On 2019-03-23 7:56 a.m., heyjoe wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 03:15:53 -0700 (PDT)
> in Message-ID:
> >
> Cindy Hamilton > wrote :
>
>> no more books
>> are being purchased by libraries.
>
> That's not the case here. Multiple copies of at least a dozen newly
> written books by popular authors are purchased each month. Often,
> there's a waiting list to check out the really popular authors.
>
One of the books I want to read has a waiting list of over 800 on about
100 copies. Another has over 400 waiting on 40 copies. When interest
flags, they'll send most of them to a re-seller for cents on the dollar.

On 2019-03-23 10:08 a.m., wrote:
> On Saturday, March 23, 2019 at 8:03:19 AM UTC-5, graham wrote:
>>
>> On 2019-03-23 4:15 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>
>>> On Saturday, March 23, 2019 at 1:10:11 AM UTC-4, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>
>>>> I no longer go to the library. I did go as a child and young adult but I
>>>> quit going when I felt I had read everything of interest.
>>>
>>> Apparently the publishing industry has packed it in and no more books
>>> are being purchased by libraries.
>>>
>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>
>> Not so in Calgary which has the most heavily used library system in
>> N.America.
>>
> She was being snarky to Ju-Ju, our resident village idiot.
>
I missed that unfortunately. Bove is our current "village idiot".

On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 10:01:18 -0500,
wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 02:49:37 -0500, Sqwertz >
> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 18:46:04 -0500,
wrote:
>>
>>> Hello I am a 40ish single male, disabled and love to cook. There is a
>>> specific way that I cook that suits me best. It is all about bulk
>>> cooking. The bulk cooking is precooking most of the foods and freezing
>>> them
>>
>>You're new here.
>
> Well at least you got one thing correct.
>
>> So you don't know you've convinced us you're a
>>shittier cook
>
> Have you attempted any <any at all> of the recipes that I have listed?

Of course not. I've been homeless since shortly after you arrived
here. I tore my house down and am still trying to source a
gluten-free builder to build me a gluten-free house from 100%
certified gluten-free materials inside a big gluten-free bubble on
top of gluten-free dirt using gluten-free labor. The old house had
microscopic gluten particles in it.

Didn't you hear? Somebody killed Jesus and Gluten is The Devil.

> Whilest I know and fully understand your level of intelligence or the

Then you'd know you're the only self-diagnosed, non-celiac gluten
intolerant person in the world that thinks he needs to avoid
microscopic gluten and any possibility of cross-contamination(*).
Compounded by the fact that you're so anti-religious that you're
even worse than a bible thumper, all while not believing in
evolution m adaptation, and natural selection either.

(*) That is reserved exclusively for the most severe cases of celiac
disease, and for which there are several tests to confirm such a
condition. Did you ever ask a doctor for an IQ test? Because that
would come back "negative", too.

> being as how being scoped snipped and scoped again have nothing at
> all, and I mean that literally NOTHING at all to do with being tested
> for a gluten sensitivity or celiac

https://www.verywellhealth.com/celia...doscopy-562701

And there's over 1,000 more references to this test on the Web.

Can we get a round of applause for this monumentally ignorant
asshole?

-sw

graham wrote:

> On 2019-03-23 7:56 a.m., heyjoe wrote:
> > On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 03:15:53 -0700 (PDT)
> > in Message-ID:
> > >
> > Cindy Hamilton > wrote :
> >
> >> no more books
> >> are being purchased by libraries.
> >
> > That's not the case here. Multiple copies of at least a dozen newly
> > written books by popular authors are purchased each month. Often,
> > there's a waiting list to check out the really popular authors.
> >
> One of the books I want to read has a waiting list of over 800 on about
> 100 copies. Another has over 400 waiting on 40 copies. When interest
> flags, they'll send most of them to a re-seller for cents on the dollar.


Perfect example of "recycling", graham! I buy many used books online, many have library imprints...some from Canada...

I did not know that Calgary had such a robust public library system, nice to know...

When I visited Prague in the late 70's (I was there both times for some weeks), I visited the lovely reading room/library in the Canadian Embassy, in those days when you were "behind the Iron Curtain" normal news from the West was thin on the ground, so I'd visit the reading rooms of the UK, US and Canadian Embasssies to catch up...

--
Best
Greg

On Saturday, March 23, 2019 at 11:49:59 AM UTC-5, graham wrote:
>
> On 2019-03-23 10:08 a.m., wrote:
> >
> > She was being snarky to Ju-Ju, our resident village idiot.
> >
> I missed that unfortunately. Bove is our current "village idiot".
>
Presently, there are two here that are trying to overtake her and win that title
from her. But I think she's still in the lead position and her title is safe.

