Subj : Taxes
To : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Tue Aug 26 2025 01:20 pm
Hi Dave,
DD> I can recommend "Typhoon" byJoseph Conrad for your reading pleasure.
DD>
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3537012-typhoon
RH> Have to check it out, thanks.
DD> It was a good read for me. Never got tedious or made me want to jump
DD> ahead.
RH> I'll see if I can get it for my Nook; we're running short of book shelf
RH> space.
DD> It has ben "Epubbed"
https://archive.org/details/typhoon_202103
Thanks, I need to get some new reading material on the Nook and Ken
Follette's new book isn't out yet.
DD> Do you subscribe to Book Bub's e-mail? They offer free and
DD> reducd-price e-books in whatever genres you care to follow. They show
DD> me e-pubbed cook books ... which I have grabbed one or two of to
DD> access with my Calibre
DD> desktop e-reader so I can cut & paste like I do from web sites.
I do get the listing but have never gotten anything thru them (yet). I'd
probably not get cook books as I prefer hard copy for them. Just
unsubscribed from a web site of fig recipies when they tried (didn't
succeed because we don't do Windows) sending some malware instead of a
recipe.
DD>
https://www.bookbub.com/
About the time I got my Nook, both you and a local friend reccommended
this site. I've browsed, but just not pulled the trigger yet, on any
books.
DD> Schools are finding that they need ban phones in the classrooms if
DD> they want their pupils to learn.
RH> True, but 5 years ago when everything was shut down tight and parents
RH> wanted to have their children continue their learning, teaching thru
RH> Zoom was really big. Some kids had no computers at home but a parent
RH> might have a smart phone that the kid could use. Teachers quickly found
RH> out that phone screens were not as good as PC screens so around here, a
RH> lot of appeals were put out for used but still useable computers. We
RH> contributed the EEPCs (eeps's) and some others we had, after Steve
RH> cleaned them up, put on some basic work programs, etc. Helped us (a bit
RH> more room, soon to be replaced by radio equipment) and helped several
RH> kids learn better.
DD> My Asus all use Linux for the OS. If I'm doing Zoom I'd rather use my
DD> Lenovo Think/Idea Pad w/the built-in camera and microphone.
I've used my tablet for Zoom. At the time, schools were scrounging
anything they could get so kids wouldn't have to rely on phones for
connecting with their classes.
DD> It's also handy if I am hospitalised. Since I network my Meal Monster
DD> with the desktop tower my recipe bases are pretty much up to date.
I'm not saving nearly as much as I was when I first got on the echo. Noe
I look for something specific.
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Ruth
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