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[idiffer]

Today someone sent me 16$ to a russian version of web-money. My birthday was on the 13th and a few ppl do know the number of my account, but it's still weird. I'll try asking around...

[Rob]

Ok, random question I don't know where else to ask :).

So bought a paperwhite for my wife's birthday on Thursday. Do I A) give it to her new, let her set it up, put it on the network, etc, and then has to go add books.

Or
B) set it up, add a few books on her definite to read list, (not too many..as that'd just be overwhelming!), and have it ready to go..but..no longer new and untouched.

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

I vote ready to go, but packed back in the package with the illusion of it being new and untouched lol. Great gift btw.

[Rob]

Niki Hawkes wrote: "I vote ready to go, but packed back in the package with the illusion of it being new and untouched lol. Great gift btw."

Thanks :) This was my inclination as well.

[Anni]

Sounds like the question was already answered, but I would have voted for B as well :)

[Zaara]

Rob wrote: "Niki Hawkes wrote: "I vote ready to go, but packed back in the package with the illusion of it being new and untouched lol. Great gift btw."

Thanks :) This was my inclination as well."

That's gonna be one happy Sheila come Christmas...
💪💪 Rob.

[Virginie]

@Rob: Option B. Definitely option B! :D

[Zaara]

Virginie wrote: "@Rob: Option B. Definitely option B! :D"

Hey. You logged in...how's Paris? I left you a super long post. I left EVERYONE super long posts...😂

[Karishma]

Zaara wrote: "Virginie wrote: "@Rob: Option B. Definitely option B! :D"

Hey. You logged in...how's Paris? I left you a super long post. I left EVERYONE super long posts...😂"

Checks everywhere,where 😋😋😋😋

[Rob]

Rob wrote: "Niki Hawkes wrote: "I vote ready to go, but packed back in the package with the illusion of it being new and untouched lol. Great gift btw."

Thanks :) This was my inclination as well."

So set it up for her and definitely the way to go - just make sure and I failed to do this that if you're on a family plan with Amazon, that you remove all your books from sharing first or they'll show up on the new kindle and impact suggested reading and wishlist stuff. I had to go onto Amazon and unshare books I knew she wouldn't read :) Wasn't hard, but still, a pain and her recommendations are a bit out of whack. (She's never read Brandon Sanderson despite how many times I've suggested she should!)

[Soo]

My only suggestion is to make sure it updated software & restart. When I got the Oasis (couple of weeks ago, it didn't update during the initial setup. The interface was definitely better after the update.

[Rob]

Soo wrote: "My only suggestion is to make sure it updated software & restart. When I got the Oasis (couple of weeks ago, it didn't update during the initial setup. The interface was definitely better after the..."

The update is greyed out when I started the first time. Maybe I should reboot it.

[Anni]

Rob wrote: "Wasn't hard, but still, a pain and her recommendations are a bit out of whack. (She's never read Brandon Sanderson despite how many times I've suggested she should!) "

Hmmm... Maybe you should remove all the books you already added and add only Brandon Sanderson books. That way, she has to start one of these if she immediately want to use her wonderful, new and shinny paperwhite 😂

[Rob]

Sir Anni wrote: "Rob wrote: "Wasn't hard, but still, a pain and her recommendations are a bit out of whack. (She's never read Brandon Sanderson despite how many times I've suggested she should!) "

Hmmm... Maybe yo..."

muhaha!

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

Lol, Rob that’s above and beyond what I would’ve done with that, so nice job. Thanks for the suggestion on the sharing feature - I’m relatively new to kindle and I didn’t realize it did that.

[Elinor]

[Ahdam]

Merry Christmas everyone even though I don't believe in it hope everyone has a great day

To brighten the mood here's Al Murray on nations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CS1c...

For my dear Americans and Canadians please go to 21:00

[Elinor]

I'm a 200% atheist but I love the holiday season anyway, in a non-religious way :)

[Siobhan]

Happy holidays everyone :) and merry Christmas! Have a lovely day!

[Siobhan]

Elinor Master of Gifs wrote: "I'm a 200% atheist but I love the holiday season anyway, in a non-religious way :)"

Same, same! ❤️

I mainly believe "live and let live".

And that Christmas is awesome :D

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Merry Christmas... making my yearly trek to visit friends & their family for the day, be around sporadically...

[Ahdam]

I’ve just finished my “Christmas dinner”

I had chicken marinated in spices
Lasagne (delicious)
Lovely stuffing
Roast veggies
Yorkshire puddings (2 to be exact).
And some mash

Yeah I’m probably going out tommorow and do a few laps

[Anni]

Merry Christmas, everyone! I hope you had and will have a great time :)

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

So full... so tired...

[Jenna, I'd be free if not for Temper & Edgewalker]

Merry Christmas everyone!

[Diana Stormblessed]

Elinor Master of Gifs wrote: "I'm a 200% atheist but I love the holiday season anyway, in a non-religious way :)"

Same, and my family is Jewish to boot. But now that I have kids we still do Santa and a tree and gifts. I didn't care about Christmas until I had kids. Now I want them to have happy, innocent childhoods before they realize the real world sucks 😂 😂

[Narilka]

Merry Christmas!

