EBPC December 9, 2012!!! Who's in????

[Stitch70]

FE Exchange Update ​

We are up to 55 cabins participating It's not too late to join us (we have about 2 months til the cutoff). If you are interested in joining, please PM me your info. The spreadsheet is up to date with all the participants and can be accessed through our cruise website.

Happy planning everyone. I have my gifts done, just need to figure out how to get them to the ship!

Tammy

Tammy, i dont have enough posts to pm you. Can you pm me? I want to sign up for the FE.

 

[adnil530]

That's good to know that yu don't have to send in their current passports like you do with the adult ones. I will try to get dd's done at the end of this month then.

The passport rules are different when you are renewing one for someone who has turned 16. My daughter's passport expiration date was October 2012 and she turned 16 in May. We are traveling in November so I had to renew her passport. I could not find any info on how to renew someone who is 16 by mail so I called the Post Office to find out exactly what I needed and I needed to bring her, a copy or certified copy of her birth certificate, a copy front and back of my driver's license and her old passport. They kept the passport and all the documentation and she will get an adult passport in a few weeks. We could not do her passport by mail.

 

[LindaBabe]

Good Morning, Happy Cruisers!

No new news from here, so here's another question.


Book or EBook?

What Genre?

Books. Non Fiction.

Happy Day, all!

 

[BethC1952]

Good morning!

Ebooks...can carry an entire cruise of reading in the space of one book! I never leave home without my Nook, and when I travel, my IPad joins me too. Right now I'm reading Tara Road by Maeve Binchy. Not sure what's next!

Have a great day everyone!

Beth

Sent from my iPad using DISBoards

 

[dthogue]

Good Morning, Happy Cruisers!

No new news from here, so here's another question.


Book or EBook?

What Genre?

Books. Non Fiction.

Happy Day, all!

Love my Kindle, great to travel with

 

[dthogue]

Tammy, i dont have enough posts to pm you. Can you pm me? I want to sign up for the FE.

PM sent

 

[Cruise]

Regular books for me and probably non-fiction. I'll end up getting a tablet one of these days when my laptop dies... till then, I'll just deal with books.

 

[WVURunner]

Good Morning, Happy Cruisers!

No new news from here, so here's another question.


Book or EBook?

What Genre?

Books. Non Fiction.

Happy Day, all!

I love the feel of a book and never thought I would enjoy an e-reader but I got a Kindle in May and I am in love with it! Since I travel with work alot and sometimes don't always know my travel plans or how long I will be gone for, I love carrying around lots of books that weigh nothing. Instead of limiting my books on this cruise, I can bring a 100 and choose them based on my mood. I do still tend sometimes to read a "real" book at night.

I am about a 75% non fiction reader with the other 25% being fiction.

 

[skayrobe]

I use my iPad for almost everything these days. I have loaded books for the trip already. I don't have time to read them before we go so I really am looking forward to quiet reading time.

 

[Started With a Mouse]

Good Morning, Happy Cruisers!

No new news from here, so here's another question.


Book or EBook?

What Genre?

Books. Non Fiction.

Happy Day, all!

I've had a Kindle Fire for a few months now, and read occasionally. However, I still have a ton of Luanne Rice paperbacks in the house I need to catch up on... May bring two or three of those, then donate to the ship's library shelf (if they have one).

 

[socababy]

I also didn't think I'd prefer a kindle over an actual book but I used my kindle for the first time while on the Hawaii cruise and just fell in love with it!

 

[ChipperMerlin]

Good Morning, Happy Cruisers!

No new news from here, so here's another question.


Book or EBook?

What Genre?

Books. Non Fiction.

Happy Day, all!

Books and EBook - mysteries

I have a stack of 8 library books on my TBR pile, and three to take back to the library tomorrow. It's the end of the Adult Summer Reading program, so I need to go pick up my prize. I have loads of books on my iPad, and they will come along with me on the cruise.

 

[Chinook]

Kindle and iPad and maybe an actual book. It's mostly fiction for me.

 

[Jeff Spencer]

Hello all,

I've updated the Roll Call on the web site consistent with Liz's last update on page 6 of the thread. Work's been crazy the last month plus I took off a week to feed my aviation bug up at Oshkosh, WI. Anyone that would like to add a photo to their Roll Call listing just email it to me.

