Some Cuckoo took a Kindle to Adoration

[Luger]

Yes. We do all need to pray for more. One of my most intense prayers is that I be graced with more tolerance.

But that doesn’t mean that I should not be bothered by bothersome things, or that I am a bad person because I am bothered by bothersome things.

No, it means you lack the grace/ability to concentrate at a level that is deep enough so such things don’t distract you.

See… this is the kind of thing that aggravates me and gets my hankles up: Who said that I don’t pray for peace? Who said that I haven’t prayed for peace? Is that a fair assessment for you to make of me? Is that nice? But yes, I have prayed for peace. And while I take my actions outside of Mass (there is no point in making every one else uncomfortable), there are some actions that I will take during Mass: the finger to the lips to quiet someone who is talking, holding the hand of the person who is snapping papers, holding the hand of the child who is bouncing around on the pews, talking to people before they start their actions which are disturbing during the time between Masses.

See above.

And for many of the actions, I won’t say anything to any one at all. But then, I get grief from others to whom I feel comfortable enough to vent to that I shouldn’t have done whatever I did… even when they don’t know that I did anything.

So pray for the grace that you not need to vent…

Yes. I’m angry. But now, I’m more angry at someone who accuses me of actions that they don’t have any evidence that I’ve done, and when it comes in a frilly package called ‘I’m so nice’, yes, it’s very aggravating. I’m angry. I don’t even get this upset with the people who make the noises. They don’t know any better. At least, I hope they don’t. And their actions are not directed towards me nor are they any indictment of me or my character. Still, I do continue to pray for peace and grace, as well as for a tamed tongue and the discretion to say something when it may do some good, and to remain silent when it would do no good.

All I can do is base my comments on the content of your own.

I’m sure you’ve seen this a number of times. I can guarantee that you didn’t see me doing this any of those times.

OK

And again, my translator is buzzing with the, ‘I’ve got grace and strength and you don’t, nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah’ stuff. Your comments are very condescending, to be very frank with you.

I think your “translator” needs recalibration or possibly even reprogramming.

Just as much as those who may come into church and talk loudly and be distracting and not reverant in the church may be an annoyance, it’s not right to say to those who are not so guilty, ‘you’re the bad guy’.

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And no, I’m not waiting on any thing that even resembles an apology. I just ask that you not do to others what you’ve done to me. I’ve prayed for, and been blessed with, a tamed tongue in this situation. Others may not be so kind.

 

[Apryl]

No, it means you lack the grace/ability to concentrate at a level that is deep enough so such things don’t distract you.

Um.

Ok

You have a good night.

 

[bona_fides_1]

Bumping the thread - since I just got my Kindle today and wanted to say “I LOVE IT!”.

I have the new “Version 3 (Kindle 3G Wireless Reading Device, Free 3G + Wi-Fi, 6" Display, Graphite, 3G Works Globally)”. It was back ordered on Amazon for nearly 3 weeks.

To the OP - they have explicitly made some improvements on the page buttons to cut down on the physical tactile noise levels when paging. Noise is very soft - not even as loud as a cell-phone key click and softer sounding than very gently laying a wooden pencil down on a desk top. It’s even softer sounding than the gentle “click” that my Divine Mercy chaplet with the heavy medallion makes when I aggressively move to the next prayer bead and the beads bump it. If anyone complains of this noise - they have other problems and probably wake themselves up at night from the sound of their own breathing or heart beat

I just have to make a marketing plug here for the Kindle:

The Kindle just exudes simplicity - it has a minimal amount of packaging. I have to laugh because the screen resolution is so high and “active” even when powered off. The “digital ink” looks so real that I thought it was part of a thin clear-film packaging image that I needed to peel off before using it! LOL. I really though the screen image out of the box was a sticky protective clear cellophane label with lettering on it. As I was trying to peel it off I finally noticed that it said to simply plug in the charger and slide the power button on. OMG was I surprised when after doing that the note changed to an active display. LOL !

It looks like a real paper page and is does NOT get washed out in the sun. I sat out by the pool behind my condo and downloaded a free e-book (and also emailed myself a PDF document from my home PC to the device since Amazon gives a free personal kindle device email address to get electronic ebooks emailed to self if you want. The device automatically, almost magically, just got that e-book I wanted to read into my kindle’s library before I even sat down to start figuring it all out - a few seconds.

The 3G/WiFi network is FREE on this model and is always available anywhere a cell phone works. I also linked it to my own personal home internet network using my encrypted access WiFi/Internet Router (Linksys). That gets even faster Internet access than the free service and it automatically picks the fastest available network that it finds. I was totally impressed how fast I was surfing Amazon from my kindle to find more books to download (there are quite a lot of free ebooks too).