In article >,
says...
> On Friday, March 22, 2019 at 4:44:31 PM UTC-4, wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 08:45:58 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> > > wrote:
>
> > >It's a tough sell telling someone who's been cooking for longer than
> > >you've been alive that you know better than they do.
> >
> > wow there are people here over 90ish? Damn I am impressed....
> > I saw a man over a hundred jogging on tv the other day..
> >
> >
> > you assumed that I was 40 or on the lower end of 40...
>

So what else were you lying about when you described yourself as
" a 40ish single male" ?

Janet UK.

On 2019-03-23 12:05 p.m., wrote:
> On Saturday, March 23, 2019 at 5:15:56 AM UTC-5, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

>> Apparently the publishing industry has packed it in and no more books
>> are being purchased by libraries.
>>
>> Cindy Hamilton
>>
> TOO funny! I guess I better tell that used bookstore I frequent they should
> be putting a sign in their window "Going Out of Business" and lock their doors.

I know a woman who runs a publishing a business and it sounds like there
is way too much crap for them to put up with. Its little wonder that
books are so expensive these days. First of all there is the cost of
paper, ink and the presses. There are hefty shipping costs, mainly a
function on their weight. The real killer is the return cost. They have
to take back books that don't sell, and that some of those are in bad
shape. People browsing in book shops get their slimy fingers all over
the books. Then there are places like Chapters that have coffee shops
attached and cheap *******s "borrow" books and magazines from the store
and read then in the coffee shop. Then the marked up books are sent back
to the publisher.

On 2019-03-23 12:49 p.m., graham wrote:
> On 2019-03-23 10:08 a.m., wrote:
>> On Saturday, March 23, 2019 at 8:03:19 AM UTC-5, graham wrote:
>>>
>>
>>> Not so in Calgary which has the most heavily used library system in
>>> N.America.
>>>
>> She was being snarky to Ju-Ju, our resident village idiot.
>>
> I missed that unfortunately. Bove is our current "village idiot".

I had missed that too because I skip over most of her posts. It saves e
the temptation of responding in an appropriately nasty manner. I don't
know how it was possible for so many people here to have defended her
for so long.

On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 13:04:31 -0000, "Ophelia" >
wrote:

>
>
>"Bruce" wrote in message ...
>
>On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 22:09:54 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
...
>>> On 2019-03-22 2:34 p.m., Jinx the Minx wrote:
>>>> graham > wrote:
>>>>> I treat my grandchildren to books at any time. I don't consider them as
>>>>> luxuries but necessities.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Me too. I buy my daughter all the books she wants. I view it as an
>>>> investment in her future. I just wish she’d take an interest in reading
>>>> some of my childhood favorite books. :-)
>>>
>>> I was never much of a reader when I was a kid. I didn't care much for
>>> kids
>>> books, kids movies or cartoons. I do lots of reading now, usually at
>>> least a book a week. We made sure to read to our son every night and he
>>> became a very avid reader. While we bought him lots of books over the
>>> years we encouraged him to use the library.
>>>
>>> I have to wonder about some of the parents I see with their kids at the
>>> library. They go to the checkout and each kid has more than a dozen
>>> books. I appreciate that the kids are interested in reading, but I think
>>> that is really abusing a free service. They can take a few, read them,
>>> bring them back and get some more. Leave something for other people.
>>> People abuse the DVDs too. One day the woman checking out ahead of me
>>> had
>>> more than 2 dozen videos. That's more than three videos a day for the
>>> one week loan period. I would have no problem with a 3 movie limit.
>>
>>I outgrew kids books very quickly and was reading adult books in the 2nd
>>grade.
>>
>>I no longer go to the library. I did go as a child and young adult but I
>>quit going when I felt I had read everything of interest. It was not
>>uncommon for me to get 10-12 books at a time. We could check them out for
>>two weeks at a time. I could easily read them all by then. I'm a very fast
>>reader and unless the book is unusually long, can finish it in two ours or
>>less.
>
>I switched to ebooks. It turns out there are whole binary newsgroups
>where authors are giving their books away!
>
>==
>
>I have ebooks too. Something to read on my phone if I am having to wait
>somewhere.

Yes!

On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 13:39:46 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2019-03-23 12:49 p.m., graham wrote:
>> On 2019-03-23 10:08 a.m., wrote:
>>> On Saturday, March 23, 2019 at 8:03:19 AM UTC-5, graham wrote:
>>>>
>>>
>>>> Not so in Calgary which has the most heavily used library system in
>>>> N.America.
>>>>
>>> She was being snarky to Ju-Ju, our resident village idiot.
>>>
>> I missed that unfortunately. Bove is our current "village idiot".
>
>I had missed that too because I skip over most of her posts. It saves e
>the temptation of responding in an appropriately nasty manner. I don't
>know how it was possible for so many people here to have defended her
>for so long.

