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[issenllo]

1) Random question: Do you use the shift key for capital letters or the caps lock key? Was watching classmates typing notes yesterday (finally deciding to sit at the back row instead of front) and noticed (a) a few using the shift key and (b) others typing with two fingers.

2) Am I old school to assume that you ought to have keyboarding skills?

3) Lost my kindle last week by stupidly putting it down in a fast food place and not realising it until 2 hours later. By then, of course... >_> I'm by turns tickled and alarmed to think that someone is reading Skyfall slash on it. (Got kindle deregistered but its contents are there. Didn't lose data, though; I backed up my kindle just a few days before.)

4) Have excuse now to buy a Paperwhite, even though it hits a bit at my finances.

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Cold Burn, Sherlock/John, magical AU, Sherlock BBC, by anactoria

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Comments

[sabriel]

I use the shift key for capital letters when typing. My mother had an old book that taught typing for typewriters and I taught myself how to type using that. So I'm definitely 'old school' when it comes to keyboarding? It's a necessary skill nowadays, though if computers keep shifting towards touchpad, it might not be so in another decade or two.

[qem_chibati]

1. Caslock for sentances, I use shift with my left pinky for the start of Sentences And What Not when typing. (And then use ring finger on typing up Capital A's and middle for Capital W's etc.)

2. No. It's a very necessarily skill being able to type competently in today's world, for the majority of people IMO.

3. Ack. Maybe you'll get lucky and it will turn up later for you. (My sister lost her phone doing the same, and it turned up later in my car (which she had borrowed at the time). Both me and Serena had searched the car before it showed up.

4. :( - hopefully you'll enjoy the purchase anyway.

[februaryfour]

I'm really sorry to hear about the Kindle! T_T It IS an excuse to upgrade, but man, ouch. (*as one who has been in a similar situation*)

I use the Shift key for a LOT, and it would have to be a sentence or so of letters before I use the Caps Lock key. (I _do_ use the Caps Lock key for tax forms, simply because typos are easier to catch in caps lock.) I think that keyboarding is important. I don't care as much about how you type (I don't use my whole hands, apparently, just three fingers on each hand, with the thumbs on the space bar and the little fingers used for Shift and such.) Speed, however, is important. If you can't type to keep up with your thoughts, it's going to be hard to keep up with a professor going on at full speed, for starters. (Sadly, I am much hampered by typos unless I am looking at the keyboard.)