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Birthday achieved
In contract to last years multi-week extravaganza, I had a nice low-key birthday today: vet appointment in the morning, quiet afternoon at home, dinner out with a few friends. The vet trip was Tori's regular check-up, which now happens every couple of months or so. The news was extremely good -- all of her blood tests came back in the normal range for the first time ever, so we can keep tapering down her meds. Best birthday present I could have gotten.
I did get another gift, for myself: an iPad Mini, dark gray with a bright red cover. Finally, a multi-purpose tablet that's exactly the right size for me to use as an eReader! Is this the moment that I being to shift away from paper books? Perhaps, although I don't expect I'll ever ditch them entirely.
Tomorrow will be another quiet day, and then Friday is the first day of FogCon. Yay, FogCon! If you'll be there, let me know and we can find a time to meet up.
I did get another gift, for myself: an iPad Mini, dark gray with a bright red cover. Finally, a multi-purpose tablet that's exactly the right size for me to use as an eReader! Is this the moment that I being to shift away from paper books? Perhaps, although I don't expect I'll ever ditch them entirely.
Tomorrow will be another quiet day, and then Friday is the first day of FogCon. Yay, FogCon! If you'll be there, let me know and we can find a time to meet up.
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One of my favourite things about owning an e-reader (in my case the Kindle, though I do also have a huge iPad 2 that's really too heavy to use as a main e-reader) is downloading fic from AO3. :D (The other is "I can go on vacation with ALL THE BOOKS and my bag doesn't crush my shoulders!!!")
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I've been using my old iPad 2 to download fic for ages. :) But yeah, it's too heavy and (more importantly, to me) too large to cart around as an ereader. The Mini is much closer in size to a trade paperback, and it fits in every purse I own except for one. I've avoided getting a Kindle or other dedicated e-reader because of DRM issues, and although that's still a thing, there are more sources for DRM-free ebooks all the time, and I figure it's time I started exploring them.
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