I’m a longtime PC guy thinking about switching it up to Mac. Macs look nice and sleek but whenever I take a peak at one in the store and see all the ways its operating system is different from Windows I feel like I’m about to get dumped into the middle of downtown Mumbai without knowing anything about the local language or customs and being expected to find my way home.
On the other hand, there is something about Microsoft Word that bugs me. It tries too hard to anticipate what it thinks I want to do that sometimes it keeps me from doing what I actually want to do. Change a margin for effect on one paragraph on page 1 and it still wants to change it on page 50. Do a numbered list and it tries to do a number list everytime you subsequently write a number. Can Pages be any better? But – doesn’t most of the civilized world already use Word and therefore my writing most be Word formatted to receive any kind of consideration?
THE QUESTION OF THE DAY:
Is an Apple or a PC a better computer for writers (and also -Word or Pages – which is better for writing?)
Bookshelf Battle 
Rather than spend lots of money, have you thought about buying something like Scrivener? I know several writers who use it. The learning curve is pretty steep but from a writing perspective it is supposed to be one of the best. (http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php).
I’ll have to check it out. I take it you’ve had good experience with it then?
Most Mac users I know still use MS Word for word processing; I’ve never used Pages at all. But I don’t write on a Mac, so not an expert 🙂
I do use Google Docs (or rather, Drive), especially during NaNoWriMo when I’m writing from different locations on different computers. I have also heard good things about Scrivener and keep meaning to look into it.
Thanks Mei-Mei. And great blog you have there.