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Just starting this…

should be a decent read.

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RayRogers said:

chyron8472 said:

RayRogers said:

chyron8472 said:

Warbler said:

I want a physical Bible. I want my Bible in leather cover with gold gilding, not some impersonal text on a kindle.

The Bible does not work well on an eBook Reader. But on an app, like the YouVersion app Life.Curch made, it works very well indeed.

I like both. Not either, but both.

Which version?

New International Version or New Living Translation.
2011 NIV is fine. I’m not picky about it being the '84 NIV like some people might be.

New King James Version might be “poetic”, but I imagine that wasn’t the intent of the original authors of the scrolls/books (outside of Psalms and Song of Solomon, obviously).

RayRogers said:

chyron8472 said:

Warbler said:

I want a physical Bible. I want my Bible in leather cover with gold gilding, not some impersonal text on a kindle.

The Bible does not work well on an eBook Reader. But on an app, like the YouVersion app Life.Curch made, it works very well indeed.

I like both. Not either, but both.

The majority work as an improvised doorstop too.

That was not an invitation to troll, sir. Thank you.

Both Encyclopedias and Dictionaries also work as improvised doorstops.
Best Bibles to read maybe are the ones which have less left out and also the annotated versions.

chyron8472 said:

RayRogers said:

chyron8472 said:

Warbler said:

I want a physical Bible. I want my Bible in leather cover with gold gilding, not some impersonal text on a kindle.

The Bible does not work well on an eBook Reader. But on an app, like the YouVersion app Life.Curch made, it works very well indeed.

I like both. Not either, but both.

Which version?

New International Version or New Living Translation.
2011 NIV is fine. I’m not picky about it being the '84 NIV like some people might be.

New King James Version might be “poetic”, but I imagine that wasn’t the intent of the original authors of the scrolls/books (outside of Psalms and Song of Solomon, obviously).

RayRogers said:

chyron8472 said:

Warbler said:

I want a physical Bible. I want my Bible in leather cover with gold gilding, not some impersonal text on a kindle.

The Bible does not work well on an eBook Reader. But on an app, like the YouVersion app Life.Curch made, it works very well indeed.

I like both. Not either, but both.

The majority work as an improvised doorstop too.

That was not an invitation to troll, sir. Thank you.
It’s not trolling, it’s a fact. Same how a majority of Dictionaries and Encyclopedias could be used as improvised doorstops.
DuracellEnergizer said:

chyron8472 said:

RayRogers said:

chyron8472 said:

Warbler said:

I want a physical Bible. I want my Bible in leather cover with gold gilding, not some impersonal text on a kindle.

The Bible does not work well on an eBook Reader. But on an app, like the YouVersion app Life.Curch made, it works very well indeed.

I like both. Not either, but both.

The majority work as an improvised doorstop too.

That was not an invitation to troll, sir. Thank you.

Mr. Rogers will make it an invitation.

Welcome to my Neighborhood.

Ah. Well, I don’t really read annotated versions so that didn’t occur to me. That is to say, I do own a few, and my wife and I do have one of those enormous coffee-table-sized “family bibles” (albeit I’d be more inclined to put my Hyrule Historia on the coffee table instead), but I’m generally content with my thinline Bible.

I guess I would read from an annotated Bible if I had a quiet time, but I don’t ever seem to remember to do that.

TV’s Frink said:

chyron just put a big Ric pic in your sig and be done with it.

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chyron8472 said:

RayRogers said:

chyron8472 said:

RayRogers said:

chyron8472 said:

Warbler said:

I want a physical Bible. I want my Bible in leather cover with gold gilding, not some impersonal text on a kindle.

The Bible does not work well on an eBook Reader. But on an app, like the YouVersion app Life.Curch made, it works very well indeed.

I like both. Not either, but both.

Which version?

New International Version or New Living Translation.
2011 NIV is fine. I’m not picky about it being the '84 NIV like some people might be.

New King James Version might be “poetic”, but I imagine that wasn’t the intent of the original authors of the scrolls/books (outside of Psalms and Song of Solomon, obviously).

RayRogers said:

chyron8472 said:

Warbler said:

I want a physical Bible. I want my Bible in leather cover with gold gilding, not some impersonal text on a kindle.

The Bible does not work well on an eBook Reader. But on an app, like the YouVersion app Life.Curch made, it works very well indeed.

I like both. Not either, but both.

The majority work as an improvised doorstop too.

That was not an invitation to troll, sir. Thank you.

