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Comment Re:New Books Maybe Old Books Never (Score 1) 669

I turned 21 about 8 months ago and I have at a guess around four or five thousand books. It's what happens when you read 2-4 books a week for about 10 years and keep everything you read. My favorites are on a wrap-around ceiling bookshelf around my room, with an entire wall sized bookshelf holding the rest, everything else gets boxed up and stored away.

I do read a lot of ebooks too, but it's quite hard to take an ereader or a phone and keep it charged and working when you go camping or kayaking or hiking or sailing. A physical paper book you shove in your bag is a much easier way to bring a story with you.

I reject your assumption that paper books will die off, and I cite vinyl records as my evidence.

Comment Re:Why the anti-litigation jab? (Score 0) 111

...the State of California.

I think you mean the People's Republic of California. And as a Georgian, I have no issues with not being allowed in California, I really don't have any desire to visit or live there. Reciprocally, I don't want any Californians in Georgia, so you need to add a few laws restricting them from ever leaving the state.

Comment Re:Help power cars? (Score 1) 84

What about embedding it in the road itself? Roads flex from cars driving over them, if this stuff could be made cheaply, laying down sheets of it under the road surface might generate a lot of power. If a person walking generates a single watt, thousands of cars weighing thousands of pounds theoretically would produce an exponential increase on that. Power transport would be an issue over this type of design, but it could be done every few miles so it generates just enough power to power the street lights, traffic lights, and stuff of that nature and maybe a small surrounding area too if the power generation is high enough. On certain roads it would also be more reliable than solar/wind power as there is always a base-number of cars driving on the road at any one time.

Comment Re:Pull A Jordan? Seriously? (Score 1) 279

The new Deeds of Paks series is really good so far. Elizabeth Moons writing has improved 10 fold since she last visited the series. And it went from a 3 book series to 5 books I think at this point. The woman is a machine... story gets into her head and she cannot stop writing. Thanks, I had read the original 3 but had no idea she had written more. Off to the bookstore I go(and here I'm trying to save money this month).

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