NP--On the Waiting List--Cyclops

[Monte Davis]

Joe Allonby sez:

>The kindle is addictive. You get free internet (whispernet) service
but that comes with a button that deducts money straight from your
bank account...

Yep, and I fear it, and am (barely) holding out. For now.

I came late to MP3s and the addictive convenience of Amazon or iTunes
downloads. During 2009 I finally accepted that ~900 albums worth of vinyl
and high-quality homemade tapes, most untouched since I started buying CDs,
were never gonna make a comeback in my habits. So throughout 2010 I
transcribed them to bits. If my time is worth more than $.05/hr it didn't
save money over simply replacing them with yet more CDs or with downloads,
but it was a fun exercise in re-familiarizing myself with earlier tastes,
and rediscovering many gems. And the LPs en bloc were a great bargain to a
vinyl-addicted friend. (cf. earlier exchanges with Robin et al; even if I
still had audiophile Golden Ears, 95% of my listening these days is via
earbuds or in the car.)   

But oh, the temptations along the way. Gosh, that annoying pop just in the
quietest passage of Oistrakh 1962 doing the Beethoven Violin Concerto in D;
why not just insta-buy MP3 instead of filtering it out manually with
Audacity? And as long as I'm online, lookit those two Kid Creole titles I
never got around to acquiring back in the day. And those remastered Ben
Webster sessions... why not just fill in the gaps? Only $8 or $9 a pop, no
weary waiting for UPS... And of course there's Free Torrentz Everywhere
24/7/365...

So music is bad enough; you think I'd get a Kindle and put myself in that
position with BOOKS? You think I'm crazy? ?!!??

-Monte (answers would be superfluous)