Hello, Kay;

21 Apr 05 01:36, Kay Shapero wrote to Robert Bull:

 KS> Apparently reading is one of the less energy intensive uses, even
 KS> though it means having the screen turned on all the time.  I can get
 KS> something like four hours before I have to recharge, and even a

That's numerous recharges to wade through blockbuster 19th century novels, 
but at least it makes use of time waiting in line  :-/  One could wish Palm 
had made extended-liffe battery packs, or something...

 KS> considering buying a device for generating one-up clock parts when he
 KS> can afford it.  Lots of times people bring in clocks that have unusual
 KS> parts.

My uncle used to do similar things over here, including the odd clocks in 
vintage cars, though mostly now the owners just want the original face, 
they're perfectly happy to have modern electric works behind it.

 KS> A plaintive wail to the folks in one of the palmtop newsgroups caught
 KS> the attention of a nice machinist in Connecticut named Carmine
 KS> Castiglia who had the same problem but better connections than the
 KS> rest of us.  He now sells T3 screws (and styli and things) over the
 KS> net at http://www.infosystemspro.com/pdaparts.htm.  I ordered a batch,

Worth joining the newsgroup, then  :-)

 KS> and my T3 now has all its screws again.  (We won't say anything about
 KS> the user. :) )

It's not so much whether you have them all, as are they loose?  :-))

 KS> CBIP: Several.  I'm still wandering through _War and Peace_ at odd
 KS> moments.  A bit over halfway through.  Also reading _Love and

I read Anna Karenina, but never quite got up to War and Peace, partly 
because of its sheer size.  Did you ever read that Bob Shaw story where a 
young man feels himself such a failure that he gets himself brainwashed, 
with a new identity, to start all over again?  He goes into the 
brainwashing session clutching a book to focus on, as he admires the author 
and wants to adopt his name.  But instead of coming out calling himself Leo 
Tolstoy, he's such a twit that his new name is Warren Peace...

 KS> Freindship_ (sic) by Jane Austin - a collection of the title story,
 KS> and a lot of fragments of early works.  She seems to have started out
 KS> by satirizing the popular works of the day; you can see where _Lady
 KS> Susan_ came from.  I'll probably download _Sense and Sensibility_
 KS> next, that being one of my favorites.  I've also been going on a mild

The first one I read was Northanger Abbey, where the satire was fairly 
obvious even to my then-young mind.  I've read a few of the others, and 
seen adaptations on TV.  My mother, though, isn't all that keen on Austen.  
She'd rather have George Eliot.

 KS> Lord Dunsany binge, and am currently reading _Welleran_.  All hail
 KS> Project Gutenberg!

Never read Dunsany.  Suppose I ought to keep a look out for him.

     Regards,

              Robert.

CBIP:  THE BLIND MAN OF SEVILLE  by  Robert Wilson
     Hmmm...  so far not gripping me anything like as much as A SMALL DEATH 
     IN LISBON, and with little time may have to abandon it...

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