a question, is there any back-light on them, because the screen has the same brightness as a books page as far as I can tell, which would make them utterly useless to me.
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