Praise then darkness, and creation unfinished

another library card

Wed, 25 Aug 2021 17:41:01 GMT

I just created a New York Public Library e-card, mostly to see if I could, because of a discussion on Discord of getting an NYPL card if you don't live in the city. This makes five library cards: Boston and Minuteman, plus King County and Seattle from when I lived in Washington. I'm using King County the most, because they have a very good ebook collection.

The NYPL e-card is available to anyone who lives in the United States and checks a box for "visiting New York City." I have a library card number, a username (of my choosing) and password, and a printout with all this information. They promised a confirming email, and I very much doubt that they're going to check that I live at this address in Belmont, rather than in New Haven, Seattle, or Toronto.

NYPL uses an ebook format/reader I hadn't heard of, and will need to download to my phone.

ETA: The virtual card expires in 14 days if I don't go to a branch in person to validate it. Which I suppose fits in with me saying I was "visiting NYC." If I remember correctly from yesterday, the visitor card is only three months anyhow.

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ebook reader for iPod using iOS 5?

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:13:34 GMT

I have been using Stanza to read ebooks, and carelessly said "yes" when iTunes suggested an upgrade to iOS 5. It turns out that kills Stanza; any thoughts on other good iPod ereaders?

I googled a little yesterday, and since it seems as though they all cost at least a few dollars, I'd rather not just download randomly, and advice from people I know seems somehow more useful than from random strangers on a comment thread somewhere.

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State of the system

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:29:44 GMT

Good: the Palm will still charge on its cradle; this buys me time, at least.

Not as good: It's not entirely clear how much I need to do to run Palm Desktop 4.1.4 on Windows 7; what I'm finding online says "compatibility mode," and then Windows 7 offers to test for compatibility. And now I'm worrying about losing data, because the only place I'm sure I have it current is on the handheld. (My first attempts yesterday to get files from the backup I wrote using the Windows XP backup utility achieved nothing.) In the meantime, I have copies the "backup" folder in the Palm folder to "my documents" so I have it in two places. I suspect I shall be spending some time copying a few people's contact information by hand before I chance sync'ing. And I don't want to spend the next few days doing nothing but work, fret about systems stuff, and sleep.

Eudora seems to be working; it's configured to both download mail and leave it on the server, and since Panix is now giving us 500 MB of storage, I'm going to do that for a bit, since this is beta software. Really beta, not Google "we'll call it that for a year and then declare it out of beta without any recent changes."

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