Hi, just found the book that started my dad and I on the long, long journey when I was a child, and it's free on Nookbooks! If you have a Nookcolor, it can be downloaded from the Barnes & Noble site on line. I've noticed on RV forums that the movie was very popular and I remember my dad actually crying with laughter over Lucy and Desi blundering their way down the road. My mother must have seen it coming, because she only managed an apprehensive grin. The book is hilarious and probably funnier because the imagination is engaged and as an RVer fulltimer it seems even funnier than the movie. Albeit, I drive a 27 RSB Born Free and the adventures have been interesting, I will never forget my parents pulling that 30-plus foot behemoth behind us. Reading the book, "the happy highways that I traveled" all came back and I'm once more a child listening to the hum of tires and feeling free. Happy trails, Scottie Girl
NorCal Dan said
08:58 AM Mar 15, 2011
I was unable to locate the book. Do you have any more info, ie. author? Thanks.
Roll Me Away said
01:04 PM Mar 15, 2011
The author is Clinton Twiss. If you have an e-reader like Nookbook, go to the Barnes and Noble site and click on ebooks, put in The Long Long Trailer, and it should pop up and you can download it. It worked great for me and I hope you are able to have good results as well. I don't know if Kindle gets it or not, but there should be some sort of format with which you can download it and read. I hope you'll keep us posted.
Scottiegirl
NorCal Dan said
07:45 AM Mar 16, 2011
Found it on B&N, apparently free, but Amazon only has the hardback book as it isn't listed for the Kindle.
Roll Me Away said
10:02 AM Mar 16, 2011
I'm sorry to read that you can't get it on Kindle. An idea: call the B&N 800 number and see if there's a way to download it as a PDF file onto your computer. It may be possible to do that. If so, you can download it onto a USB jumpdrive (thumbdrive) and it's only 176 pages, a small book, and read it right from your computer screen. However, I would try B&N and Kindle at Amazon. I think someone at B&N told me any ebook can be downloaded to either ereader. Also Amazon may have information on how to download to computer. It also may be another ebook site as well. It's worth the effort I think because looking back to RVing or camping through Twiss' eyes is not too unsimilar to today's experiences made more hilarious by that very fact that they are wild-eyed novices. I'm in the middle of it at present. Scottiegirl
Roll Me Away said
10:18 AM Mar 16, 2011
Hey, I just got off the phone with B&N and the techie tells me that you can go to the B&N Website and download a FREE app. for your computer which will allow you to download the ebook from their ebook site onto your computer. You will have to do that to get the free ebook, just download the free app into your computer from the Website, then go to the nookbook section of B&N and download to your computer. Kindle is propriatary and won't accept other systems. So the way around that is to get the app. and get the book onto your computer. Better than nothing. Sigh. Good luck.
NorCal Dan said
10:29 AM Mar 17, 2011
Hope their app works on Mac computers ;)
Roll Me Away said
12:57 PM Mar 17, 2011
When you find out about Mac, let me know as I've got a Macbook pro, and would like to download ebooks there as well as on the Nookcolor. BTW, there's something called Gutenberg on line that has tons of all sorts of books, many, many classics that people in RVs might find interesting...some books like Shakespeare, Melville's Moby Dick, and just readable fiction....many categories including fiction and mystery and biographies, history, et cetera, that would be nice to download on rainy days. Well, I'm a lifelong nerd. One thing to note, there are some punctuation and grammar glitches. I'm a professional editor, and when I downloaded With the Old Breed, Eugene Sledge's book on WWII Pacific Campaign, I found odd spacing and odd characters for punctuation in spots. So I roared down to B&N to confront whatever "illiterate" put out such a thing, only to find that machines...yeppers, machines, scan the older books and make little glitches...but the contents are all there in the book. The upside of that is I guess we don't have to worry about the computers taking over the human essence in the world. Keep us posted. Scottiegirl
Roll Me Away said
01:00 PM Mar 17, 2011
By the way, what kind of dog is that in your photo? I have a standard chocolate poodle that size...Is yours a poodle? Just curious. Scottiegirl (a Scottie or two and the poodle)
NorCal Dan said
07:13 PM Mar 17, 2011
While the main page didn't list an reader for the Mac when I went in to the download area there was a link to the Mac version. Once I signed up for an account I was able to download the book. I read the first couple pages and I like his style, looking forward to reading it. Thanks for bringing this to the forum.
