NOOK Readers, Nuala is Coming Your Way...

Boy, if I had known that Pubit! was so easy, I would have done this months ago. Loading my books up to Amazon, and getting them to work in Amazon's meat grinder, was a PITA.

On the other hand, thanks to all the hard work of people like Vonda McIntyre and Chris Dolley at Book View Cafe (and may I recommend them as talented SF writers with wonderful, screwy senses of humor?) my epubs look great on NOOK for PC.

NOOK is now in the running as the reader I am most likely to want when I have extra cash to get one.

Okay, Barnes & Noble has something weird in their upload

Apparently you can't put in reviews unless you put in the first and last name of who did the review. Ah-HUM years ago, LOCUS used initials for some of the reviewers, not names. RAVE REVIEWS didn't use names at all, as I recall. That's probably different now.

But I can't do anything about that.

So we'll see how the system handles "first name" LOCUS, "last name" Magazine....

Five Reviews to Go

Thank you, 6_penny!

Cable hates me

My DVR box has stopped recording any series on Comedy Central. Since I tape Daily Show and Colbert, this is very annoying. They can't get it to work from Time-Warner central, so they're sending someone out here to steal my box.

I have 20+ hours of viewing on here, from being out of town two months and trying to keep up with current things and whittle away at this stuff. Of course I will lose it all, because I do not have time to watch it all today. (Have made a valiant attempt since the appointment was made.)

This box never has worked well. It constantly resets itself, causing me to lose episodes and not know what's going on. I gave up on Fringe, after missing six episodes.

The whole idea of DVR is that I should not have to tend it constantly, after setting it. If I have to check every time I want something taped -- or every time I leave town for five minutes (and I DID check, and according to the DVR, it's recording these series just fine, thanks) then what is the point?

They are not going to make it hard for me to cancel my cable when I move. I'll just let Internet plans duke it out.

In the meantime, there's a PBS special on the War of 1812 I need to see.