[Ahdam]

So lately I’ve been scouring Amazon prime to find some low budget films because you never know what you can find and I’ve found some interesting ones which vary in quality

Deception (2010)- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1278330/

One of the funniest films ever because of how bad it is if anyone has seen Birdemic then it’s on that level just watch the trailer please

Leon must die (2018) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6427156/

Very cute film with some issues (could rant about this but I’ll leave it for you guys to watch)

Love and teleportation (2013) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2306633/

Sweet story but very frustrating to watch


If you have amazon prime please watch these because there different and you might get a few laughs (at least from the first 2)

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Ahdam wrote: "So lately I’ve been scouring Amazon prime to find some low budget films because you never know what you can find and I’ve found some interesting ones which vary in quality

Deception (2010)- https..."

One of my favorite low-budget movies/series is Cube: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_%2...

It's suitably mathy, too...

[Ahdam]

I really enjoyed Cube I haven't watched the other ones since they look very different to the first film

Have you seen splice? it's a film by the guy who directed the cube (worth is a character in it) watched it in my science fiction lecture I found it interesting although my mates hated it


I know you don't watch films anymore Iain but you need to watch birdemic


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXXBQ...

Think of the room but much worse

If you can't then there are some good reviews out there to watch

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Ahdam wrote: "I really enjoyed Cube I haven't watched the other ones since they look very different to the first film

Have you seen splice? it's a film by the guy who directed the cube (worth is a character in..."

I haven't seen Birdemic, but I used to listen to the How Did This Get Made? podcast with Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael, & Jason Mantzoukas... they did a live episode about Birdemic, with cast members present, I think:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1aOE...

Don't the birds explode?

[Shaitarn]

Guy Gavriel Kay has a new book coming out in May!! *squeals like an excited fangirl* (which at my age is frankly embarrassing).

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I'm dying... OK, not really... but this post-Christmas cold/flu is kicking my butt... for 2 days, Dayquil / Nyquil & cough drops + water/tea were enough, but now I have that borderline clearable cough that tears your throat up & my voice is cutting out... trying to "cough gently" so clear without hurting... hopefully it clears up soon... I pulled out the Big Guns this morning... Chest Rub (more of a Chest / Neck / Upper Lip dab in my case)... it's helping me cough already :)

[Ahdam]

Talk about bad luck I think the only thing I had to worry about this week was high consumption of food I had this week since not only did I have Christmas dinner but I also went out to a vegetarian restaurant eating a lot (still the food was divine)

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Ahdam wrote: "Talk about bad luck I think the only thing I had to worry about this week was high consumption of food I had this week since not only did I have Christmas dinner but I also went out to a vegetarian..."

Happens most years... my friends have a bunch of kids under 5-6 years old, at the moment, and I only see them around the holidays...

[Karishma]

Timelord Iain (Eeyawn) wrote: "I'm dying... OK, not really... but this post-Christmas cold/flu is kicking my butt... for 2 days, Dayquil / Nyquil & cough drops + water/tea were enough, but now I have that borderline clearable co..."

Feel better soon!

[Anni]

Hey Guys,

Laura and me still need a little help to set up our special Bingo challenge. We finally want to tackle our TBR and read books that sit on out shelfs for far to long. And you can choose which books we're going to read 2019 :)

Please visit our Bingo threads and pick a book from our Shelf:

Laura's Bingo Challenge

My Bingo Challenge

Thank you! :)

[idiffer]

@Ahdam

I watched half of peter pan before it got pulled for copyright infringement. It's awesome.

@Random stuff

Got myself a new 2.1 sound system (cause noone else gives me new year gifts, lol). Very happy with the sound, but the store where I bought it messed up - they told me it had arrived, but when I came to the store, they said it hadn't arrived, so I had to wait a few days more. Probably cause of the holidays (in Russia there's new year instead of christmas, so it's chaos everywhere until the 31st).

We tested the speakers with my friend who knows more about sound quality. Tried to install a pci sound card to see if it was better than my onboard sound. But the PC doesn't see the card. Worked last time I used it. It's an audigy 2 ZS, for those who care.

[idiffer]

PS. New years resolution: start molesting little boys. Animals are so 2018.

[Ahdam]

@idiffer Did you get to the part when the actors clothes were ripped off that was my favourite part...because it was so funny.

I tried to say that in my head in a stereotypical Russian accent and it sounds very creepy so it's definitely you.

[Ahdam]

Happy new year from England everyone no resolution crap but yeah this was definitely an interesting year and definitely an eventful one.

Look forward to see what this year has to offer :) :) :)

[Zaara]

Happy new year, Ahdam and Andy and EVERYBODY!
:D

[Karishma]

Happy New Year!

[RuinEleint]

So my new year discovery is that my To-read list defies the laws of reality.

I had 236 listed in early 2018.

I read 51 from it.

I now have 249, 248 now that I started one.

Reading from it only makes it larger. its like the Incredible Hulk.

[Anni]

Haopy new Year everyone :)

[Virginie]

I think I should do a dirty joke about things getting larger, but my brain is fried.

Happy New Year everyone! :D

[Siobhan]

Happy new year, beautiful people! :D

[Ahdam]

I already said happy new year but hope everyone had a nice New Year’s Eve partying.......eating......drinking or whatever you do when this happens 😂😂😂😂

[Diana Stormblessed]

Happy New Year! Sorry I'm late to the party but I spent all day cleaning lol

[Rob]

Is it just me or have the update progress buttons disappeared from the home/feed page on goodreads.com?