 

[Cruise]

For those of us bringing traditional books, maybe we can plan on bringing any we've finished to the ornament exchange (handy since it's halfway through the cruise) and put them on a table for anyone to browse through and take if they want new reading material. Any that aren't taken can be donated to the ship library at that time.

I'd only suggest that it's done with books we don't necessarily care about getting back so no one is running around the last night of the cruise worried about returning them. But it would work with any we were planning on leaving behind for the crew anyway.

Just an idea.

 

[mnewcomer]

Hello all,

I've updated the Roll Call on the web site consistent with Liz's last update on page 6 of the thread. Work's been crazy the last month plus I took off a week to feed my aviation bug up at Oshkosh, WI. Anyone that would like to add a photo to their Roll Call listing just email it to me.

How long have you been going to Oshkosh? Do you know Doggie Kline, he used to fly a 170 taildragger then near the end flew a SE-5 he built at his strip in AZ. ? He used to love Oshkosh every year! I never got to go with him but o e day I'll make it!

 

[buckeyesix]

I'll be bringing paperbacks, since I don't own an e-reader. I'm half tempted to ask DH for a kindle for an early Christmas present before we sail, but I don't know. I'm still resistant to giving up the physical books. I'm an avid reader, so I'm planning to check the kids into the kids' club for at least a few hours a day so that I can sit in a lounger and read. I'm guessing I'll go through 5-6 novels on the trip. More if they are short. I'm planning to go to the used bookstore at the library to stock up on a stack of paperbacks that DH, my dad, and I can share. We'll leave behind any that we finish, since they will only cost $.25 each!

I'm not participating in the ornament exchange (it would cut into my reading time too much ), but if we are all finished with any of our books by then, I'll drop by the room with our extras.

ChipperMerlin, I'm also a mystery fan. My favorite authors are Michael Connelly, Elizabeth George, Laurie King, CJ Box, Tami Hoag, Sue Grafton, Kathy Reichs, Tess Gerritsen -- I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch. I was recently impressed by In the Woods by Tana French, and Sacrifice by SJ Bolton, so I'm going to hunt down their sequels. When I find a new author I like, I try to start with their first book and then read them all in order. Who do you like? My want-to-read list is long, but I'm always on the look out for new ideas.

So many books, so little time! Can you tell you hit on one of my favorite topics? Both my undergraduate and graduate degrees are in literature, and I've worked in libraries, bookstores, and publishing. I also love children's literature, so reading to the kids, which we do a lot, is always fun!

 

[Cruise]

Regular books for me and probably non-fiction. I'll end up getting a tablet one of these days when my laptop dies... till then, I'll just deal with books.

I meant... fiction. Ever have one of those days? All day long I've been typing emails and talking in chat and saying the wrong word to people. I swear if I had any other symptoms, I'd think I was having a stroke. I mostly read smutty romance novels and chick lit on vacation. Pure mind candy.

I'm planning to go to the used bookstore at the library to stock up on a stack of paperbacks that DH, my dad, and I can share. We'll leave behind any that we finish, since they will only cost $.25 each!

I'm not participating in the ornament exchange (it would cut into my reading time too much ), but if we are all finished with any of our books by then, I'll drop by the room with our extras.

That's what I do too... hit the library for the used book sale and pick up a bunch of paperbacks for 25cents each.

And I should have said... anyone would be welcome to participate in the book thing, regardless if you're doing the Ornament Exchange. I don't even see it being a "leave one, take one" exchange thing.... just take them! They'd only be there if someone was done with them anyway.

 

[magicmaker1]

Good Morning, Happy Cruisers!

No new news from here, so here's another question.


Book or EBook?

What Genre?

Books. Non Fiction.

Happy Day, all!

While I love books at home, my kindle travels everywhere with me! Love the freebie ebook website too!

 

[RoxyHive]

I was also in the no ebook camp as I enjoy the feel of a real book until I borrowed my mom's Kindle - now I'm so in love with my Kindle touch I don't think I can go back for pure reading. Pictures are still best in the printed books so my bookshelf will remain for art & travel books!

I'm a biography lover myself, anyone read a good one lately?