In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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UPDATED: Friday, September 11, 2026 15:29
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I have to find a few minutes to get a birthday present for a friend of mine. There's a set of DVDs she wants. Just have to find the time to do it.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
That will be a great present for your friend.
I didn't know that kindles couldn't do that, so that makes them useless to me. Using one without my computer glasses on would be a waste. I need the zoom feature for my eyes.
Oh.. You can do it, but it's not something I'd want to be doing on a device as small as a kindle, especially if you had to do it for every page of every book. It would take forever to read and constantly pull you out of the action.
Properly scanned books, or books that are recreated by scratch professionally to be displayed on them look as clear as the real books and the screen is big enough where you should be able to read it fine. And the professional books, I believe my dad said, you can actually make the text larger (and end up with more pages to read in the process).
This was just a scanned book in PDF format, and it's got a ton of black and white and color pictures in it. Kind of like a coffee table book. It may have been a coffee table book. Even at the full size scan it's not the easiest thing to read, especially when text is printed over one of the colored images. When I shrunk it, that made the text even a little more blurry. But it was the only way I could get the book to load up without crashing. And when the pictures are just scans, they're essentially photographs. So zooming in on them is like zooming in on a photograph. It doesn't realign the text to stay on a single page as you zoom in and make the text bigger like the professionally done books.
I'll bet a newer kindle wouldn't struggle with that full-sized book at all, but the one I'm giving away was either one that I bought refurbed about 8 years ago, or was a hand-me-down sometime shortly thereafter, so these things are probably at least 10 years old now.
I'm still keeping it in there though. I think he'll appreciate the pictures and the handwritten notes that are all over the book and are quite readable compared to the tiny text. At least the magazines I found for him are a lot more readable.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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Back and done for today. It has now dried up and the sun is out. And I am eating a burger from the local A&W. 
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Laundry today and then a walk. Once again weather can't make up its mind.
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Done, done and done for today. Having a nice sit down now.
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Sanded down the medicine cabinet, decorative shelf and the bi-fold with the louvers today.
It FINALLY dawned on me where I had that toilet paper roll holder. What a stupid place to put it... I have a very large work bench with 4 large nooks underneath, and one of them is near full with various wood bits small enough to fit under there, but not small enough to throw away. It was in the back underneath some new stuff I had put in there later. I had no idea it was from my buddy's house until now. I thought maybe I took that off an old bathroom remodel job years ago, but no... it has the signature of the same artist who made all the other oak stuff I got from my friend when he remodeled his bathroom and replaced the oak with new barely-wood BS.
So I got that sanded down too. Had to do pretty much that entire thing by hand. But I'm glad I found it because it's going to look so much better than the old one would have with oil-rubbed bronze spraypaint on it.
I just have to figure out if I want to paint it white to match the window/door trim, or if I want to paint it the dark grey I made the vanity and the cabinets. I'm leaning toward white, since it's right under the window and the white baseboard will eventually be down there too. Maybe keep all the dark grey stuff on the vanity wall?
My neighbor saw me out there when he was grilling and he invited me over for a late dinner, so that was cool. Even have 2 more brats and some pasta salad sitting in the fridge right now. 
What a long day of sanding. That's what happens when you've got to do everything by hand. I thought for sure I'd get a coat of primer on everything today, but it's almost 10PM right now, I've got a full belly and I don't feel like it. 
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
That will be a great present for your friend.
I didn't know that kindles couldn't do that, so that makes them useless to me. Using one without my computer glasses on would be a waste. I need the zoom feature for my eyes.
Oh.. You can do it, but it's not something I'd want to be doing on a device as small as a kindle, especially if you had to do it for every page of every book. It would take forever to read and constantly pull you out of the action.
Properly scanned books, or books that are recreated by scratch professionally to be displayed on them look as clear as the real books and the screen is big enough where you should be able to read it fine. And the professional books, I believe my dad said, you can actually make the text larger (and end up with more pages to read in the process).
This was just a scanned book in PDF format, and it's got a ton of black and white and color pictures in it. Kind of like a coffee table book. It may have been a coffee table book. Even at the full size scan it's not the easiest thing to read, especially when text is printed over one of the colored images. When I shrunk it, that made the text even a little more blurry. But it was the only way I could get the book to load up without crashing. And when the pictures are just scans, they're essentially photographs. So zooming in on them is like zooming in on a photograph. It doesn't realign the text to stay on a single page as you zoom in and make the text bigger like the professionally done books.
