Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for January 19, 2011

To match your thick head…?

“Unclear on the concept” doesn’t even do him justice …

You need really heavy pixels. Bold face should work.

Sounds like Brewster flunked out of kindle garten.

It’s all digital and I guessing that the ones are heavier than the zeros, so you want a tome with the maximum number of characters with ones in them. In EBCDIC that would be sevens with a hex code of “11110111”. In ASCII it would be a lower case “w”. Ugh, sorry, I just maxed out my geek-o-meter.

Gweedo got the answer. Just to be on the safe side, fill your iPod with heavy metal tunes and add that to the pile.

Pam looks like she’s in shock.

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Brewsky needs a brewsky.

Brewster, once more being true to form.

Another thing we’re losing as print books disappear, and I hadn’t even thought about this one. I’m so ashamed!

You can just press them under the pile of obsolete E-deceives you got laying around.

I think e-readers should have anvils dropped on them.

Really? Wow….

Download the current “Dick Tracy” series into it. That’s about as “thick” as it gets…

What happens if your e-book reader crashes or gets lost or stolen? You have the fun of buying your entire library all over again.

Try this, Brewster: Put the flower on a table, place Pam’s e-reader on top of the flower, and drop bricks onto the e-reader until the flower is sufficiently pressed.

I will never buy an e-reader; I like to read.

“This is going to be great…”

Flounder Animal House

You can use it to read Poe to the flower to depress it.

@runar, as I understand it, once you’ve paid for it you can download the book as many times as you want.

Just hope the store’s server doesn’t crash and lose their backups, or the store goes out of business and can’t offload their records to anybody.

You are correct Phatts California. I bought a “Nook” e-reader from Barnes and Nobles a few weeks before Christmas. You set up an account at Barnes and Nobles and then you register your e-reader. They throw in a few classics free. I’ve already removed one from my reader, but it remains “archived” on their site and can be downloaded again to your registered device whenever you want. I’m sure other sites, including Amazon have a similar set-up. Of course they don’t store multiple copies of the same books for everyone, but just a record of what you “own”.

I’ve also been able to download a number of books free from www.gutenberg.org and transfer them to the reader, and checked out ebooks from my library via the internet.

I’m very happy with it so far.

I read somewhere that Amazon only lets you have a limited numbe of downloads for a given book. Hoever, that could have changed, as I saw it mentioned some months ago. Still, I’m not going for it just yet.

I daresay the risks have not changed, only – well – changed.

For example, you can have a room in your house set up as the family library, and cover the walls with bookshelves filled with books – and then the house burns down.

Or worse, you get divorced and the ex refuses to allow visitation rights.

Or worse still, you stay married and your spouse makes you throw everything away so she can put in a doll room (>sob!<)

I think it was in a Seinfeld episode where Jerry made fun of people keeping lots of books in their homes like trophies to impress others.

Really, how many books have you read more than once? Could you get it from the library if you really wanted to?

I usually just give books away. I find it better just to pass them along to someone else.

brewster is a genius.