You still constantly bitch to her and about her, so I don't know what
you think you're "skipping".

On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 10:03:45 -0700 (PDT), GM
> wrote:

>graham wrote:
>
>> On 2019-03-23 7:56 a.m., heyjoe wrote:
>> > On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 03:15:53 -0700 (PDT)
>> > in Message-ID:
>> > >
>> > Cindy Hamilton > wrote :
>> >
>> >> no more books
>> >> are being purchased by libraries.
>> >
>> > That's not the case here. Multiple copies of at least a dozen newly
>> > written books by popular authors are purchased each month. Often,
>> > there's a waiting list to check out the really popular authors.
>> >
>> One of the books I want to read has a waiting list of over 800 on about
>> 100 copies. Another has over 400 waiting on 40 copies. When interest
>> flags, they'll send most of them to a re-seller for cents on the dollar.
>
>
>Perfect example of "recycling", graham! I buy many used books online, many have library imprints...some from Canada...
>
>I did not know that Calgary had such a robust public library system, nice to know...

Yes, I'll sleep a lot better now.

On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 13:24:13 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2019-03-23 12:05 p.m., wrote:
>> On Saturday, March 23, 2019 at 5:15:56 AM UTC-5, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>
>>> Apparently the publishing industry has packed it in and no more books
>>> are being purchased by libraries.
>>>
>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>
>> TOO funny! I guess I better tell that used bookstore I frequent they should
>> be putting a sign in their window "Going Out of Business" and lock their doors.
>
>I know a woman who runs a publishing a business and it sounds like there
>is way too much crap for them to put up with. Its little wonder that
>books are so expensive these days. First of all there is the cost of
>paper, ink and the presses. There are hefty shipping costs, mainly a
>function on their weight. The real killer is the return cost. They have
>to take back books that don't sell, and that some of those are in bad
>shape. People browsing in book shops get their slimy fingers all over
>the books. Then there are places like Chapters that have coffee shops
>attached and cheap *******s "borrow" books and magazines from the store
>and read then in the coffee shop.

Ah, it took a bit longer than normal, but there's the bitchin'.

On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 11:19:21 -0500,
wrote:

>On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 14:01:24 +1100, Bruce >
>wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:29:16 -0500,
wrote:
>>
>>>On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 08:59:02 +1100, Bruce >
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 16:37:36 -0500,
wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:17:49 -0600, graham > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On 2019-03-22 9:39 a.m., Terry Coombs wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Some kids do still read ... our grandkids (all 5 of 'em) are very
>>>>>>> disappointed if they don't get books as gifts for occasions like
>>>>>>> birthdays or Christmas .
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>I treat my grandchildren to books at any time. I don't consider them as
>>>>>>luxuries but necessities.
>>>>>
>>>>>books are the best gift to get, I mean actual books not the ebook
>>>>>crap.... Have you ever tried to regift an ebook... I tried to do that
>>>>>once and broke my damn printer.
>>>>
>>>>Ebooks are great. You buy them, download them right away, read them
>>>>and delete them. And I have no idea what your printer had to with it
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>.... hmmmm....
>>>
>>>Regifting an ebook....
>>>printers......
>>>hmmmm.....
>>>
>>>think about it for a minute you will get it
>>
>>Don't tell me you print ebooks to give them to someone else.
>
>are you still missing the pun.. (regifting) ebooks???????
>
>FOR THE LOVE OF A NON EXISTENT GOD.. IT IS AN EBOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>If I printed it out it would no longer be an ebook...

I must be missing out on something incredibly funny.

On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 11:31:23 -0500, Gary > wrote:

>Terry Coombs wrote:
>>
>> Â Some kids do still read ... our grandkids (all 5 of 'em) are very
>> disappointed if they don't get books as gifts for occasions like
>> birthdays or Christmas .
>
>IMO, books are always a great gift. Real paper books, not
>E-Books. I think this digital age has gone too far and nuts.
>Doomed to crash and fail someday. Even my library is failing
>these days.

Old fart. Ebooks are great.

On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 11:34:41 -0500, Gary > wrote:

>Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>
>> I've been cooking for more than
>> 50 years,
>
>and STILL can't get it right! (JK, Cindy)

It doesn't work if you immediately add "J/K". You should say it, wait
until she gets really worked up and _then_ say "J/K".

