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What program do you use? I have been thinking about something like this for some articles/memoes etc. Does this work with a lot of different text formats (word docs, web pages, pdf, ebooks)?
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I have written my own. It's currently under development and not at a state that is releaseable. At the moment, it uses a richedit control ands supports plain text, RTF and PDF. I am reworking it to be more flexible so you could provide a COM object that reads a specific format if one isn't provided.
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When I was young, I loved to read. However, after writing software for 20 years, reading technical manuals has changed the way I read. I tend to skim, which ruins reading for pleasure. An author has a real challenge getting into my head nowadays.
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Ahh...! That's to bad, I try reading something every night in order to get the current problem(s) out of my head (at least temporarily).
Here's some authors for you:
1) Anne McCaffrey (fiction and sci-fi): Anything she has written; because she does not spend pages explaining things before the story begins, but introduces them as the story unfolds. Try the Dragon Riders of Pern series. (Note: She is known as the author who made people love dragons, and lives on a horse ranch in Ireland call Dragon Hold).
2) Alan Dean Foster (fiction and sci-fi): A master writer. Although he has written many books I don't care for, his common-wealth series are worth reading (particularly the Flix series).
3) Lawrence Watt-Evens (fiction): A master writer. His ethshar series is a fun read, they all deal with things, or situations, that have gone totally wrong. His dragon series is also a good read (we're not talking dongens an dragons here).
Books like Moby Dick may be considered classics, but they are some of the most boring books I have ever read. After all who wants to read a book where the author spends two or three pages describing a room. I want a book that grabs you from the start, a book that makes you intimately familiar with the characters (so you care about them). Otherwise I skim the book, which means: I made a bad purchase, because it bored me.
In general (supposedly) fact based books are boring, biographies, etc... (but not always). Fiction based books (depending on the author) can grab your attention and make you wonder whether you can do with a little less sleep (just one more chapter), assuming a good author wrote it.
In case you have not notice, I love reading. Especially sci-fi/fiction, if that's not available I'll read: Discovery, Popular Science or Popular Mechanics (well actually I would read those anyway, amongst others).
I was trying to reinstall your love of reading, if we talked face to face (and you aren't to stubborn), I might have a shot.
P.S. Don't try to preform a book burning in front of me, I consider that taunt amount to sacrilege (and I'm not a religious man).
INTP
"The more help VB provides VB programmers, the more miserable your life as a C++ programmer becomes."
Andrew W. Troelsen
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Once there was time when I loved reading books and stories.
All those written images mixed inside my head, and produced so many new ideas, that I had to start writing stories myself.
Two months ago I finished my first SciFi novel[^]. My short stories are on a web site[^], because there are not enough good texts for another book, yet.
When I'll have finished writing down all those ideas, I think I'll start reading other people's stories again. 
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Please inform me about my English mistakes, as I'm still trying to learn your language!
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That's nice.  Too bad my German is limited to Guten Tag, Auf Wiedersehen and Gesundheit. 
Any translations available of either the book or the short stories?
Cheers,
Vikram.
http://www.geocities.com/vpunathambekar
"I don't have time to read all that, but I do believe those stats to be ludicrous." — Stan Shannon.
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Too bad, my English is limited to daily technobabble on CP. If I translated my stories, the result would be either too bad for native speakers, or contain a whole different plot. 
Maybe one day a really bilingual person might happen to like the book and translate it...
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Corinna John wrote:
too bad for native speakers
No problem, I'm not a native speaker. By the way, what's the meaning of Gratis in Gratis-Express über Nacht in die Buchhandlung. I got the word from here.[^]
<italic>Work hard, Work effectively.
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The meaning of Gratis is free of charge. In the mentioned context it means, that when a bookshop orders the book up until 3 p.m., it will arrive at the shop overnight (to be sold the next morning) while the no additional fee has to be paid ( libri is a wholesale for books, mainly distributing them to bookshops ).
There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't.
stolen from some message board
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No wonder. Gratis in my language is free of charge also. I think it was taken from German.
<italic>Work hard, Work effectively.
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Gratis is a term in Latin and various Romance and Germanic languages.
Look here: en.wikipedia.org[^] 
There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't.
stolen from some message board
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Hi Andre,
you were faster than me, thanks for the "gratis" translation.
BTW Libri uses the word misunderstandable: Do they give away the book free of charge to bookshops? Cool, they could sell it for a few cents...
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I will definitely check them out. I need a good excuse to practice my German.
BW
All the chickens get it.
And them singing canaries get it.
Even strawberries get it.
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Is reading up on the mechanism of CListCtrl considered work-related? 
<font=arial>Weiye Chen
Life is hard, yet we are made of flesh...
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If you need CListCtrl for your work, it is, of course, work-related. But it's different if you just read about it, because you like CListCtrl so much that you want to spend your time with it.
BTW do you already have a CListCtrl T-shirt, with a screenshot on the front and code on the back? That could become the uiltimate must-have for all CListCrtrl fans.
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I think it depends on whether the ,ahem, one handed literature counts as reading
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.
- Hermann Goering
At the Nuremberg Trials after World War II
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where can I get some of that?
sounds kind of like atlantis to me ;P
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I second that. And if I had any spare time I highly doubt I would spend any of it reading anything non work related as I don't have enough patients to read.
John
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Some of the people here are obviously living in an uptopia. My days can not have enough hours. I have so many ideas I would like to work on and whenever I get a chance to get some work done, my girlfriend suddenly appears between me and my monitor...
I wish that I had some more time.. 
Behind every great black man...
... is the police. - Conspiracy brother
Blog[^]
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Bob Stanneveld wrote:
and whenever I get a chance to get some work done, my girlfriend suddenly appears between me and my monitor
Same here. But there are definitely rewards to this...
John
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Behind every great black man...
... is the police. - Conspiracy brother
Blog[^]
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About three months ago i was talking the same way you do.I got sick and the doctor said because of stress.Today is the second day i'm not taking medication.For a year and half i was working on a crazy schedule because i was under the analysis and development of the e-prescribing project for the biggest social insurance provider of my country.
Fellows there's nothing more precious than our health.You say you got "so many ideas".So what???They can wait.I was getting out of my sleep because something occured to me and i couldn't wait to implement it.Relax.
No deadline,no milestone, no crazy schedule or overnight job is more precious than your health.In the first place if you don't have your health none of those can be met.Secondly if you are an employee none will pay attention for you because : public class Employee:IDisposable {}
It's obligatory to have spare time.Additionally we have to spend "quality" spare time otherwise it makes no sense (e.g. What's the point of sleeping 10 hrs?Go play some football(i love football...you can go fishing,climbing etc)).
There is also a very tricky point in this conversation.Coding was my hobby(and i believe of many of the people in here).It made me happy and that's why i was tireless and need no spare time.Don't let other people or deadlines ruin your happiness or take advantage of your hobby.I did so and now i got to find a new hobby.
Relax and there is a solution for everything as long as we're healthy.
Take care all of you.I'm going vacation for the first time in my life.
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Can't argue with that!  .
Behind every great black man...
... is the police. - Conspiracy brother
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What?
I mostly read science fiction, primarily space opera. Favorite recent books include Red Thunder by John Varley and The Excalibur Alternative by David Weber.
When?
Usually at night before I go to bed. I also take a book with me whenever I'm going to have to wait somewhere (doctor's office, for example).
Where?
In bed, sometimes on the couch.
Why?
It helps me unwind. I hate being bored, hence the book when I'm waiting (see 'when' above).
Software Zen: delete this;
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