Waiting Room
171/365 Enjoying another chapter of Jane Eyre while I wait for Bristol Tyres Centre (Winterstoke Road; recommended) to fit a couple of new run-flats and new discs and pads all round on the Mini. Cheaper than BMW doing it for me at the upcoming MOT… Jane is still at school; I’m not getting through this book very quickly. […]
Obsolete Paper
It’s Spring. Or it feels like it, anyway. So I’m pruning my (paper book) library, picking out anything from the shelves that I’ll never read again, or that has no sentimental value, and chucking it into a cardboard box to be taken to a charity shop. Sadly, though, there are some books that shouldn’t even […]
Marco, on whether the e‑reader is “doomed” or not
Marco Arment has a good response to Matt Alexander’s suggestion that the e‑reader is already dead. Most telling for me was what I thought Marco was going to say in his last paragraph. I think it could equally well read: ‘I don’t think the e‑reader is “doomed” at all. It may just be relegated to […]