On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 GM gregorymorrowchicago wrote:
>graham wrote:
>
>> I treat my grandchildren to books at any time. I don't consider them as
>> luxuries but necessities.
>
>I'm gifting the local "Young Readers Club" at a local library with my collection of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan biographies...

I gift the grands with How-To books, At four years old I got one
grandson a book about fishing, he becams so enamored that now at 15
has a large collection of books about fishing and fish and owns quite
a collection of fishing gear. Each year at summer camp he's the
fishing marshal.

On 2019-03-23 11:03 a.m., GM wrote:
> graham wrote:
>
>> On 2019-03-23 7:56 a.m., heyjoe wrote:
>>> On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 03:15:53 -0700 (PDT)
>>> in Message-ID:
>>> >
>>> Cindy Hamilton > wrote :
>>>
>>>> no more books
>>>> are being purchased by libraries.
>>>
>>> That's not the case here. Multiple copies of at least a dozen newly
>>> written books by popular authors are purchased each month. Often,
>>> there's a waiting list to check out the really popular authors.
>>>
>> One of the books I want to read has a waiting list of over 800 on about
>> 100 copies. Another has over 400 waiting on 40 copies. When interest
>> flags, they'll send most of them to a re-seller for cents on the dollar.
>
>
> Perfect example of "recycling", graham! I buy many used books online, many have library imprints...some from Canada...
>
> I did not know that Calgary had such a robust public library system, nice to know...
>
We have a really dynamic director, ISTR poached from Seattle where the
Gates family are enthusiastic library members.

"Bruce" wrote in message ...

On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 11:19:21 -0500,
wrote:

>On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 14:01:24 +1100, Bruce >
>wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:29:16 -0500,
wrote:
>>
>>>On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 08:59:02 +1100, Bruce >
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 16:37:36 -0500,
wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:17:49 -0600, graham > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On 2019-03-22 9:39 a.m., Terry Coombs wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Some kids do still read ... our grandkids (all 5 of 'em) are very
>>>>>>> disappointed if they don't get books as gifts for occasions like
>>>>>>> birthdays or Christmas .
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>I treat my grandchildren to books at any time. I don't consider them
>>>>>>as
>>>>>>luxuries but necessities.
>>>>>
>>>>>books are the best gift to get, I mean actual books not the ebook
>>>>>crap.... Have you ever tried to regift an ebook... I tried to do that
>>>>>once and broke my damn printer.
>>>>
>>>>Ebooks are great. You buy them, download them right away, read them
>>>>and delete them. And I have no idea what your printer had to with it
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>.... hmmmm....
>>>
>>>Regifting an ebook....
>>>printers......
>>>hmmmm.....
>>>
>>>think about it for a minute you will get it
>>
>>Don't tell me you print ebooks to give them to someone else.
>
>are you still missing the pun.. (regifting) ebooks???????
>
>FOR THE LOVE OF A NON EXISTENT GOD.. IT IS AN EBOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>If I printed it out it would no longer be an ebook...

I must be missing out on something incredibly funny.

==

I am still wondering where the printer came in ..

On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 11:34:41 -0500, Gary > wrote:

>Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>
>> I've been cooking for more than
>> 50 years,
>
>and STILL can't get it right! (JK, Cindy)

OHHH BAM.. You go gary!!! BITCH SLAP!!

KA POWIE!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw9-xVCmLP0




--

____/~~~sine qua non~~~\____

On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 17:11:36 -0000, Janet > wrote:

>In article >,
says...
>> On Friday, March 22, 2019 at 4:44:31 PM UTC-4, wrote:
>> > On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 08:45:58 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
>> > > wrote:
>>
>> > >It's a tough sell telling someone who's been cooking for longer than
>> > >you've been alive that you know better than they do.
>> >
>> > wow there are people here over 90ish? Damn I am impressed....
>> > I saw a man over a hundred jogging on tv the other day..
>> >
>> >
>> > you assumed that I was 40 or on the lower end of 40...
>>
>
> So what else were you lying about when you described yourself as
> " a 40ish single male" ?
>
> Janet UK.


