OH has retreated to his study for safety! I’m not good with technology and I just get soooo frustrated when something that is being blogged or videoed or described here implies that it is all simple / straightforward / easy and IT IS ANYTHING BUT!!!
I would rather people were honest with me and say “this is going to take you hours, it’s going to intensely annoy you and at the end you probably won’t actually achieve what you want to do because actually it cannot be done for XYZ reasons which we forgot to make clear at the beginning”
You are not alone…
been driven mad myself by “simple” fixes/whatevers on YouTube
Deep breath… do something else… and come back to “whatever” later (much later… )
The opposite is also true. For example, I wanted to change a battery in a car key. I know the top comes off but I didn’t want to just force it with a screwdriver in case I broke a little tag or something. All I needed was a two line explanation or a fifteen second YouTube clip. Instead bloody idiots produce epic videos where you have to watch or scan through dross until it comes to the “just pull the top off” punchline. Are these clowns paid by hits or by hits and duration?
Yes, YouTube’s monetisation scheme rewards them higher for longer videos. Think the 10 minute mark is the sweet spot they aim for, as it means they can have adverts before, midway and towards the end. There are other requirements too around number of subscribers, etc… Also, if people stick around till the end of a video, then they get rewarded more than those who ditch partway through, which is why they spout rubbish about watching until the end for a bonus piece of information. It’s the YouTube equivalent of clickbait.
Thank you. Unfortunately I’m not the type of person who copes well with the nitty, gritty of getting technology to work. I’m quick, impatient and get bored easily. I naively bought into the whole “plug and play” scenario. And unfortunately communication in the IT world veers from the bright and cheerful and overly simplistic to the deeply obscure and incomprehensible, where I quickly get lost.
I’m designing a website using Squarespace and I find their help articles poor and the blogs overly simplistic. I’ll get there but it’s taking longer than I hoped and as I inch forward I quickly get frustrated because I have an idea in my head and then can’t make it happen.
So, I’ve been reading a wonderful book on Kindle. I hardly dare mention it here because it covers so much of what at the moment is challenging in the world - it’s the story of a Russian Jewish family from the end of the nineteenth century and the profound impact on them of the Russian revolution and the growth of socialism and Zionism and how the different individuals coped (or not). I’d love OH to read it because there are such profound parallels with his own family whose background is Polish. His parents came out after the war - his mother hidden under a tarpaulin on a lorry for three days, so many on the lorry all they could do was stand - travelling south and east. Other branches of his family stayed in Poland and came through all that communism threw at them. So I’ve read it on kindle and I think great, I’ll copy it across to him, but no, as I’ve described elsewhere. It’s a tiny thing, but it’s one more reminder (for me at least) that IT so often promises more than it delivers. Of course, I can buy him the book but I feel I shouldn’t have to.
Just tired and frustrated and wanting to get on with something else in my life - tonight it will be freezing and I need to be outside bringing all the summer bedding up onto the veranda so that some at least will survive the winter. That’s all.
Thanks Brian for listening.
It’s been on my list to redo ours as now looking tired and out of date, but I still remember the awfulness of trying to do it the first time and can’t summon the motivation to have another go. There are two photos that are a tiny smidgen out of alignment which depresses me each time I look at our site as I never managed to fix it!
I loathe grappling with technology. It is not my thing at all, but unfortunately even less for OH (who has only just graduated to an app-less smartphone) so I am stuck with it.
I wish! I’ve read the articles, followed the links, invited OH, he’s arrived. I can see nowhere on my French Amazon account to access the “household” and transfer the book to him…
I have two separate lists on Amazon - one with 25 books - OH can see those. I no longer can and have no idea where they are hiding. (On neither UK nor French purchases.) I briefly accessed them (no idea how) and saw there was the option to manage them via the household page.
The other list with 45 books has the one I want to transfer - it is on my French Amazon account and does not recognise that I have set up a “household”. I don’t think it’s possible to do so in France.
OH set up a Prime invitation thinking that might work - which I didn’t need as I am already paying for Prime myself. Nowhere on the French Prime invitation does it talk about a “household” or being able to share Kindle books.
I know the feeling! At the moment I’m relying on repeat business. The site I’m doing is for our photo club as I dog sit here in the kitchen. The more I work on it the more I’m aware how dated the gite site looks. OH has much more patience than I do but doesn’t have a clue about the creative front end so we are complete chalk and cheese - not great when he offers to help and then retires hurt!
I think the real issue is commercial and technological Sue. I don’t think that a household can be across Amazon countries. So to share both your Kindle accounts need to be on .co.uk or .fr. You can transfer your account from one country to another which should bring all previous purchases with it, assuming no copyright issues I suppose.
The way we’re set up is that my wife and my Kindles are logged in as me. My daughter in Oz is my other household adult, so we can all sahe any books we’ve bought on Amazon UK. She recently upgraded her Oz Kindle account to unlimited in the hope she could share with my wife and me but… we can’t create a household of Jill in Oz and me (notionally) in the UK (and my wife lurking behind me).
Sorry John, I’ve not explained properly - we’re not “across countries” - we both have Amazon fr accounts. I thought I was setting up my “household” in fr, but apparently not. I bought the book in France. All OH’s books in recent years have been bought in France.
Unfortunately I’m not the type of person who copes well with the nitty, gritty of getting technology to work. I’m quick, impatient and get bored easily. I naively bought into the whole “plug and play” scenario. And unfortunately communication in the IT world veers from the bright and cheerful and overly simplistic to the deeply obscure and incomprehensible, where I quickly get lost.
