1 post tagged “qwerty”
Is the above a good metaphor? Does the Kindle provide kindling for your brain, setting it afire? Doesn't really matter...
Yes, I did it. I bought a Kindle. They came out with a new version, and I bought it. It hasn't arrived yet, but it will, and then I will...read! Ok, sounds a bit boring, and it is. I am hoping it will increase the volume of my reading, which I think it will. I'll read more at lunch, at home, on the couch, listen to it read to me on the way to work. I just read today that Amazon is limiting the Text-to-Speech feature. That sucks. That wasn't my main reason for buying it, but it could have been, and maybe still will be, a great feature that I will use very often. I'm pretty sure it will work for any free stuff I send to my Kindle, so I may have to do that. I could get a book scanner and, after it scans my book in, then transfer the Word document over to the Kindle. That would be ideal, but book scanners are expensive and time consuming, even with the best system.
Regardless, I'm still anxiously awaiting my Kindle.
Another thing I'm trying to do is to learn to type using the Dvorak keyboard layout. It is very difficult to learn when you regularly type use the QWERTY layout, and you learned using that layout. Funny, I saw a comment by someone that referred to it as the "Querty" layout, twice! He obviously didn't realize why it was called that!
Yet another thing: I want to try my hand at writing again, like I did when I was in middle school and a little bit in high school. I was good at writing stories in middle school, for a middle schooler, but didn't want to fail at writing seriously, so never really tried. Who knows if I get around to it. If I do, I'll let you know and even provide some of my writing here, for sampling.
