Understandable. Since I've been commuting for 3-4 hours a day (not everyday of the week, 2-3 days), I've been doing a lot of my "reading" via Audible. I never really thought I would like that method of consuming literature, but it has turned out to be very good for me. I can tell if I'm listening to a good book based upon if I skip TV watching to listen to the book or the other way around. It has been a lot more listening to Audible than watching TV of late (currently doing the Song of Fire & Ice Series with a couple Harry Dresden novels in between the big Fire & Ice books).
-- David Risner Software Engineer MERLOT, California State University On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:57 AM, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:41 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Why did you change now? I thought there were keeping the status quo for >>> current subscribers until September 1? >> >> I haven't changed yet. If changing the plan now will lower the monthly >> rate to $12 I'll do so quickly, if the rate will stay at $15 no matter >> what, I'll wait until the end of August. > > More to the point, I read about others who switched to streaming-only > plans and lost their queues. I suppose I am just mentally preparing > myself for life without streaming. I'm telling myself it's better to > make a clean break rather than going to the streaming queue for the > next 6 weeks and deciding which of the 150 films/TV series in the > queue I'm going to have to give up on in that format. > > And to get a little more personal with it, I pretty much gave up going > to the movies in the late nineties. And not having any cable movie > channels, I just gave up watching movies and started compiling a > mental catalog of movies I'd really like to see someday if the > opportunity arose. When Netflix came there was a satisfying period of > a couple of months where I could scour my memory or leaf through TCM > listings or Maltin books, identify movies in my must-see list, and add > them to my queue. In my first two years as a Netflix member I watched > about 100 movies each year (I counted). My must-see list is depleted. > I still have long queues for both DVDs and streaming, but those are > more opportunity movies, movies I would like to see if I get a chance, > but if I don't there are no regrets. > > And at the same time I started Netflix I made a personal commitment, > in the form of a New Year's resolution, not to buy any new books until > I finish reading the books I already own. While I haven't been perfect > on the buying side, although I have gotten a much better sense of > impulse control, my lack of speed in getting through books is > dismaying. The two main factors keeping me from reading are time spent > on the internet and time spent watching Netflix movies. I have cut > back my time spent on the net considerably and I hold on to Netflix > discs longer, not pushing myself to watch them immediately when I get > them and exchange them quickly. > > Which leads to my final answer: I am considering dropping Netflix > streaming before September 1 in order to free up more time for > reading. > > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
