Generation 10 is HERE

I'm so HAPPY! Generation 10 is HERE! In my House! In my hands!  I bought a new Kindle. My current Kindle is 5 years old and twice in the past week, while reading, the page FROZE, it would not move! I did a restart and it worked fine. The 2nd time I said to Bob, I am going to order a new one, because use don't want to be around me if my Kindle doesn't work!  He agreed quickly. It came over night! YAY!   I love Amazon! I love Kindles!

I have always chosen Reading over any other entertainment, starting when I could hardly hold a book!

Do you have a device of any kind you can't live without? Or something NOT a device you must have?

For the tales of my love affair with  Kindles, there are Prior Posts HERE  This one is Sandra's 4th Kindle, so says my account on Amazon! 

Reaching for Reacher...

2 years with my Kindle Paperwhite e-reader, and I have read only two books that were NOT in my Kindle.

One of my favorite authors is Lee Child, having read all 17 of the Jack Reacher series last Sept. I received notice the new Reacher book number 18, Personal, was out.  The library had no Kindle copy, but they did have one copy of Large Print, which is all I can read these days. I put my name on the hold list and was # 75.. This past week I received a call my book was ready for pickup.

Things I learned while reading a printed book
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It takes 74 people five months to read one book... (Write that down, so you don't forget it...)

A book that is  9 x 7 in size and 2 inches thick requires 2 hands to hold it. (Kindle is 1/4 inch thick and almost weightless and can be held in one hand).

That same book is awkward to hold while reading through progressive tri-focals. (Kindle fits right under my double chins, easy to see)

The book caused my arthritis to  HURT in fingers, wrists, shoulder and elbows, ( I can read for 4 hours at one time with the Kindle, the book required frequent rest breaks),

CONCLUSION? when number 19 comes out, I will have to buy the book.

Do you have a favorite author that you have read every book they wrote? I have many.

PS... I had to DRIVE to the library, 4 miles of TRAFFIC with many traffic signals plus the GAS it cost me.

Kindle Alert -You do not have to own one to read one...

If you follow me, you first met my Kindle in Gadgets -Yada Yada Yada 

Above is my first one, it was FREE and I LOVED IT... But then I bought the Kindle Paperwhite and LOVE LOVE LOVE IT..even more

the  Kindle above now resides with my DIL in TN..

ALERT! if you don't like to read, skip the rest of this post and come back tomorrow.

.. I downloaded Kindle app on my laptop and PC and can read on either one.

See below how it looks on my laptop. Backup for if the Kindle fails... SHUDDER!

Now for THE PURPOSE OF THE POST.

YOU  do NOT have to own a Kindle to read one. You can download the Kindle app on Phone, notebooks, Laptops and PC..... and read on any of them, all WITHOUT owning a Kindle...

I have include a screen shot of HOW TO READ A KINDLE without owning one, just click on the link.

Cable Lady Blah blah blah

Our beloved remote that controls our HD LCD WIDESCREEN TV (horrors) quit, and the cable lady came and brought the new one.

Our appointment was 8 AM she came at 9:15 am but She set it up in five minutes, then said "I have one with big numbers, let me go get it".
I said "this one if fine, I already know how to use it, and don't want to learn a new one. (this was said to thin air because she had walked out the door while I was talking)

She pops back in the door with it, "See?" she says, "it has big numbers and it glows in the dark", I said "we don't need it, I like the one we have."

 she says "it is the same just bigger numbers."

 Now I am holding it in my hand and it is NOT the same, the buttons have moved, the FF is at the top, and red, yellow, green buttons are moved around on the game board remote.

 She says," it's all still there"....... (by now I am thinking  she needs her hearing checked)

I say, " I don't like it!  I like this one because I can use it with my eyes closed."

She says "just keep both of them"....

 so what is up with that? does she get paid by the remote drop off instead of hourly?  so now we have two more remote dust catchers.

THE GOOD NEWS IS.... SHE FELL IN LOVE WITH MY STATUE THAT SITS ON THE COUNTER.(she actually hugged it) and now I know who to call when I want to get rid of it. Anyone want to guess WHY I bought it 20 years ago?

Ain't Technology Grand?

Sept 14 2012 issue

My husband was a drag racer back in The Day (no not top fuel, just street rods)... that means for us The Fifties  He loves all thing racing and Drag Racing is his Thing. He is a member of the NHRA and receives their magazine twice a month, which causes much litter in the living room when mixed with all his other magazines, but that is another story.

Alan Reinhart 

If you love your Smart Phone read this.
If you hate your Smart Phone, read this.
If you have no cell phone, if you want no cell phone, if you wish you had a Smart Phone, read this.

If you love to LAUGH this is a MUST Read.


 excerpt from Ain't Technology Grand? by author Alan Reinhart National Dragster, the Sept. 14th, 2012 issue
Time for a smartphone.

It actually started with this: "Oh my god, you have a phone-a-saurus!"

Some of the arguments for a smartphone: "But what about checking email?" Won't it still be there when I get home? "You can update your Facebook." I don't have Facebook. "You can watch movies and videos." I have a 65-inch plasma, why would I watch a 3-inch screen? "You don't need to have boarding passes." I'm a big, strong guy; I can carry a boarding pass.  CLICK HERE to read more

If you want to laugh until you cry,  take five minutes to read this article

Gadgets Yada Yada Yada

Kindle Gadget

I LOVE LOVE LOVE MY KINDLE and thanks to Rose at Pics and Pieces who emailed me links for free books, I am madly browsing and downloading free books. I bought a cover for it, thanks to Mildred at Maple Lane who emailed me a link for that. (the PROBLEM IS, every day the newsletter comes and I find a book I just HAVE to read, and this thing only holds 1400 books.. I now have 7 of my own and 1 library)

Shocker was when I saw the bar on the bottom of the page saying 75 % read, I looked to see how many pages were left and it said 3324 of 4431... YIKES I am reading a book that has 4431 pages?   just think if this was printed ,I would not be able to hold it.

