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This is the first ever printed collection of short stories from my 2 literary seminars (there are 10 ebooks or something like that).
Erased some info, due to being paranoid, but the cover is the important thing
The title and subtitle is:
The Day After - 21 stories of logic and fantasy
Erased some info, due to being paranoid, but the cover is the important thing
The title and subtitle is:
The Day After - 21 stories of logic and fantasy
Grendeldef
Trancerelic & coffeeholic
I've been running a test of a sort - experiment would be too fancy description - for a while now as summer is well over here. Partly due to not having all the windows back in their place but mainly inspired by the current affairs, especially in regards to energy or rather to the (potential) lack of it. Heating in my house is still not on - today when I woke up the temp in the kitchen was 10.5C (51F) which is "a bit" lower than what most people are used to. Outside temps have been around 5C at night and peaking 10-15C daytime.
My original plan was to turn the heating back on when the first morning temp is below 10C but now I'm not so sure as this isn't bad at all - for me this basically prolonged camping without the wind & bugs but with electricity. I admit that I still take warm showers instead of cold ones as while I'm sort of fine taking cold showers I don't enjoy them and I regularly go to sauna, a proper one but other than that only constant sources of heat in the house are a fridge & 2 freezers and people, mostly just me, and comps when they're on but I'm not running any of them 24/7 atm.
The oil burner is turned off most of the time as it provides a fair mount of heat even when the water circulation is turned off. I just turn it on when someone's about to take a shower etc. A bit annoying task but for the science I can live with it. I really do wish I could do it with a phone/tablet/comp of some sort, though.
I had no doubt in advance that I could do this but it's been easier than I thought. I don't mind wearing a bit more than usually and even working with comps isn't that bad as I most often use cycling gloves anyway - even gaming isn't that tricky with them on.
Based on this it seems I could drop my oil consumption by 50% if I wish to without inconveniencing myself too much though the situation might be (much) worse in winter and more if I had to baring in mind that I can afford the oil/electricity I use so my situation is purely self-inflicted which is not even close to what people feel when they have no other options. I also assume that having toddlers or even older kids around would make this much harder.
Any thoughts other than the man from the north is nuts which I already know?
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Made a rare exception and added the figure in Fahrenheits, too.
My original plan was to turn the heating back on when the first morning temp is below 10C but now I'm not so sure as this isn't bad at all - for me this basically prolonged camping without the wind & bugs but with electricity. I admit that I still take warm showers instead of cold ones as while I'm sort of fine taking cold showers I don't enjoy them and I regularly go to sauna, a proper one but other than that only constant sources of heat in the house are a fridge & 2 freezers and people, mostly just me, and comps when they're on but I'm not running any of them 24/7 atm.
The oil burner is turned off most of the time as it provides a fair mount of heat even when the water circulation is turned off. I just turn it on when someone's about to take a shower etc. A bit annoying task but for the science I can live with it. I really do wish I could do it with a phone/tablet/comp of some sort, though.
I had no doubt in advance that I could do this but it's been easier than I thought. I don't mind wearing a bit more than usually and even working with comps isn't that bad as I most often use cycling gloves anyway - even gaming isn't that tricky with them on.
Based on this it seems I could drop my oil consumption by 50% if I wish to without inconveniencing myself too much though the situation might be (much) worse in winter and more if I had to baring in mind that I can afford the oil/electricity I use so my situation is purely self-inflicted which is not even close to what people feel when they have no other options. I also assume that having toddlers or even older kids around would make this much harder.
Any thoughts other than the man from the north is nuts which I already know?
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Made a rare exception and added the figure in Fahrenheits, too.
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@Grendeldef I agree that as soon as you add one or more people to the equation, things will change. Accommodating differing sets of expectations can be tricky. My wife likes the house cooler and colder; I prefer it warmer. She prefers not using the heat until November; She likes to use the AC more in the summer etc. It takes figuring out. 
Grendeldef
Trancerelic & coffeeholic
Oh yes, adding more components to the system makes it much harder so I'm not advicing a member of couple/threesome/collective to pull this one out if they want to keep the status quo of immediate relationships. For one living alone it wasn't as drastic as I expected.
Grendeldef
Trancerelic & coffeeholic
Thanks for the invitation but based on the numbers you offer I don't think my experiment works in Spanish.
Why are paperbacks nicely uniform in size, when hardbacks are all over the place? It makes my library look messy.
Annoyingly it means presents bought for me are often to be disguarded and I then go out and buy the paperback.
Unless it is some collector's edition, I see no point in buying hardbacks.
Tbh now with the internet I barely see a point in buying the printed book
Can't say I have actually read a book in a long time. Still looks nice on a shelf though.
I also dl new eyes every once in a while
For many who grew up with newspapers and paper books, digital is just "OK" and the tactile immersion of holding and reading superior. By the time GenZ takes over, books and their like will be mostly gone. The revival though will take decades to show up.
Most likely. Barring eyesight fatigue, computers just allow for more practical additions to text, making it hypertext (anything from links to words' meanings to online articles on the piece you are reading).
There was some charm in the pre-fast internet era, when you'd read a book and then have to (manually, buying more books etc) search for stuff mentioned in it, but really from a practical standpoint it is just terrible, highly expensive and time-wasting
I have roughly 1000 (printed) books, and I doubt I am likely to buy even 20 more, since with pdf/ebook and similar I just have no need for that.
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