Both Encyclopedias and Dictionaries also work as improvised doorstops.
Best Bibles to read maybe are the ones which have less left out and also the annotated versions.

chyron8472 said:

RayRogers said:

chyron8472 said:

Warbler said:

I want a physical Bible. I want my Bible in leather cover with gold gilding, not some impersonal text on a kindle.

The Bible does not work well on an eBook Reader. But on an app, like the YouVersion app Life.Curch made, it works very well indeed.

I like both. Not either, but both.

Which version?

New International Version or New Living Translation.
2011 NIV is fine. I’m not picky about it being the '84 NIV like some people might be.

New King James Version might be “poetic”, but I imagine that wasn’t the intent of the original authors of the scrolls/books (outside of Psalms and Song of Solomon, obviously).

RayRogers said:

chyron8472 said:

Warbler said:

I want a physical Bible. I want my Bible in leather cover with gold gilding, not some impersonal text on a kindle.

The Bible does not work well on an eBook Reader. But on an app, like the YouVersion app Life.Curch made, it works very well indeed.

I like both. Not either, but both.

The majority work as an improvised doorstop too.

That was not an invitation to troll, sir. Thank you.
It’s not trolling, it’s a fact. Same how a majority of Dictionaries and Encyclopedias could be used as improvised doorstops.
DuracellEnergizer said:

chyron8472 said:

RayRogers said:

chyron8472 said:

Warbler said:

I want a physical Bible. I want my Bible in leather cover with gold gilding, not some impersonal text on a kindle.

The Bible does not work well on an eBook Reader. But on an app, like the YouVersion app Life.Curch made, it works very well indeed.

I like both. Not either, but both.

The majority work as an improvised doorstop too.

That was not an invitation to troll, sir. Thank you.

Mr. Rogers will make it an invitation.

Welcome to my Neighborhood.

Ah. Well, I don’t really read annotated versions so that didn’t occur to me. That is to say, I do own a few, and my wife and I do have one of those enormous coffee-table-sized “family bibles” (albeit I’d be more inclined to put my Hyrule Historia on the coffee table instead), but I’m generally content with my thinline Bible.

I guess I would read from an annotated Bible if I had a quiet time, but I don’t ever seem to remember to do that.

For the few annotated versions of books I’ve read, specifically Star Wars Screenplays, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, Shakespeare, some others, it’s great to see the comments about the specific analytic processes for the different drafts and comments.

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RayRogers said:

chyron8472 said:

RayRogers said:

chyron8472 said:

RayRogers said:

chyron8472 said:

Warbler said:

I want a physical Bible. I want my Bible in leather cover with gold gilding, not some impersonal text on a kindle.

The Bible does not work well on an eBook Reader. But on an app, like the YouVersion app Life.Curch made, it works very well indeed.

I like both. Not either, but both.

Which version?

New International Version or New Living Translation.
2011 NIV is fine. I’m not picky about it being the '84 NIV like some people might be.

New King James Version might be “poetic”, but I imagine that wasn’t the intent of the original authors of the scrolls/books (outside of Psalms and Song of Solomon, obviously).

RayRogers said:

chyron8472 said:

Warbler said:

I want a physical Bible. I want my Bible in leather cover with gold gilding, not some impersonal text on a kindle.

The Bible does not work well on an eBook Reader. But on an app, like the YouVersion app Life.Curch made, it works very well indeed.

I like both. Not either, but both.

The majority work as an improvised doorstop too.

That was not an invitation to troll, sir. Thank you.

Both Encyclopedias and Dictionaries also work as improvised doorstops.
Best Bibles to read maybe are the ones which have less left out and also the annotated versions.

chyron8472 said:

RayRogers said:

chyron8472 said:

Warbler said:

I want a physical Bible. I want my Bible in leather cover with gold gilding, not some impersonal text on a kindle.

The Bible does not work well on an eBook Reader. But on an app, like the YouVersion app Life.Curch made, it works very well indeed.

I like both. Not either, but both.

Which version?

New International Version or New Living Translation.
2011 NIV is fine. I’m not picky about it being the '84 NIV like some people might be.

New King James Version might be “poetic”, but I imagine that wasn’t the intent of the original authors of the scrolls/books (outside of Psalms and Song of Solomon, obviously).

RayRogers said:

chyron8472 said:

Warbler said:

I want a physical Bible. I want my Bible in leather cover with gold gilding, not some impersonal text on a kindle.

The Bible does not work well on an eBook Reader. But on an app, like the YouVersion app Life.Curch made, it works very well indeed.

I like both. Not either, but both.