Flash drives, better known as portable life savers. Just plug it in and add your word docs, spread sheets, photos and take it where you want it, plug and play.

We keep all our important papers in a silver box that we are to grab if we have to flee the house because of fire, famine, flood or storms. it is heavy.

I took photos of every single thing in the house, just snap snap snap and put them in a folder named HOUSE PICS (original don't you think?).
I keep the flash drive with all the pics and papers in the silver box and that way we will have  a record of everything.
The best place to keep this would be a safety deposit box. If your house was demolished would you remember everything that was in it?
NO CHARGE FOR THIS INFO, It is FREE from ME to YOU.

Do you use flash drives or gadgets? what kind and for what? I might find one I don't have yet.

Gadgets Galore - Conspiracy Theory?

Above are my a few of my  most beloved Gadgets...

 Five In One Card reader that I had to buy because HP only put 2 sizes slots for memory cards               (Conspiracy? do they own the card reader company?)

 and of course my camera has the size that is not in the laptop. .... this handy dandy contraption will read all five sizes , but I am thinking they have invented a 6 and 7th size since I bought the five card reader. Plug it in a USB port and I can download from 5 different sizes of memory cards.

USB Multi-Port Gadget  ... this allows me to plug 4 USB cords into one port on the computer. Laptop has two ports, Desktop PC has 2 on the front and 4 on the back, the ones on the back are FULL and since I prefer a cordless mouse and keyboard, one of the front ports is busy...

 (conspiracy theory here is, they leave SPACES on the back to ADD more ports, because they KNOW 4 is not enough and we have to BUY and install) so if they took the time to put the space there why not the port?

TO BE CONTINUED due to much yada yada yada blah blah blah of MadSnapper A.K.A as MadTyper

Gadgets Galore Part 2

Diane petting her kayak?

My new Kindle arrived Via Kayak... or so I said yesterday, Actually it came in a truck carrying two kayaks.

My friend, Diane  emailed that she had won a Kindle and since she has a Kindle and a KindleFire she wanted to give me the Kindle, IF I wanted it.... She said she and Patricia were going kayaking at Robinson Preserve Saturday AM and she would drop the Kindle off at my house on the way home. About 1 pm.

Hankies in the wind

What? I have to wait all day to get the Kindle? How about if I meet you there and document The Launch?

Two Tough Cookies

 She made me swear I would NOT take any photos of thighs, legs, stomach, and promise to post only flattering pics. SOOOO. I said that means everything is off limits but ankles and feet?

Sorry Guys, you know MadSnapper cannot snap one snapshot! or even POST just one or two.

Patricia Paddles Prettily 

I snapped all these photos and went home to FIGHT with the KINDLE... it almost WON but after a few choice words thoughts about people who invent gadgets, I conquered it and downloaded my first library book.

  They left me standing on the shore, camera in hand, and I had NOTHING TO DO....Nada, Nothing!

 so can you guess what I did??? huh? can you?? huh? huh?

to be continued     I LOVE MY KINDLE.....already borrowed two books from the library from my chair. no gas used, no traffic, and I ordered then in my night gown, so no dressing either.....

Gadgets Galore...

YES, this photo was taken by MadSnapper 

I have two pills that I can't take until FOUR hours after I take the Thyroid pill.

My ancient wind up egg timer, only DINGS! once and I never hear it OR I hear it and don't jump up causing me to miss my pills.

I came home with the cute round one (5.97) he said just put in 4 hours, I said it only takes an hour, he  said why didn't you get one that you can set for four hours, when you take your pill just push the preset 4 hours.

 why did you get a one hour?  my answer was this one was 6 and the other 10. He said you will have the same problem with the one hour that you had with the one hour egg timer that was only one hour.

(did I mention I had destroyed the package and receipt?)

I drive the 2.9 miles to WM and buy the 10.00 one and lo and behold, yet another Gadget that is Smarter than a 68 year old........

 The round one is simple, just tap the minutes you want by tapping the button that says minutes.

Guess how you set 4 hours on the big kahuna timer? it types and fills in from the left side, this older than a 5th grader typed 35960. Gotcha! stupid timer!

I set it and in 4 hours it went to dinging with a loud noise worse than fingernails on a blackboard. If you are younger than 40 you probably don't know what a blackboard is.

Have you figured it out yet? can you guess the things I was thinking while trying to figure out what to type?

3 hr 59 min 60 seconds equals 4 hours.... STOP LAUGHING!  it SAID to type in hours, minutes, seconds and I DID.

While typing this post it dawned on me I could have typed 40000, so I ran to the kitchen and did that and it works..I SAID STOP LAUGHING!

 any way it is set and has total recall, so I swallow the pill, reach up to the fridge magnet, touch recall and start and at the end of 4 hours all you know what breaks lose and will DING for 1 minute 79 seconds.... say what?  why the extra 79 seconds?

Now if only I remember to punch the recall button when I swallow the pill, I am set, with not one but two new timers.

I got a FREE Kindle, and it came Via Kayak..... to be continued and you don't EVEN want to know the fun I had with the instructions on the Kindle.