Big_Brian

Dropped in the other night, was very good as far as I remember. Intrododuced myself to the manager and he immediately offered a drink. I dodn't take it as I was having trouble seeing the floor by that point. Nice gesture though.

Not all of them make it home.

You should probably be sure about that.

Why are they wearing bikini's at all?

Wherever you download free movies from. You seem to be thinking of it as looking at a picture of a book. It's more like increasing font size on a word processor like MS Word, or when typing here, change the font size and the text just flows on to the next line automatically, no horizontal scrolling is needed. This is actually the reason that page numbers are meaningless in an ebook - change the font size and you change the number of pages.

You can buy a clip-on book light for the price of a couple of beers. Works on screen or paper.

When I got mine, I downloaded a torrent of 15,000 free books. Not all to my taste, but enough were to keep me going for a while.

Well, Songkran is over, any sign of these stops since, or was it just a one-off "new chief showing his authority" sort of thing?

At 1,500 books you probably mostly filled the memory, it's only 2Gb on that Kindle and not all is available for storage, operating system, etc. needs some. Then indexing needed 50Kb a book. 50Kb x 1,500 = 75Mb just of indexes, which could be why you saw the "full" message. You can check to see if indexing is done. On my version, it's; menu, search, then type a random nonsense word (something like "aasdffgfdasa" that WON'T be found) and hit search, you'll get "items not yet indexed" and a number. That's the books still to be indexed, you can click on it to see which books. Of course, if your Kindle is full, this may not have space to work. I'd advise deleting a lot of books and keeping them on your PC until you want to read them. I read a lot, but 1,500 books is the best part of 10 years reading even for me. It's nice to carry your whole library with you, but do you really need access to all those books today? Personally, I worry when any computer memory gets even half full. Oh, and if you can, avoid pdf's and image-intensive books like the plague. They won't display properly, are hard to read or convert and have huge file sizes which will fill your memory up quickly.

Adding a lot of books at once is a bad idea on a Kindle, they're prone to lock up. A hundred at a time works fine. Also, they index all the books, including all words bigger than "the", on mine that takes about an hour per hundred books and it will eat battery life while doing it, so it's best to leave it plugged in until it finishes. If I have one moan about the Kindle, it's indexing. I don't want it, I don't use it, but I can't turn it off - and the index for an average book is about 50Kb. OK, so once indexing is done you can search for a word or phrase across all the loaded books, but as a leisure reader I don't need that. If I was using it for work or study yes, but that's not me - or I think most users. Collections - you can make those on the Kindle itself, no software needed. Remember though that they aren't folders, more like an index of tags. A book can be in multiple collections, or none, and deleting a collection won't delete the books. Series - hell, yes. I read mostly F&SF, the bulk of which is written in series - I did read some complicated royalties/publisher based reason for that, but I can't remember it now. Personally, now that I read exclusively on the Kindle, unless it's a series that I've been following, I only download completed series, then read them one after the other. I've just finished the Wild Cards series that's currently on 21 books, that took a few weeks.

Has anyone given any thought to the girls? We can walk if we hate smoke that much, but the girls have to stay in it all night - and while exercising at that. Can't be healthy.

I haven't stayed there in years, so can't comment on the rooms other than to say that they are the most "monger-oriented" rooms I've ever seen. The padlock though is for your security, with your own padlock then there can be no question of the box being opened in your absence. You don't want losses, they don't want accusations. Win-win.

Vit B does seem to work for me, I start on it a few weeks before every trip now. You do have to take a high dose though, if you only take the RDA then it'll just be used in your system. You need to take enough that it comes out in your sweat - humans can't detect that, but apparently mozzies can.

3-4 week battery life, no eye strain, can read in full sunlight, replicates the paper book much more closely than a LCD or LED screen does. A computer is a computer and I wouldn't be without mine, but an e-ink reader is far better for books.

You'll like it. One piece of advice; get a cover that's at least semi-rigid, the screen is vulnerable and, if damaged, the Kindle is scrap. The way the screen is made, it has a very thin layer of glass within it's layers, a knock will easily break that. Conversely, the body is quite robust, it's not a Frisbee, but it'll handle minor knocks. My Kindle is my second e-reader, I upgraded from a Sony PRS-500 to a Kindle DXG (the 9.7" model) in October 2010, my "I've read this" pile on it is now on 216 books. I can't really imagine going back to DTBs (dead tree books). There are more free and pirated ebooks out there that there are movies so, unless you want to be tied to Amazon, you can get almost everything you look for fairly easily (from the same places you get movies usually) though you'll probably have to convert them to mobi format for your Kindle. There's a free program called Calibre that's excellent at doing that. You can get pretty much all the advice and help you'll ever need here; http://www.mobileread.com/ though if you're simply going to buy from Amazon, you probably won't need anything other than the instructions that come with the Kindle (on it actually, they don't come in paper form). I'm a serious ebook and kindle convert, and get quite evangelical about them.

Hardly surprising really, I'm not a football fan, but it's rare to go in a bar and not see football on TV. I can't EVER remember seeing baseball on - or even rounders that baseball was based on.

I'm seeing those now, thanks. A 12:00 from Gatwick doesn't work for me though, I'd have to travel overnight or stay locally. Pity.

Nope, can't see them. Never mind, the outward leg is really too early for me anyway.

Ahhhh, taxes not included.

Pretty good price. What dates are you using? I can't see prices under £1,000

Unfortunately no, I've got a Lumix camera (TZ10) and a Nokia phone, they aren't the same.

Cheaper???? You get to put it into 18 holes in one day. Try to do THAT in a bar and see if it's cheaper.

UK, centre of the road, not kerbside.

You can order them from Bangkok Books; www.bangkokbooks.com/php/product/product.php?product_id=000938 Edited 'cos linkee no workee.