(no subject)

[donutsweeper]

As a kid I heard Yiddish phrases and words now and again. My grandparents had grown up in New York City speaking it fluently (to the extent that for one the first time they'd ever heard English was their first day of school) and my parents understood it quite well, although spoke it only occasionally.

One phrase I'd heard often was hak maer nish keyn tshaynik (האַק מיר ניט קיין טשײַניק) which I'd learned meant what would be politely translated as 'stop talking nonsense' but really was more along the lines of 'you’re driving me crazy, leave me alone.'

Today I learned it literally translates as 'stop banging my teapot.'

I love language.

Comments

[remydesire.livejournal.com]

I know, but they're so expensive. I got obsessed with ebook readers when they first came out and got several over the years just to try them out but my favorites are still my first loves, the Bebook One and Mini. They're pretty awful at formatting pdf files but they format html files pretty decently. I've been saving fanfic since I was a teenager and most of it in its original html files and I still do that now.

My first ebook reader was the original Sony Reader and I absolutely hated it. It load every ebook in my SD card and that took forever; it would use the title inside the files instead of the file names themselves; and it wouldn't show them in the folders I organized them in.

I was so happy when I found out about the Bebook that I didn't mind buying it from overseas. It reads most of the formats ebooks come in and it's so simple compared to the Sony Reader yet there's so many options for the html formatting.

I've tried the Pocketbook 360. It's pretty and it uses microSD cards but it feels really awful and unintuitive; all the buttons feel like they're in the wrong place.

I've tried the Bebook Neo but the battery drained awfully fast compared to the original Bebooks because of the Wi-Fi option.

I never tried the Kindle though, because it doesn't use external storage.

I love talking ebook readers as you can see.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I read all the time on my ipod touch, but that's as far as I've gotten into the ebook category. Although I use it primarily for fanfiction or old, out of copyright books from Project Gutenberg.

I love gadgets, but, like you said, there's that money issue. I'd rather go without than go into debt.

[remydesire.livejournal.com]

I wished I had that kind of sense a few years ago. Then I would have sold the other ebook readers on ebay instead of giving them to my siblings.