avacadabra
2012-05-28T19:37:50.000Z
[books] So I'd never considered there would be apps full of free books until Saturday.
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avacadabra
2012-05-28T19:38:34.000Z
(this doesn't count as spam okay I deleted the plurk that just said yay sunshine, yay housecat life!)
avacadabra
2012-05-28T19:39:29.000Z
When Sarah, who has the same phone as me, whipped out a Shakespeare app like the nerd she is, and it sparked my nerdy curiosity.
avacadabra
2012-05-28T19:39:47.000Z
P.S. We are nerds.
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avacadabra
2012-05-28T19:41:06.000Z
And then yesterday happened, and I was locked out of the building all night and day and night again (eurgh my timing sucks) and so I was
avacadabra
2012-05-28T19:42:10.000Z
bored enough to rearrange my folders and go poking around the app store for new games. I also decided to see if I could find some Chinese
avacadabra
2012-05-28T19:43:05.000Z
poetry that I've been looking for (yes and no, because my Mandarin is shit and I don't even Cantonese, and there aren't bilingual apps yet
avacadabra
2012-05-28T19:43:58.000Z
for that in case you care) THE POINT HERE -sorry, rambling and cheerful this morning guys- is that if you guys have smartphones like me
avacadabra
2012-05-28T19:44:13.000Z
THERE ARE FREE BOOKS. Hurrah!
avacadabra
2012-05-28T19:45:35.000Z
I found two really awesome free apps full of mostly classics and traditional or ancient texts, but also some contemporary politics etc.
avacadabra
2012-05-28T19:46:23.000Z
And there's a music festival app too. Many of you will remember that I found an app once that locates public toilets during a
avacadabra
2012-05-28T19:47:19.000Z
potty emergency, too. Basically people can say all the shit they want to about my phone, I just never run out of reasons to love it.
avacadabra
2012-05-28T19:48:12.000Z
Anyway, you guys should go get some free books. AND IF YOU DON'T HAVE A SMARTPHONE...the bookstore I worked for has a shitton of free ones
avacadabra
2012-05-28T19:48:57.000Z
you can download from their website. Go to ubookstore.com and check it out. /salute
avacadabra
2012-05-28T19:50:18.000Z
This news is probably way more exciting to someone who frequently has no place to keep books and ends up buying the same ones repeatedly.
avacadabra
2012-05-28T19:51:20.000Z
Anyway, thanks hervictory for the tip. I so haven't been taking proper advantage of my phone. I usually just fuck around with the apps that
avacadabra
2012-05-28T19:51:43.000Z
turn it into various musical instruments when I'm bored. Hahaha.
seek
2012-05-28T20:02:13.000Z
good thing I saw the housecat plurk
seek
2012-05-28T20:03:05.000Z
might need to look into those apps though 8|a
avacadabra
2012-05-28T20:04:40.000Z
Nah dude I reiterated it here anyway so no one missed it. It's just become part of my book plurk. /thumbs up
avacadabra
2012-05-28T20:05:28.000Z
And I know right? There's a lot of awesome random junk you can do with a smartphone. It never stops making me happy.
seek
2012-05-28T20:05:58.000Z
Oh, okay! good. smartphones are pretty much the best though. :'>
avacadabra
2012-05-28T20:11:49.000Z
B makes so much fun of me for mine, but it's just cause she's like. Hmm. Anti-tech snobby, which I'm sure there's a word.
avacadabra
2012-05-28T20:12:47.000Z
I mean I love books on paper too don't get me wrong. I don't have an Amazon account for a myriad of reasons. But things where no one is
avacadabra
2012-05-28T20:13:21.000Z
losing out, like classics and public domain stuff? I'm definitely okay with getting for free.
avacadabra
2012-05-28T20:14:42.000Z
So yeah this won't exactly stop those 'hey who wants my books?' plurks. But at least 4 of the books I recently gave away I can still read
avacadabra
2012-05-28T20:14:56.000Z
now if I want to. /thumbs up
seek
2012-05-28T20:16:17.000Z
That's great!
MOVED
2012-05-28T21:05:49.000Z
I think I'm supposed to be offended again. /head scratch
avacadabra
2012-05-28T22:00:56.000Z
No dude I just like to push your nonexistent buttons. /grin
avacadabra
2012-05-28T22:01:17.000Z
Anyway your nerdiness is frequently useful!
MOVED
2012-05-28T22:01:41.000Z
don't you feel like a better person for knowing that the shakespeare app exists?
avacadabra
2012-05-28T22:01:44.000Z
Where mine just confuses and annoys people. /wink
avacadabra
2012-05-28T22:02:05.000Z
Nah but I'm jazzed about the other ones!
Infychu
2012-05-29T01:47:41.000Z
Oh man, cool! :-o
Infychu
2012-05-29T01:47:57.000Z
I only just got a smartphone, finally, a few months ago, I need to learn all about cool shit like this
avacadabra
2012-05-29T06:26:43.000Z
hell yeah you do
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