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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

The Not Remotely Secret Memoirs of Alexander the Great, Aged 13¾, by arysteia

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[februaryfour]

*patpat* It DOES give you an excuse to upgrade, though. XD

If you learned to type on typewriters, the Shift key worked the same way as the Caps Lock key did, except the Shift key turned off automatically (IIRC)? Not having to hit Caps Lock again is helpful IMHO, which is why I use Shift. At least, that's how I remember it going. XD It took a while to train into it, but after that, it was second nature. I don't even know I'm doing it anymore until I think about it.

I'm trying to recall the impetus for switching to the Shift key. I think I read an article somewhere about how you could tell typists by their use of the Shift key, and the article was VERY MUCH on the side of Shift users as opposed to Caps Lock users--the article claimed that people who used Caps Lock were just less flexible than people who used both. O_o

Me, I typo so much that hitting Tab (above Caps Lock) was a constant problem. So Shift helped a LOT.

[issenllo]

Same rite? When you pressed the shift key then entire carriage/whatchacalit dipped, and it was a pain to hold it while YOU DO CAPS. Just as it was a huge pain to hold the entire carriage down via caps lock, but at least you did it only once.

Before I learnt to type I definitely used the shift key more. It looks like when I learnt typing I got into bad habits? Heheh. I don't think I'm switching back no matter what articles say - maybe that means I'll never be a more flexible typist or whatever, too bad. I'm just too used to the way I do it now.

[februaryfour]

*laughs* I say if you're satisfied with your speed, who cares what an article written 10 years (or more) ago said, right? ^_^