I'll bet a newer kindle wouldn't struggle with that full-sized book at all, but the one I'm giving away was either one that I bought refurbed about 8 years ago, or was a hand-me-down sometime shortly thereafter, so these things are probably at least 10 years old now.
I'm still keeping it in there though. I think he'll appreciate the pictures and the handwritten notes that are all over the book and are quite readable compared to the tiny text. At least the magazines I found for him are a lot more readable.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
Okay, I get it. I've never used a kindle so I have no idea what the print on them looks like.
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I'm back, for a while, just catching up on all your latest doings.
SIX, dehoarding all those electrons, sanding, mowing .... you sure you got enough going on there, buddy?
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Okay, I get it. I've never used a kindle so I have no idea what the print on them looks like.
I wish I could lend you my Paperwhite Kindle so you could see if you liked it for reading.
I'm not a fan of the other kindles for reading at all, and I'm sure you wouldn't be either. They are better than looking at a tablet or a computer screen, especially if you get the brightness down to the right level, but it's still like looking at a computer screen to me.
But the Paperwhite? That's a different story.
My brother gave me one many years ago and when I was doing that mechatronics course I had all of the notes I'd typed up and some books loaded up into that thing and they were awesome to look at with that type of Kindle, in my opinion.
I don't know what happened to my brother's Paperwhite. I may still find it packed away in one of my boxes in the attic. It wasn't down with the rest of them. I thought it was at first until I realized that the Kindle my dad gave me last year with a lot of his favorite Sci Fi books on it was the Paperwhite in that pile.
Anyway... I'm getting way off topic. If anybody you know is ever getting rid of a Paperwhite Kindle, you should give that a shot. Instead of looking at a computer screen, I would compare it more twoards looking at an Etch A Sketch. But it's bright, and totally readable. It doesn't make my eyes go buggy like trying to read a book off a full color kindle would.
EDIT:
Wow. Way more expensive new than I thought they would have been.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DFYWDGW6
$160!!!
I hear that these things get 2 weeks of battery life off a single charge though. I believe it.
It's really hard to explain to you how cool it is unless you see it, Brenda.
It's even cool how it displays the full colored covers to books. It's all black and white, but they look really neat in the book selection screen and when you first pull up a book to read in full screen.
I actually thought those were special black and white books on my dad's Paperwhite, but when I ripped them onto my computer and put them on another kindle they were the full color pictures. It's just how the Paperwhite handles them.
I'd never tell you to spend $160, but if you ever see one used going cheap in your travels, give it a shot. I don't think you'll regret it.
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Oh... forgot that I also sanded down the hinges for the louvered bi-fold door (because they REALLY needed a bath on my belt sander) and primed and painted that hardware and the over-the toilet cabinet with the oil rubbed bronze stuff. That might or might not be done. I'll have to see how it looks in the morning when I can really pick it up and touch it.
And I've decided on which vanity light out of the 3 I have that I'm putting up. It's going to be the oil-rubbed bronze one with the three stems and 3 very large and nice looking, large glass shades that go over the bulbs.
I looked at the other two and even though I really like the design of one of them, I have to go with the legit oil-rubbed bronze. I know I can make that other one match and it would look decent, but I really think that it would look tacky with the metallic spraypaint on it. Maybe I'm wrong, but the one I'm going to put up is even fancier than the chrome one that I'd have to paint.
My one hang-up on using this fixture before was because it takes bulbs I've never seen before and I was worried about what the price for them might be to replace. They are expensive, but not too bad. I can get a 3-pack right now without a sale for $18, and I probably could do much better than that if I was hunting for them. I already forget what they're called, but if you've ever seen them before they have two thick prongs coming out where you'd normally have the part you screw in. These two prongs go into 2 holes and then you just give like a 1/3rd turn clockwise and they're in, and just as easy to screw back out. Kinda nice when you think about how high you have to reach for them. I think the one time I might have to change those bulbs it's worth the $6 a bulb.
Boy... was there a 2nd hang up though... holy crap. My friend, or whoever painted the bathroom before him was an absolute SLOB with the paint. I'm not talking just getting paint up on the sides when cutting into it, which there was a TON of, but there was a good deal of primer and paint that was brushed and dribbled on the top and the stems too. It gave me something to do while waiting for the spraypaint to dry in between coats, but cleaning that all off without damaging it was a JOB.
If you thought the bathroom looked classy so far Sigs, just wait until I've got this thing hung up over my yet-to-be-painted-but-finally-sanded oak medicine cabinet.
I dunno... I think I'm starting to breech the "this house looks too good to be in this neighborhood" status.
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