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[meganbmoore]

So, I just finished season 2 of Castle, which is generally quite fun and not faily (aside from the underuse of Lanie), and it gets better when the writers stop pretending that Nathan Fillon can play anyone but, well, Nathan Fillon, and it sometimes indulges in overly aware casting, like having the curator dude from The Mummy show up as a curator who believes in mummy curses (Though, no other shoe can possibly match Chuck and its overly aware genre geekery casting.  I swear, it must have killed the writers to have Brandon Routh and Kristen Kreuk around at the same time and not have them share scenes where they could trade knowing looks.) But there was a part at the tail end of the season that annoyed me.

 

Specifically, how Beckett's relationship with the robberies dude seemed to exist purely to get Castle to admit-to himself, at least-that e had romantic feeligns for her, and then she...suddenly realizes she has romantic feelings for him because Espisoto (I'm mispelling his name) told her she did.  Or more accrately, that Castle had feelings for her, which magically meant she had feelings for him.

Which doesn't affect my overall enjoyment, it just annoys.
 

Meanwhile, a question for Kindle owners:  What kind of internet capabilities does it have, if any?  (Research is not helping with this!)  I would basically want it (or other tech, like a Netbook) for travel, to cut back on lugging books with me, and to be able to check things online without using someone else's computer, or lugging Kraehe along with me.

 

 

 

Comments

[owlectomy]

Re Kindle:

If you get the 3G version, you can access the internet from anywhere that gets a 3G signal (anywhere in North America where you can get cell reception, I think -- so you're fine unless it's the complete wilderness or you're underground.) If you get the WiFi version, you can access the internet wherever you can log into a WiFi network.

The web browser is slow and primitive, though. I use it occasionally for emergency e-mail checks and the like (and just TRY using that keyboard to input a password that has mixed upper- and lower-case letters, numbers, and symbols!) but it doesn't hold a candle to a netbook or smartphone in the internet access department.

[meganbmoore]

Yeah, I suspect (and did as I was making the post) that I'll be going the netbook route, but exploring options is best. Thanks!

[snarp]

I've found my Kindle's fine for reading an LJ or DW list, but frustrating for anything else. Because it's very slow, it's no good if you don't know exactly where to find what you're looking for.

The things I most often want to use it for, but find it can't handle well, are Google Maps, Yelp, and Gmail.

[branewurms]

What they said. You can access the internet and use their experimental browser, but it's pretty clunky. Also the text on most pages is unreadably tiny unless you zoom in, and then if the text spans too wide an area, you have to scroll to read it.