The majority work as an improvised doorstop too.

That was not an invitation to troll, sir. Thank you.
It’s not trolling, it’s a fact. Same how a majority of Dictionaries and Encyclopedias could be used as improvised doorstops.
DuracellEnergizer said:

chyron8472 said:

RayRogers said:

chyron8472 said:

Warbler said:

I want a physical Bible. I want my Bible in leather cover with gold gilding, not some impersonal text on a kindle.

The Bible does not work well on an eBook Reader. But on an app, like the YouVersion app Life.Curch made, it works very well indeed.

I like both. Not either, but both.

The majority work as an improvised doorstop too.

That was not an invitation to troll, sir. Thank you.

Mr. Rogers will make it an invitation.

Welcome to my Neighborhood.

Ah. Well, I don’t really read annotated versions so that didn’t occur to me. That is to say, I do own a few, and my wife and I do have one of those enormous coffee-table-sized “family bibles” (albeit I’d be more inclined to put my Hyrule Historia on the coffee table instead), but I’m generally content with my thinline Bible.

I guess I would read from an annotated Bible if I had a quiet time, but I don’t ever seem to remember to do that.

For the few annotated versions of books I’ve read, specifically Star Wars Screenplays, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, Shakespeare, some others, it’s great to see the comments about the specific analytic processes for the different drafts and comments.

I bought my wife an Anniversary Edition set of The History of The Lord of the Rings, as she and her family are big on high fantasy as well as LOTR purists. But she hasn’t read them because she says she’s more interested in the story and characters than reading frequently tangential notes on the process of creating them. I’d have to agree when I imagine the idea of reading a book of notes on the creation of Ender Wiggin or Harry Potter.

TV’s Frink said:

chyron just put a big Ric pic in your sig and be done with it.

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The Eyes of Heisenberg by Frank Herbert.

Meh. It’s not nearly as engaging as his Dune work, and the biology technobabble makes it hard to follow.

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Artemis by Andy Weir

It’s not bad, I guess, but after The Martian, it’s definitely disappointing. I’m determined to finish it, though, as I haven’t finished enough books lately.

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suspiciouscoffee said:

Artemis by Andy Weir

It’s not bad, I guess, but after The Martian, it’s definitely disappointing. I’m determined to finish it, though, as I haven’t finished enough books lately.

don’t knock it too much, i asked for a copy for christmas

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dahmage said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

Artemis by Andy Weir

It’s not bad, I guess, but after The Martian, it’s definitely disappointing. I’m determined to finish it, though, as I haven’t finished enough books lately.

don’t knock it too much, i asked for a copy for christmas

worst piece of garbage ive ever looked at 0/10 im not bitter that someone spilled coffee on my copy at all whatsoever nope *cries*

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Also, I’ve read The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (translated to English because I unfortunately don’t know German).

On the list of things I’d least like to suddenly wake up as, giant roach is actually not all that high.

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suspiciouscoffee said:

dahmage said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

Artemis by Andy Weir

It’s not bad, I guess, but after The Martian, it’s definitely disappointing. I’m determined to finish it, though, as I haven’t finished enough books lately.

don’t knock it too much, i asked for a copy for christmas

worst piece of garbage ive ever looked at 0/10 im not bitter that someone spilled coffee on my copy at all whatsoever nope *cries*

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suspiciouscoffee said:

dahmage said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

Artemis by Andy Weir

It’s not bad, I guess, but after The Martian, it’s definitely disappointing. I’m determined to finish it, though, as I haven’t finished enough books lately.

don’t knock it too much, i asked for a copy for christmas

worst piece of garbage ive ever looked at 0/10 im not bitter that someone spilled coffee on my copy at all whatsoever nope *cries*

Coffee, eh? Sounds suspicious.

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The Man in the High Castle, that’s what I’m reading right now. The pals at the college discuss the new series, and I decided that book will be better

I often get at https://essayshark.com/ assistance with my essays and creative writings

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ray_afraid said:

Mike O said:

The Stand by Stephen King. Wow, this is long.

Which version are you reading?

The unabridged version. I finally finished it. What an unbelievably disappointing ending. I’m now reading Cline’s Ready Player One.

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“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.”

Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death

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Mike O said:

ray_afraid said:

Mike O said:

The Stand by Stephen King. Wow, this is long.

Which version are you reading?

I’m now reading Cline’s Ready Player One.

Good luck with that. I couldn’t get past his pages-long soul-crushing tirade about how the idea of God is stupid, that he’s smart for realizing it, and then goes back to lamenting how pointless life is and at least he has Family Ties reruns to keep him busy.