Who said I was lying? I mean besides you??
A 40ish male could mean anything from 40-49

--

____/~~~sine qua non~~~\____

On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 19:18:52 -0000, "Ophelia" >
wrote:

>
>
>"Bruce" wrote in message ...
>
>On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 11:19:21 -0500,
wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 14:01:24 +1100, Bruce >
>>wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:29:16 -0500,
wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 08:59:02 +1100, Bruce >
>>>>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 16:37:36 -0500,
wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:17:49 -0600, graham > wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On 2019-03-22 9:39 a.m., Terry Coombs wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Some kids do still read ... our grandkids (all 5 of 'em) are very
>>>>>>>> disappointed if they don't get books as gifts for occasions like
>>>>>>>> birthdays or Christmas .
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I treat my grandchildren to books at any time. I don't consider them
>>>>>>>as
>>>>>>>luxuries but necessities.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>books are the best gift to get, I mean actual books not the ebook
>>>>>>crap.... Have you ever tried to regift an ebook... I tried to do that
>>>>>>once and broke my damn printer.
>>>>>
>>>>>Ebooks are great. You buy them, download them right away, read them
>>>>>and delete them. And I have no idea what your printer had to with it
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>.... hmmmm....
>>>>
>>>>Regifting an ebook....
>>>>printers......
>>>>hmmmm.....
>>>>
>>>>think about it for a minute you will get it
>>>
>>>Don't tell me you print ebooks to give them to someone else.
>>
>>are you still missing the pun.. (regifting) ebooks???????
>>
>>FOR THE LOVE OF A NON EXISTENT GOD.. IT IS AN EBOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>
>>If I printed it out it would no longer be an ebook...
>
>I must be missing out on something incredibly funny.
>
>==
>
>I am still wondering where the printer came in ..

That must have been the joke.

"Bruce" wrote in message ...

On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 19:18:52 -0000, "Ophelia" >
wrote:

>
>
>"Bruce" wrote in message
.. .
>
>On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 11:19:21 -0500,
wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 14:01:24 +1100, Bruce >
>>wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:29:16 -0500,
wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 08:59:02 +1100, Bruce >
>>>>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 16:37:36 -0500,
wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:17:49 -0600, graham > wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On 2019-03-22 9:39 a.m., Terry Coombs wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Some kids do still read ... our grandkids (all 5 of 'em) are very
>>>>>>>> disappointed if they don't get books as gifts for occasions like
>>>>>>>> birthdays or Christmas .
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I treat my grandchildren to books at any time. I don't consider them
>>>>>>>as
>>>>>>>luxuries but necessities.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>books are the best gift to get, I mean actual books not the ebook
>>>>>>crap.... Have you ever tried to regift an ebook... I tried to do that
>>>>>>once and broke my damn printer.
>>>>>
>>>>>Ebooks are great. You buy them, download them right away, read them
>>>>>and delete them. And I have no idea what your printer had to with it
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>.... hmmmm....
>>>>
>>>>Regifting an ebook....
>>>>printers......
>>>>hmmmm.....
>>>>
>>>>think about it for a minute you will get it
>>>
>>>Don't tell me you print ebooks to give them to someone else.
>>
>>are you still missing the pun.. (regifting) ebooks???????
>>
>>FOR THE LOVE OF A NON EXISTENT GOD.. IT IS AN EBOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>
>>If I printed it out it would no longer be an ebook...
>
>I must be missing out on something incredibly funny.
>
>==
>
>I am still wondering where the printer came in ..

That must have been the joke.
==

Oooooookaaaaaaaaaaaayyy!!!

On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 09:35:43 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Saturday, March 23, 2019 at 10:50:40 AM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2019-03-23 9:56 a.m., heyjoe wrote:
>> > On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 03:15:53 -0700 (PDT)
>> > in Message-ID:
>> > >
>> > Cindy Hamilton > wrote :
>> >
>> >> no more books
>> >> are being purchased by libraries.
>> >
>> > That's not the case here. Multiple copies of at least a dozen newly
>> > written books by popular authors are purchased each month. Often,
>> > there's a waiting list to check out the really popular authors.
>> >
>>
>>
>> Our town library is certainly buying lots of new books. The first row
>> of shelves is the new material and there is a constant turnover there.
>> they seem to have slowed down a bit on DVD acquisitions. Maybe they are
>> concerned about a change of format. It wasn't that long ago they were
>> buying VHS. Sadly, they stopped buying CDs and disposed of those they had.
>
>When will I learn to eschew sarcasm on Usenet? It just doesn't
>play here.

It's OK, Cindy. Some of us got it.

