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Re: The Reading Corner.
« Reply #795 on: July 26, 2025, 02:28:26 pm »
Rereading Commodore Hornblower by E.S. Forester starting a few nights back.

My eyesight has gone downhill tangibly since the last read not that many years ago - I could use a pt. or two bigger type to really enjoy this.
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Re: The Reading Corner.
« Reply #796 on: July 26, 2025, 04:32:08 pm »
Quote from: Buster's Uncle on July 26, 2025, 02:28:26 pm
Rereading Commodore Hornblower by E.S. Forester starting a few nights back.

My eyesight has gone downhill tangibly since the last read not that many years ago - I could use a pt. or two bigger type to really enjoy this.

If anything, that's a benefit if one uses ebooks. Most ereader devices (or apps) can enlarge the text.
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Re: The Reading Corner.
« Reply #797 on: July 26, 2025, 04:41:26 pm »
I've never tried that, and I'm a practicing miser.

HowEVER - I've got a sister who likes throwing money at tech toys and finds me hard to get for for gift occasions, so I gotta run upstairs now....
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« Reply #798 on: July 27, 2025, 08:33:53 pm »
Buncle, I have the kindle app on my phone, the app is free and there are lots of free classics you can download, I definitely have the text enlarged most of the time when I'm reading on it.  I've got Kindle on my computer too though, which is awesome to have a full page and be able to type notes right next to what you're reading.
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Re: The Reading Corner.
« Reply #799 on: July 27, 2025, 08:38:08 pm »
I don't cell phone, and that isn't changing.  Good to know, though.
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Re: The Reading Corner.
« Reply #800 on: July 27, 2025, 08:42:33 pm »
Quote from: Buster's Uncle on July 27, 2025, 08:38:08 pm
I don't cell phone, and that isn't changing.  Good to know, though.

I'm jealous, I've got personal, work, and rental phones that I get to juggle, in 10 years my hands will have turned into claws for how much I have to hold those idiot bricks.
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Re: The Reading Corner.
« Reply #801 on: July 27, 2025, 08:50:48 pm »
And this is why I don't and won't cell phone.

Real phones are a pain and a disruption made of some breathtakingly bad manners all too often, and even if I ever went anywhere, I'd hardly feel motivated to make it easier to bother me...
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« Reply #802 on: July 27, 2025, 08:56:54 pm »
Necessary evil for me it seems, but I'm happy for you.
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Re: The Reading Corner.
« Reply #803 on: July 27, 2025, 09:00:18 pm »
Mind, I've centered my life around a job where I get a lot of PMs, and you know how I feel about those and ought to recall why.
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Re: The Reading Corner.
« Reply #804 on: July 27, 2025, 09:03:01 pm »
My wife gets PMS too, do you want some chocolate?
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Re: The Reading Corner.
« Reply #805 on: July 27, 2025, 09:04:25 pm »
Yes.

Yes I do.
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