TV’s Frink said:

chyron just put a big Ric pic in your sig and be done with it.

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Mike O said:

ray_afraid said:

Mike O said:

The Stand by Stephen King. Wow, this is long.

Which version are you reading?

The unabridged version. I finally finished it. What an unbelievably disappointing ending. I’m now reading Cline’s Ready Player One.

26

I enjoyed that. Just don’t take it too seriously, it’s just a fun guilty pleasure, nerd out, type of thing.

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dahmage said:

Mike O said:

ray_afraid said:

Mike O said:

The Stand by Stephen King. Wow, this is long.

Which version are you reading?

The unabridged version. I finally finished it. What an unbelievably disappointing ending. I’m now reading Cline’s Ready Player One.

26

I enjoyed that. Just don’t take it too seriously, it’s just a fun guilty pleasure, nerd out, type of thing.

I was going for that, but when the main character straight up says to the effect of “this thing I’m doing… it’s meh. Your reading me do it is also meh.” I can’t nerd out to that when it sticks in my craw.

TV’s Frink said:

chyron just put a big Ric pic in your sig and be done with it.

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chyron8472 said:

dahmage said:

Mike O said:

ray_afraid said:

Mike O said:

The Stand by Stephen King. Wow, this is long.

Which version are you reading?

The unabridged version. I finally finished it. What an unbelievably disappointing ending. I’m now reading Cline’s Ready Player One.

26

I enjoyed that. Just don’t take it too seriously, it’s just a fun guilty pleasure, nerd out, type of thing.

I was going for that, but when the main character straight up says to the effect of “this thing I’m doing… it’s meh. Your reading me do it is also meh.” I can’t nerd out to that when it sticks in my craw.

I just consider the character to be a dumb kid who is sadly wrong about much of life. There is no rule that says protagonists are always right is there? 😋

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I’ve been trying different audiobook server software lately, because my regular media server setup doesn’t remember what track/chapter I’m on. So many people on the web mention Booksonic or Subsonic or Emby, but all of those have their own failings and I haven’t found a good substitute yet.

For instance, in Booksonic/Subsonic I can’t get it to easily tell what local album art I want it to use, I can’t disable swipe gestures on mobile, and I can’t rename book albums with custom titles or make it use metadata instead of folder names.

I just want to listen to Ender’s Game; have it say “Ender’s Game” and not “Ender 1 - Ender’s Game”; use this local art file and not that one; add the whole book to the queue when I select a single track; and remember what track I last listened to. But apparently I can’t have all of that.

TV’s Frink said:

chyron just put a big Ric pic in your sig and be done with it.

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chyron8472 said:

Mike O said:

ray_afraid said:

Mike O said:

The Stand by Stephen King. Wow, this is long.

Which version are you reading?

I’m now reading Cline’s Ready Player One.

Good luck with that. I couldn’t get past his pages-long soul-crushing tirade about how the idea of God is stupid, that he’s smart for realizing it, and then goes back to lamenting how pointless life is and at least he has Family Ties reruns to keep him busy.

I don’t know Cline’s own personal religious views (I think he’s an atheist), but I found the scene in the book more than ramblings of an angry adolescent who’s sort of mad at the world than any particular statement about religion. In any case, it’s just a book.

dahmage said:

Mike O said:

ray_afraid said:

Mike O said:

The Stand by Stephen King. Wow, this is long.

Which version are you reading?

The unabridged version. I finally finished it. What an unbelievably disappointing ending. I’m now reading Cline’s Ready Player One.

26

I enjoyed that. Just don’t take it too seriously, it’s just a fun guilty pleasure, nerd out, type of thing.

It’s fun up to a point.

I can see by your eyes you must be lying
When you think I don’t have a clue
Baby you’re crazy
If you think that you can fool me
Because I’ve seen that movie too
Elton John

“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.”

Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death

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I read 13 of the 20 stories in this book (not counting A Christmas Carol, which I did read, but as its own separate book years ago). Of those thirteen, I only really liked five: “The Ghosts of the Mail”, “A Madman’s Manuscript”, “The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton”, “Christmas Ghosts”, and “The Signal-Man”; the remaining eight ran the gamut from “meh” to “not bad” to “would’ve been excellent if it weren’t for the poor ending”. Sorry to say this book ain’t a keeper.

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I notice you’re using a scale of 1 - 9 these days.

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Goddamn spammers! Stopping spamming this thread with spam! It’s not halal!

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