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walkitoutIt’s Blue and Gold day at the junior high and A. is wearing her new (from December) blue and gold disney 50th dress with gold Amazon leggings. It’s … adorable. And utterly perfect as an outfit choice in general and specifically today. I am kind of in awe of my daughter’s craft with outfits. She thinks of herself as an actor, and these are her costumes, but not in a _bad_ way. I love it.
I was up until after midnight last night NOT reading a book, but puttering with my library. This is a thing I used to do all the time, back when my library had physicality, and since I’ve almost entirely stopped buying paper books and gotten rid of most of my paper books, puttering and rearranging my library has felt like a thing of the past. Years ago, I tried to sort my kindle e-books into “collections” but gave it up, because it was painfully Not the Same. But recently I realized that there is a form of puttering with my kindle library that feels exactly the same as puttering with physical books once did, right down to the Keep Doing It Even Tho I’m Tired and Should Take a Break aspect of it. Basically, I’ve been going through, removing things read from my kindle, and identifying books bought in the past that I have NOT read, but have some interest in reading, and putting them onto my kindle. I have an oasis (from 2019 — it’s still fine, and I’m kind hoping a color kindle happens soonish), so there’s tons of space on there for books. Obviously, I can download books wherever I am. The issue is remembering that I own a book and downloading it when I’m in the mood to read it often takes long enough that it eats into the time to read. But if I had a bunch of books just sitting there, I can open the kindle, open the current one and carry on. This all seems very obvious, and probably everyone else is quite good about this, except I know from legendary stories of endless TBRs that there are a lot of people like me out there, too. Recently, one of the organized people posted their next stack of books to read on FB, and I didn’t want to read any of those books, but it did get me thinking. And I’m glad it did. That was hugely fun and I should do it vigorously and more frequently.
I was up until after midnight last night NOT reading a book, but puttering with my library. This is a thing I used to do all the time, back when my library had physicality, and since I’ve almost entirely stopped buying paper books and gotten rid of most of my paper books, puttering and rearranging my library has felt like a thing of the past. Years ago, I tried to sort my kindle e-books into “collections” but gave it up, because it was painfully Not the Same. But recently I realized that there is a form of puttering with my kindle library that feels exactly the same as puttering with physical books once did, right down to the Keep Doing It Even Tho I’m Tired and Should Take a Break aspect of it. Basically, I’ve been going through, removing things read from my kindle, and identifying books bought in the past that I have NOT read, but have some interest in reading, and putting them onto my kindle. I have an oasis (from 2019 — it’s still fine, and I’m kind hoping a color kindle happens soonish), so there’s tons of space on there for books. Obviously, I can download books wherever I am. The issue is remembering that I own a book and downloading it when I’m in the mood to read it often takes long enough that it eats into the time to read. But if I had a bunch of books just sitting there, I can open the kindle, open the current one and carry on. This all seems very obvious, and probably everyone else is quite good about this, except I know from legendary stories of endless TBRs that there are a lot of people like me out there, too. Recently, one of the organized people posted their next stack of books to read on FB, and I didn’t want to read any of those books, but it did get me thinking. And I’m glad it did. That was hugely fun and I should do it vigorously and more frequently.
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Date: 2023-02-17 11:25 pm (UTC)Buying vs. downloading
Date: 2023-02-18 06:34 pm (UTC)But yeah, I paid for them, but I didn’t necessarily initiate the purchase, nor was I ever specifically aware of some of them.
Also, there are definitely books that I bought many devices ago, or on a phone, ipad or computer, which I never got around to downloading to the current main reading device; getting things _onto_ that device (and removing things I’ve finished reading or rereading recently) was the main project.
If someone had come up to me when I was … under 35, say … and told me, you will someday allow people to buy things using your credentials (secondary card on an account, login credentials, hotel charging privileges, whatever), and you will so comprehensively not care that you will not consistently check the amounts charged, much less what was bought, I would have laughed like a hyena and then said, No. That will not happen.
Another example of Younger Walkitout’s failures of imagination.