Doris

On 3/23/2019 4:21 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>
>
> "Bruce"Â* wrote in message
> ...
>
> On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 19:18:52 -0000, "Ophelia" >
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> "Bruce"Â* wrote in message
>> ...
>>
>> On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 11:19:21 -0500,
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 14:01:24 +1100, Bruce >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:29:16 -0500,
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 08:59:02 +1100, Bruce >
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 16:37:36 -0500,
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:17:49 -0600, graham > wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 2019-03-22 9:39 a.m., Terry Coombs wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Some kids do still read ... our grandkids (all 5 of 'em) are very
>>>>>>>>> disappointed if they don't get books as gifts for occasions like
>>>>>>>>> birthdays or Christmas .
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I treat my grandchildren to books at any time. I don't consider
>>>>>>>> them
>>>>>>>> as
>>>>>>>> luxuries but necessities.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> books are the best gift to get, I mean actual books not the ebook
>>>>>>> crap.... Have you ever tried to regift an ebook... I tried to do
>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>> once and broke my damn printer.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ebooks are great. You buy them, download them right away, read them
>>>>>> and delete them. And I have no idea what your printer had to with it
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> .... hmmmm....
>>>>>
>>>>> Regifting an ebook....
>>>>> printers......
>>>>> hmmmm.....
>>>>>
>>>>> think about it for a minute you will get it
>>>>
>>>> Don't tell me you print ebooks to give them to someone else.
>>>
>>> are you still missing theÂ* pun.. (regifting) ebooks???????
>>>
>>> FOR THE LOVE OF A NON EXISTENT GOD.. IT IS AN EBOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>>
>>> If I printed it out it would no longer be an ebook...
>>
>> I must be missing out on something incredibly funny.
>>
>> ==
>>
>> I am still wondering where the printer came in ..
>
> That must have been the joke.
> ==
>
> Oooooookaaaaaaaaaaaayyy!!!
>
I can see it. If the person you want to give the book to does not have
a reader or computer, you print it for them.

On 3/23/2019 8:07 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 3/23/2019 4:21 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>>
>>
>> "Bruce"Â* wrote in message
>> ...
>>
>> On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 19:18:52 -0000, "Ophelia" >
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Bruce"Â* wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>
>>> On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 11:19:21 -0500,
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 14:01:24 +1100, Bruce >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:29:16 -0500,
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 08:59:02 +1100, Bruce >
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 16:37:36 -0500,
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:17:49 -0600, graham >
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 2019-03-22 9:39 a.m., Terry Coombs wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Some kids do still read ... our grandkids (all 5 of 'em) are very
>>>>>>>>>> disappointed if they don't get books as gifts for occasions like
>>>>>>>>>> birthdays or Christmas .
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I treat my grandchildren to books at any time. I don't consider
>>>>>>>>> them
>>>>>>>>> as
>>>>>>>>> luxuries but necessities.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> books are the best gift to get, I mean actual books not the ebook
>>>>>>>> crap.... Have you ever tried to regift an ebook... I tried to do
>>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>>> once and broke my damn printer.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ebooks are great. You buy them, download them right away, read them
>>>>>>> and delete them. And I have no idea what your printer had to with it
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> .... hmmmm....
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regifting an ebook....
>>>>>> printers......
>>>>>> hmmmm.....
>>>>>>
>>>>>> think about it for a minute you will get it
>>>>>
>>>>> Don't tell me you print ebooks to give them to someone else.
>>>>
>>>> are you still missing theÂ* pun.. (regifting) ebooks???????
>>>>
>>>> FOR THE LOVE OF A NON EXISTENT GOD.. IT IS AN EBOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>>>
>>>> If I printed it out it would no longer be an ebook...
>>>
>>> I must be missing out on something incredibly funny.
>>>
>>> ==
>>>
>>> I am still wondering where the printer came in ..
>>
>> That must have been the joke.
>> ==
>>
>> Oooooookaaaaaaaaaaaayyy!!!
>>
> I can see it.Â* If the person you want to give the book to does not have
> a reader or computer, you print it for them.

LOL Or you could just give them a paper copy of the book.

Jill

On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 20:07:36 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On 3/23/2019 4:21 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>>
>>
>> "Bruce"* wrote in message
>> ...
>>
>> On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 19:18:52 -0000, "Ophelia" >
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Bruce"* wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>
>>> On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 11:19:21 -0500,
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 14:01:24 +1100, Bruce >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:29:16 -0500,
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Regifting an ebook....
>>>>>> printers......
>>>>>> hmmmm.....
>>>>>>
>>>>>> think about it for a minute you will get it
>>>>>
>>>>> Don't tell me you print ebooks to give them to someone else.
>>>>
>>>> are you still missing the* pun.. (regifting) ebooks???????
>>>>
>>>> FOR THE LOVE OF A NON EXISTENT GOD.. IT IS AN EBOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>>>
>>>> If I printed it out it would no longer be an ebook...
>>>
>>> I must be missing out on something incredibly funny.
>>>
>>> ==
>>>
>>> I am still wondering where the printer came in ..
>>
>> That must have been the joke.
>> ==
>>
>> Oooooookaaaaaaaaaaaayyy!!!
>>
>I can see it. If the person you want to give the book to does not have
>a reader or computer, you print it for them.

