FORKNI-L
Digest - 19 Feb 2014 to 20 Feb 2014 (#2014-36)
Thu, 20 Feb 2014
There are 2 messages totaling 67 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. looking for...
2. reading fanfic - tablets vs PCs
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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 00:04:41 -0500
From: Laura Davies <bratling2@g.......>
Subject: looking for...
I'm looking for a copy of April French's The Sceptre... it was the season
finale of Sons of Lilith. Does anyone have one?
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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 06:43:33 -0500
From: Greer Watson <gwatson2@r.......>
Subject: Re: reading fanfic - tablets vs PCs
This is an interesting discussion--especially the fact that there are still
those who prefer to print the stories out to read.
When I first went on line, I always printed off all but the shortest
stories. Rather than simply throw out (or recycle) the paper after I'd read
them, I put them in binders. Since I've been in successive throes of moving
for three years now, they've been inaccessibly boxed and stored. But the
truth is that I found that reading print-out had disadvantages.
Not so much the amount of paper (though really *long* stories do use a lot),
because it's actually the longest ones that are best read on the sofa: it's
softer seating.
No, it's the fact that, if you put the stories in a binder, the edge jabs
into your stomach when you read. If you simply staple the pages at the
corner, you have to awkwardly flip them over, which gets increasingly
unwieldy, especially with the longer stories. Or you try to staple down the
side, and can't open it properly for lack of a proper binding allowance.
And, of course, if you don't bind or staple the sheets together at all, at
some point you're pretty well sure to drop the whole lot on the floor.
So, like most folks, I have long since taken to reading off the screen. (I
use a PC. I don't have any of the smaller electronics.) Maybe it just took
my tush a while to get used to long sessions sitting on my computer chair.
Also I had to get my finger muscles in trim for all that scrolling down.
Mind you, there are still things that I print out. Wars, definitely. I've
a fine fat binder full of War 15. The advantage there is that I can shift
things round for optimal order should I want to re-read it all at some
point.
Greer
gwatson2@r.......
http://www.foreverknight.org/FK4/
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