A FRIDAY FUNNY

FREE BOOK FRIDAY

An extra-special giveaway today—1003 Great Things About Moms by Lisa Birnbach, Anne Hodgman, & Patricia Marx, plus a “Beary Best Mom” teddy bear from the Boyds Bears collection. :happysun

But special rules for a special holiday…

To enter the giveaway for this book, leave a comment to today’s post that includes the code FBF—for “Free Book Friday,” of course—to let me know you’re interested in the drawing…AND tell us one thing you really love about your mom.

U.S. residents only for the prize, please, but everyone is welcome to chat.

Winner will be announced during our Happy Sunday post on…well, you know, Sunday.

Winner is responsible for contacting me with her mailing information—i.e. I will not be contacting you—so be sure to check back in or you might not even know you won! :happysad

(If prize isn’t claimed within 14 days, another name may be drawn or item may be tossed back into the goody bag to be re-used for a future giveaway.)

All right. Enough is enough. It’s time for me to swan dive into the 21st century. (Or whichever century we’re actually in right now. :scratchhead )

Yes, it’s true.  I confess—I do not own an e-reader.  Because new technology (or rather, the time it takes to learn new technology :evilmonkey ) scares me.  Because I don’t want to fork out money for yet another fancy gadget I may or may not like & may or may not use.  Because even though it makes me a bad eco-crazed tree-hugger, I really like books.  Book-books.  On paper.  That I can pick up & turn over & open, with pages that I can flip one by one, then stick a bookmark between.

But as I said, enough is enough.  I really need to get on board already & see what all the hoopla is about.

I don’t really know anything about e-readers, though, & I don’t know the difference between all of the available brands & models.

That’s where you guys come in. :patrick

Because I don’t just want one for books/reading only.  I want one that I can WORK on, if at all possible.  And by “work” I mean download files in both Microsoft Word and PDF for reading, reviewing, & editing.  (That means typing, cut & paste, saving changes, etc.  And then being able to send the files back to my regular computer, if necessary.)

So what kind of e-reader do you have, & what does it DO?

And how do they work, exactly?  (See!  I don’t even know that much. :patrick4 )

I’m kind of thinking I may need to go whole hog & get an iPad with all the bells & practically-a-laptop whistles, but I honestly don’t know.

Please, PLEASE help me figure out what all the different types of e-readers & “tablets” do…what you like or dislike about whichever one you have…what it’s abilities & limitations are…etc., so I can make a really smart, educated decision.

And the sooner, the better, since I’m in a situation right now where I think one would come in really handy. :slamdesk