They'll have to read the book during the day, because they won't have
electricity either.

wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 GM gregorymorrowchicago wrote:
>> graham wrote:
>>
>>> I treat my grandchildren to books at any time. I don't consider them as
>>> luxuries but necessities.
>>
>> I'm gifting the local "Young Readers Club" at a local library with my collection of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan biographies...
>
> I gift the grands with How-To books, At four years old I got one
> grandson a book about fishing, he becams so enamored that now at 15
> has a large collection of books about fishing and fish and owns quite
> a collection of fishing gear. Each year at summer camp he's the
> fishing marshal.
>

Good thing yoose didn't give him a how to book on molesting and raping
wimmens Popeye!

Next thing yoose know, he'd be in the navy with an anchor tattooed on
his peepee, molesting nuns in the vatican.

On Sun, 24 Mar 2019 12:22:17 +1100, Bruce >
wrote:

>On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 20:07:36 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
>
>>On 3/23/2019 4:21 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> "Bruce"* wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>
>>> On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 19:18:52 -0000, "Ophelia" >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Bruce"* wrote in message
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 11:19:21 -0500,
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 14:01:24 +1100, Bruce >
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:29:16 -0500,
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regifting an ebook....
>>>>>>> printers......
>>>>>>> hmmmm.....
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> think about it for a minute you will get it
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Don't tell me you print ebooks to give them to someone else.
>>>>>
>>>>> are you still missing the* pun.. (regifting) ebooks???????
>>>>>
>>>>> FOR THE LOVE OF A NON EXISTENT GOD.. IT IS AN EBOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>>>>
>>>>> If I printed it out it would no longer be an ebook...
>>>>
>>>> I must be missing out on something incredibly funny.
>>>>
>>>> ==
>>>>
>>>> I am still wondering where the printer came in ..
>>>
>>> That must have been the joke.
>>> ==
>>>
>>> Oooooookaaaaaaaaaaaayyy!!!
>>>
>>I can see it. If the person you want to give the book to does not have
>>a reader or computer, you print it for them.
>
>They'll have to read the book during the day, because they won't have
>electricity either.


The joke was not in the printer, the joke was regifting an ebook......
YOU CAN NOT REGIFT AN EBOOK...

Hence the printer

I am assuming you know what regifting is....

--

____/~~~sine qua non~~~\____

"Ed Pawlowski" wrote in message ...

On 3/23/2019 4:21 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>
>
> "Bruce" wrote in message
> ...
>
> On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 19:18:52 -0000, "Ophelia" >
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> "Bruce" wrote in message
>> ...
>>
>> On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 11:19:21 -0500,
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 14:01:24 +1100, Bruce >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:29:16 -0500,
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 08:59:02 +1100, Bruce >
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 16:37:36 -0500,
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:17:49 -0600, graham > wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 2019-03-22 9:39 a.m., Terry Coombs wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Some kids do still read ... our grandkids (all 5 of 'em) are very
>>>>>>>>> disappointed if they don't get books as gifts for occasions like
>>>>>>>>> birthdays or Christmas .
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I treat my grandchildren to books at any time. I don't consider
>>>>>>>> them
>>>>>>>> as
>>>>>>>> luxuries but necessities.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> books are the best gift to get, I mean actual books not the ebook
>>>>>>> crap.... Have you ever tried to regift an ebook... I tried to do
>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>> once and broke my damn printer.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ebooks are great. You buy them, download them right away, read them
>>>>>> and delete them. And I have no idea what your printer had to with it
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> .... hmmmm....
>>>>>
>>>>> Regifting an ebook....
>>>>> printers......
>>>>> hmmmm.....
>>>>>
>>>>> think about it for a minute you will get it
>>>>
>>>> Don't tell me you print ebooks to give them to someone else.
>>>
>>> are you still missing the pun.. (regifting) ebooks???????
>>>
>>> FOR THE LOVE OF A NON EXISTENT GOD.. IT IS AN EBOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>>
>>> If I printed it out it would no longer be an ebook...
>>
>> I must be missing out on something incredibly funny.
>>
>> ==
>>
>> I am still wondering where the printer came in ..
>
> That must have been the joke.
> ==
>
> Oooooookaaaaaaaaaaaayyy!!!
>
I can see it. If the person you want to give the book to does not have
a reader or computer, you print it for them.

==

Uhuh nod nod nod nod!

