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booksforabuck: Hi Jonathan,My problem is, I ran over the USB cord so many times it doesn't fit right. Not a design flaw, pilot error.rob
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rob: Good point, Amelia. The hours people spend reading are the greatest cost involved. Given that we sometimes get fooled and buy books we don't enjoy, it's nice to have a low cover price, too--if not for the successes, at least for the rejects.Rob
amelia: You may buy books because they are cheep (so you can fill a bookcase) or because you may or may not want it. But I hope people do not read books because they are cheap. time is to valuable
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Rob: Thanks, Amelia. Still, lots of people seem to think that stupid people doing stupid (embarassing) things is the ultimate in humor.Rob
amelia: I am with you. I do not find people doing stupid things funny. I find that people think I am funniest when I say the truth. Odd.
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Rob: Hi Amelia,Yep, you're right. Paper is okay although I think it's faster to look up words on the computer.--Rob
amelia: I thought Reboubt was some type of fort. So I was close. I looked it up in the dictionnary. Yes paper
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Rob: Thanks, Clare. And what a fun site you have.--Rob
Clare: Wonderful work you are doing!! Keep it up! You have my support!
amelia: mom got here safe and sound. She said that I have a lot of food in the frig and was looking forward to stilton cheese. On the way home I will try to get some fig pine nut bread to go with it.
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Rob: Hi Amelia,Sorry to hear about Da Vinci. It's possible your reading habits are a bit more sophisticated than the average. Since I get paid for sitting in basements, it's not all bad.rob
amelia: P.S. I got DaVinci code on tape. Listened to it but got annoyed. felt manipulated so stoped also felt like I knew the end already. Finally I think goddess worshipers can be just as bad as any other religion.
amelia: good luck on your classes. What a bad Idea sit in a basement in Hawaii while Karen plays outside.
amelia: Looks like you have a Texas walaby on the cover of your latest book,
Rob: From the spam I get, Lea is probably the only one not e-mailing me. My address is in my tag.--Rob
Lea: Hello Rob, I can't get any of your e-mail addresses to work... I would like to send you new submissions from Spotlight authors. Please let me know where we can reach you with review opportunities. Thanks!
Rob: Hi Amelia,Yes, that thought had crossed my mind as well. The slowest reader controls the remote. --Rob
amelia: group reading. No everyone reads at a different pace. who will be the one that changes the page?
Rob: Hi Amelia,The spammers must have figured out a way to overcome the safeguards. Hope this doens't mean I have to take it down again.Rob
amelia: what is with these odd tags? If we have a nuculr war and any one survives I dont mind if they take all the paper books I leave.
julai: hi,good day!I'm blog hopping to gani more friends since I'm just a newbie in the world of blogging. I like this site, I love to read novels.
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amelia: nothing is indistructable and when it wears out you want it to be recycleable. Also I am hearing about electronics being a trash problem.
Rob: Hi Amelia,But why recycleable? Why not just keep using it?Rob
amelia: priced so it will not be stolen, easily adapeted for large print, very light weight, very simple to use, hard to break, recycleable,

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Monday, January 12th 2009

8:27 PM

Format problems

I got a note from a reviews editor complaining about some weird characters in one of our books and did a little digging around. Sure enough, the program I've been using to create Palm DOC/eReader formatted versions of my books has problems with smart quotes. I went over to eReader.com and bought the latest eReader Studio program and will be spending the next few days re-formating and generally trying to make the books look the way they were already supposed to. It seems that you can never really get ahead. Oh, well.

I had a big review day posting reviews for FORWARD, SHAMBLE by Joshua Calkins-Treworgy (here: www.booksforabuck.com/sfpages/sf_09/forward_shamble.html), CRUEL INTENT by J. A. Jance (www.booksforabuck.com/mystery/mys_09/cruel_intent.html), and THE SHADOW OF SAGANAMI by David Weber (www.booksforabuck.com/sfpages/sf_09/shadow_of_saganami.html). All had their moments. I really like Jance's writing but the Ali Reynolds stories aren't my favorites. I don't like Weber's style much (he desperately needs an editor to trim a couple of hundred pages of bloat) but he writes space battles better than anyone. And the Calkins-Treworgy story was simply a lot of fun.

Less fun was the limited progress I made in my rewriting. I struggled a few pages forward--this was supposed to be a big day what with my bridge partner cancelling on me. 

Karen is home and I took her to her favorite place (the Beckley BrewHouse) for the Pizza Margarita she loves. I'm glad she's home.

I re-did the eReader/Palm version of CARPATHIAN SHADOWS #2 so I'm going to make Carpathian 2 the www.BooksForABuck.com book of the day. When tourists take a paranormal tour of a Transylvanian castle, they discover more than they bargained for. Only $3.99. Learn more, read the free excerpt or buy the entire book here: www.booksforabuck.com/sfpages/sf_08/carpathian_shadows2.html ). (Available in HTML, Adobe Acrobat PDF, Mobipocket, ePub, Sony Reader and eReader formats). Here's the cover (cover design by Karen Leabo)

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