I then walked way outside out of range of my own home wireless router to our marina and sat in my boat. It lost my own home private Internet connection. But it then automatically switched to Amazon’s free Sprint EV-DO (Evolution-Data Optimized) network that is always available to kindle users. Apparently the ebook content is so inexpensive to market that they give the downloads away “free” of charge as part of the content price. What’s really cool is that you can download e-books to different devices if you have more than one and one can sync up your libraries or restore archived books or even surf the net and play mp3 files. Of course once you get the books you want on the kindle you can turn off the network and the rechargeable battery goes for 10 days of active use. Amazing.

I am totally impressed. Outside in the brightest and harshest sunlight conditions I could find (out by the pool and on my boat in the water) I was able to download a free trial copy of a national magazine/newspaper in a few seconds and read it. It was like reading a book with no glare whatsoever - even better than a book since the pages don’t get brighter in the sun like glossy book paper does. It’s a truly amazing device and well done.

I highly recommend this device. It’s going to be a “must have” for those who read a lot and want to have personal libraries containing hundreds and thousands of books (up to 3,500 books) in a small lightweight device ( only 7.5" x 4.8" x 0.335" 8.5 ounces!!). Public libraries are really obsoleted by this device once all the old books gets scanned in and converted.

BF

 

[FrDavid96]

Bumping the thread - since I just got my Kindle today and wanted to say “I LOVE IT!”.
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The Kindle just exudes simplicity - it has a minimal amount of packaging. I have to laugh because the screen resolution is so high and “active” even when powered off. The “digital ink” looks so real that I thought it was part of a thin clear-film packaging image that I needed to peel off before using it! LOL. I really though the screen image out of the box was a sticky protective clear cellophane label with lettering on it. As I was trying to peel it off I finally noticed that it said to simply plug in the charger and slide the power button on. OMG was I surprised when after doing that the note changed to an active display. LOL !
…BF

That’s funny because I did the EXACT same thing. I’m just happy I didn’t scratch the screen.

 

[rosary_kat]

I think that while there are things to ignore and just deal with, if we are the culprit and can avoid those things, we should do just that!

Reminds me of the teaching that we should best each other at doing good to one another. Bravo, OP.

 

[rosary_kat]

???

Why come? I mean, Rosaries are good and nice and all of that.

I do Rosaries all the time, but I often count on my fingers… I used to use my Palm for the Rosary (each click would be the same as saying the ‘Amen’ - ok, I still said Amen, but the machine and I were simpatico at this point)

Is there some rule about using Rosaries? I’m not trying to be dense. I have not heard of this, and would like to do the correct thing. Is there a ‘must’ to using the Rosary when saying a Rosary?

“The good practical Catholic always carries a rosary in his/her pocket”. You’ll find this advice in old prayer books. It’s one of those things a good Catholic mother would ask her child as he/she was going out the door: “Have you got your rosary?” Just an old and honored custom. Personally, I like running my fingers over the beads, especially in a stressful situation.

 

[rosary_kat]

Had to so some editing:

No. That was Isaac.

God said to Abraham “Take your Sony Isaac, your only Sony and go to the land of Motorola…” So they Sprint-ed off to do His bidding.

Abraham carried the Torch (because it was very hard back then to make one’s own Firefox) and the Sharp RAZR. Isaac (dressed only in an i-phod) carried the Kindle up to the Vista.

The Androids stayed at the base of the mountain with the donkey, because they were only Ally’s

God sent a Pixi to stay Abraham’s Palm

At that, they looked to the Verizon and found some RAM in a Nook tangled in a Blackberry.

All this because Adam and Eve Devour-ed the Apple.

This is all recorded in the notebook of Moses.

 

[OraLabora]

Gol darned it, call me old-fashioned but I still prefer an honest-to-goodness breviary in my hands, with a worn leather cover preferably, and lots of frayed page markers. Well, technically, you can’t call the Liturgy of the Hours a breviary, but it’s the closest we have these days.

And I work in IT with electronic medical records software…

Well at least I did prefer my breviary, until I started cycling to work once a week (I work from home the rest of the week), and I realized that I had to carry both a laptop on which I could read the LOH, and a breviary as well. And weight is everything when commuting to work with a backpack.

 

[bona_fides_1]

Gol darned it, call me old-fashioned but I still prefer an honest-to-goodness breviary in my hands, with a worn leather cover preferably, and lots of frayed page markers. Well, technically, you can’t call the Liturgy of the Hours a breviary, but it’s the closest we have these days.

And I work in IT with electronic medical records software…

Well at least I did prefer my breviary, until I started cycling to work once a week (I work from home the rest of the week), and I realized that I had to carry both a laptop on which I could read the LOH, and a breviary as well. And weight is everything when commuting to work with a backpack.