Sheldon wrote :
> On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 GM gregorymorrowchicago wrote:
>> graham wrote:
>>
>>> I treat my grandchildren to books at any time. I don't consider them as
>>> luxuries but necessities.
>>
>> I'm gifting the local "Young Readers Club" at a local library with my
>> collection of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan biographies...
>
> I gift the grands with How-To books.
>
On how to be an asshole loser.

https://imgur.com/a/0akrG LOL

E-books are not for me. I would be unspeakably disappointed if I couldn't read an actual printed-on-paper
book, and there is nothing like the smell of a brand new book. ;-))

Our library is too difficult for me to get to...too far away from handicapped spaces...so I buy all the dozens
of books I read every year. I buy some from alibris.com, always choosing hard copies rated very good or
new, and new ones from a retailer which has an online site. When I am finished, I donate them to a small
town library near me (their budgets are pretty small), and if they can't use them, they sell them in their
de-accessed book area which gives them some money to add to their budgets. Sometimes I donate them
to a charity thrift shop. And sometimes, if my budget is a little low, I sell them to a used book store in my
city. I don't get much...about $2/book for brand new best sellers...but it helps when my monthly expenses
need some help. (I generally spend about $150-200 a month on books and new DVDs.). I have only sold them
once in the past year.

I would love to donate my videotapes, along with a player or two, but nobody wants them.

N.

On 3/22/2019 10:15 PM, songbird wrote:
> Terry Coombs wrote:
> ...
>> Â*Â* But , but , Asimov's Foundation series ! I was always a hard SciFi
>> fan , but then Pern , Xanth , and Heinlein's future histories were also
>> part of my range of interests .
> well sure those were good reads, but i liked many
> others besides.
>
> i don't watch tv and haven't for many years. if
> it weren't for books i'd have been in sad shape
> (before the age of the internet came along)...
>
> Xanth was fun for a while, i liked a lot of Piers
> Anthony's books and collected most of them and then
> i thought i was going to move so i got rid of a lot
> of my book collection and then a few weeks later it
> turned out i didn't move so i had to try to get a
> decent book collection built up again. a few of
> those books i never have found again.
>
> for hard science fiction i like Robert Forward's
> books, but in recent times there've not been too
> many author's i've followed much. Alistair Reynolds
> is one i do like a lot.
>
> in the elder days i like Saberhagen's Berzerker
> series and, Gordon Dickson's books and ...
>
> i like to put some fantasy books in from time to
> time just to keep some variety too.
>
> i keep a nice collection of all sort of things
> here at home just in case of the end-times and
> also things i like to re-read and too many old
> college text-books that have no meaning to me now
> other than i spent way too much for them and hate to
> think of turning them into worm food, but for most
> of them they are so out of date (computer science
> texts) they really aren't worth anything or even
> worth reading through again. i do have a paper
> shredder for working through my old college notes
> and stuff i should get rid of to free up some more
> space, but that project is some time in the future
> as right now i'm sorting beans and getting ready
> for spring planting/projects.
>
>
> songbird

Â* I've been getting ready for my 2nd annual Mother's Day Plant Sale .
Actually the couple of days before The Big Day , I sell potted plants at
like a local farmer's market or parking lot somewhere . Starvation wages
, considering all the time involved , but I just can't bring myself to
toss the trimmings . So I pot them ! Right now there are over 80 potted
plants here , not counting seedlings for the garden . I expect to sell
60 or more of those in May .

--
Snag
Yes , I'm old
and crochety - and armed .
Get outta my woods !

it's TOLKIEN

with an I

On Sunday, March 24, 2019 at 7:59:57 AM UTC-5, Julie Bove wrote:
>
> how to be an asshole loser.
>
>
An autobiography by the number 1 loser here, Ju-Ju.

In article >, Terry Coombs
> wrote:

> Right now there are over 80 potted
> plants here , not counting seedlings for the garden . I expect to sell
> 60 or more of those in May .

I've been told that you can make more money selling 80 pot plants. You
might even get rich in May. I can't remember where I heard that.

leo

On Saturday, March 23, 2019 at 1:55:59 PM UTC-5, Sheldon wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 GM gregorymorrowchicago wrote:
> >graham wrote:
> >
> >> I treat my grandchildren to books at any time. I don't consider them as
> >> luxuries but necessities.
> >
> >I'm gifting the local "Young Readers Club" at a local library with my collection of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan biographies...
>
> I gift the grands with How-To books, At four years old I got one
> grandson a book about fishing, he becams so enamored that now at 15
> has a large collection of books about fishing and fish and owns quite
> a collection of fishing gear. Each year at summer camp he's the
> fishing marshal.

Fishing Marshall? Like the Angler Police or sumpin? Bah! Power GRAB! :-(

EVIL!!

John Kuthe, Climate Anarchist!