Oscar, our dog, was a rescue so we have no idea what breed he is...but going on looks we believe he most resembles the Wirehaired Pointing Griffon. He loves people and traveling in the RV. He doesn't shed, might have a little poodle in him. He points naturally. And he loves the beach, I think it's the great traction in the sand. My last blog entry has a short video of him on the beach with us.
-- Edited by NorCal Dan on Thursday 17th of March 2011 07:14:43 PM
heyjohnm said
07:48 AM Mar 18, 2011
This book and many other free books can be loaded to your Kindle by means of a ebook converter called Calibre E-book management. http://calibre-ebook.com/ Use the recently released Nook app to download the book and other B&N free books to your computer and then use Calibre to format them for the Kindle. (Should work in reverse for Nook owners to download Amazon free books to a Kindle app and convert them to Nook via Calibre.) Also, Kindle users can expand their use of the Kindle through the web browser by a weblink Kinstant. Kinstant links you to the best websites, specially formatted for the Kindle's web browser. Try it..you'll love it. ... RV-Dreams Journal loaded directly to your Kindle (sans color photos). Now that's what I'm talk'in about!
NorCal Dan said
10:33 AM Mar 18, 2011
Thanks John. I installed Calibre on my iMac and am currently trying to figure how to use it. Thanks for sharing this info, very helpful.
NorCal Dan said
03:13 PM Mar 23, 2011
Finished reading the book today...had a lot of laughs reading about their trip. Hope others get the chance to read this book. Some things never change and RV'ing is no different.
Happy trails,
Scottie Girl
I don't know if Kindle gets it or not, but there should be some sort of format with which you can download it and read.
I hope you'll keep us posted.
Scottiegirl
Also Amazon may have information on how to download to computer. It also may be another ebook site as well. It's worth the effort I think because looking back to RVing or camping through Twiss' eyes is not too unsimilar to today's experiences made more hilarious by that very fact that they are wild-eyed novices. I'm in the middle of it at present.
Scottiegirl
Kindle is propriatary and won't accept other systems.
Better than nothing. Sigh.
Good luck.
BTW, there's something called Gutenberg on line that has tons of all sorts of books, many, many classics that people in RVs might find interesting...some books like Shakespeare, Melville's Moby Dick, and just readable fiction....many categories including fiction and mystery and biographies, history, et cetera, that would be nice to download on rainy days. Well, I'm a lifelong nerd.
One thing to note, there are some punctuation and grammar glitches. I'm a professional editor, and when I downloaded With the Old Breed, Eugene Sledge's book on WWII Pacific Campaign, I found odd spacing and odd characters for punctuation in spots.
Keep us posted.
Scottiegirl
Scottiegirl (a Scottie or two and the poodle)
Oscar, our dog, was a rescue so we have no idea what breed he is...but going on looks we believe he most resembles the Wirehaired Pointing Griffon. He loves people and traveling in the RV. He doesn't shed, might have a little poodle in him. He points naturally. And he loves the beach, I think it's the great traction in the sand. My last blog entry has a short video of him on the beach with us.
-- Edited by NorCal Dan on Thursday 17th of March 2011 07:14:43 PM
This book and many other free books can be loaded to your Kindle by means of a ebook converter called Calibre E-book management. http://calibre-ebook.com/ Use the recently released Nook app to download the book and other B&N free books to your computer and then use Calibre to format them for the Kindle. (Should work in reverse for Nook owners to download Amazon free books to a Kindle app and convert them to Nook via Calibre.) Also, Kindle users can expand their use of the Kindle through the web browser by a weblink Kinstant. Kinstant links you to the best websites, specially formatted for the Kindle's web browser. Try it..you'll love it. ... RV-Dreams Journal loaded directly to your Kindle (sans color photos). Now that's what I'm talk'in about!
