ah yes. I''m particularly fond of that episode, so allow me to nitpick:
On Circe's island Lenny, Carl and Moe, all drink the potion ("outa the way, slim") and turn into pigs, who Homer, who does not drink the potion, eats ("that pig looks like lenny!...mmm...that was the next-best thing to eating lenny")
I know, scary, huh?
oh, to have mod points. Thank you, I needed to laugh
Re:I know this is an oft repeated point but
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One of the biggest, though it seems underused, advantages of ebooks is not the ability to sit down and cozy up to an electronic reader-device, but the ability to search the text.
Here is something that I have been playing with a little: I downloaded the top 10k ebooks from project gutenberg, and then set google's desktop search engine to work on them. within I few days I was able to search within the text of a large chunck of "classical western Literature" Not perfected yet, but a glimpse of possibilities, to be sure. Even imperfect I can do in an instant what would have taken any previous generation a lifetime's study (at least!) to do.
I think herein lies one of the most promising functions of electronic texts.
(though, admittedly, a more robust search engine would help. and more books)
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ah yes. I''m particularly fond of that episode, so allow me to nitpick: On Circe's island Lenny, Carl and Moe, all drink the potion ("outa the way, slim") and turn into pigs, who Homer, who does not drink the potion, eats ("that pig looks like lenny!...mmm...that was the next-best thing to eating lenny") I know, scary, huh?
oh, to have mod points. Thank you, I needed to laugh
One of the biggest, though it seems underused, advantages of ebooks is not the ability to sit down and cozy up to an electronic reader-device, but the ability to search the text. Here is something that I have been playing with a little: I downloaded the top 10k ebooks from project gutenberg, and then set google's desktop search engine to work on them. within I few days I was able to search within the text of a large chunck of "classical western Literature" Not perfected yet, but a glimpse of possibilities, to be sure. Even imperfect I can do in an instant what would have taken any previous generation a lifetime's study (at least!) to do. I think herein lies one of the most promising functions of electronic texts. (though, admittedly, a more robust search engine would help. and more books)
So...do you suppose the phone will be available in colors other than white?
Can't think...can't take my eyes off the preposition at the end of that sentence....