Musings of a retired nurse, mother of one and grandmother of 3. Doing some part time work editing papers and writing stories. I Worked 34 years mostly in L&D and newborn special care, taught childbirth education classes, and worked with the VNA and did home fetal monitoring for high risk patients. I feel privileged to have shared such wonderful and private moments with so many families. I do miss the work that I did, but not the stress I experienced so often.
Famous Seamus
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Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Reading Accessories
I've been on a reading binge. Going through books fairly rapidly, but they were all rather long, mostly Kindle books. I love my Kindle, though I hear a lot of people say they love the books,
the feel of the paper etc. But in my opinion books aren't made right. I find that with most of them
holding them is awkward. Hard covers are often heavy and don't stay open, and paperbacks won't
stay open and it's too easy to lose the place. If the central margins were wider it would work
better, but then it would take more pages to print the whole book. So that is one delemma, using
the Kindle eliminates that problem, plus one carry a whole library around in a purse or a large
pocket. And as I read each book on my Kindle I just click on "remove from device" and it cleared
and stored in my Kindle account at Amazon. They have several different styles. I know that there
are a few other reading devices on the markets - my grandchildren all have Kobos and they love them. There was a third type, but I think it's been discontinued. I also like the Kindle Cloud reader at Amazon. I am able to use it on my laptop. Once set up and opened it too becomes a hands-free reader, but a little more awkward than the Kindle, but better in some other ways. I can enlarge the type and read any Kindle book on it. BTW I'm not getting paid by Amazon for this info I'm sharing. One last thing is that all the Kindles and the app for the computer are all synced so you can start with the computer and continue with the Kindle device and the divice will know where you left off on the last device. The computer Cloud Reader however offers something that I don't think I can do with the regular Kindle (though I'm not sure). If I find a special passage or reference that I want to save or share with someone all I have to do is highlight and do a copy and paste to an email and then send it or store it in a file I have for interesting quotes. I think that is a great tool for students who often
want to use some quotes in the papers they write.
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