They make a beautiful black leather cover/case that opens up like a book and gives it a real book look. It has an integrated LED with stiff flat cable night reading light that retracts into the cover when not in use. It looks quite nice and appears like a classy smaller size book/folio. It would look very acceptable if used in an adoration chapel when it’s in the leather cover and read like a book since the cover takes off the “electronic” edge and the display does not “glow” like normal devices. It’s literally like reading ink paper.

I just downloaded about 50+ classic books from plato, socrates to Mark Twain and Milton for FREE. ZERO content cost! I also downloaded Liturgy of the Hours (free) and the Douay Rheims Bible (.98 cents) St. Aquinas Theologica, and a number of other saintly writings for FREE. I am better equipped now than some parish libraries are! I would not hesitate to bring this into an odoration chapel. But I’d have to think about doing that if I downloaded any “irreverent” content from a romance novel or secular news article or something like that - can delete those and redownload later from archive after leaving.

BF

 

[KarenElissa]

Gol darned it, call me old-fashioned but I still prefer an honest-to-goodness breviary in my hands, with a worn leather cover preferably, and lots of frayed page markers. Well, technically, you can’t call the Liturgy of the Hours a breviary, but it’s the closest we have these days.

And I work in IT with electronic medical records software…

Well at least I did prefer my breviary, until I started cycling to work once a week (I work from home the rest of the week), and I realized that I had to carry both a laptop on which I could read the LOH, and a breviary as well. And weight is everything when commuting to work with a backpack.

Yup, that is me too. I would much rather use my nice book, but I ride the bus, so using the app on my smart phone when I’m out wins over carrrying something else.

 

[FirstCalled]

To hack your kindle to allow custom screensavers.
wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kindle_Screen_Saver_Hack_for_all_2.x_and_3.x_Kindles
Attached are some of the images I put on.

 

[FirstCalled]

and a couple more

 

[bona_fides_1]

To hack your kindle to allow custom screensavers.
wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kindle_Screen_Saver_Hack_for_all_2.x_and_3.x_Kindles
Attached are some of the images I put on.

Awesome - thanks! I was wondering if I could customize the screen savers. I am trying to get an ebook on Kindle 3 tricks as the Kindle 2 has one that talks about hidden hot key combinations to short cut things. I was able to use the USB port to move mp3 sound files into the music directory on the kindle (which appears as another hard drive to the PC and can be “ejected”/unmounted so you can use it while connected via USB. Makes for some nice background music to listen to when reading but there is no sophisticated playlist under the experimental menu - just plays top to bottom from the directory files but can be skipped over with alt key combinations.

BF

 

[MommyofFive]

I don’t have a Kindle, but I’ve got a Sony e-Reader (touch version)…so there is no clicking sounds when I turn the page (unless I want to use the buttons for that)…like an iPad, I simply swipe my finger across to turn the page. No sound. I love that thing…and the fact I can carry many, many books (Scott Hahn is my current fav) has made this techno doubter not miss my “physical” books as much as I thought I would.

 

[FirstCalled]

I have enjoyed my kindle 3 very much the past couple weeks. Well worth the money. And I haven’t had any problem with the page turner button clicking loudly…

 

[bona_fides_1]

I think we are turning this into a Kindle FAQ thread LOL…

Here’s some GREAT info I found out about the Kindle that lets owners get access to a lot of the free books on google and ways to convert the popular epub formatted files from other publishers/sellers/providers using non-Amazon proprietary formatted book formats.

How to Do (Almost) Everything With a Kindle 3 (Reuters)

Retroread:Free Public Domain Google Books…
For Your Kindle!

BF

 

[FrCorey]

I have seen people with droid based phones using Imass and Imissal in church to follow along.

 

[FirstCalled]

Cool, thanks for the link, I didn’t know about collections and paging through each time is annoying.
As for the imissal/iphone use in mass. I don’t think I could become that progressive. lol. Using the kindle, which people know as a book reader and not for much else outside of mass is one thing, to use a multicapable device that people tend to hate hearing in mass is another.

 

[marytk]

For those who use a Kindle, I have found that if I have my Kindle on top of another book or notebook (paper not computer) the clicking sound is absorbed. It also helps if I use the little leather tab on the cover to push the button (or my sleeve I guess gloves would help too)

It is only in the extreme quiet of the Chapel that I even notice the clicking)

 

[cimorine]

Gol darned it, call me old-fashioned but I still prefer an honest-to-goodness breviary in my hands, with a worn leather cover preferably, and lots of frayed page markers.

Agreed! Everyone keeps tell me, “Oh yeah, in a few years, books will become electric and we will have all our books on machines etc!” I wanna cry at that . . . there is nothing like the smell of books, particularly good ones. lol, your “book” you describe sounds like my Joseph Bible!