Today I am going to post a few negative words about kindle at the behest of Twitter user @JacToTheFuture, who is trying to find reasons other than immediate financial impracticality why she should stick to paper. So here you go, ten reasons not to buy a kindle, which you should listen to as I am currently in possession of a borrowed kindle and have read stuff on it and everything.
One of the main defenses I’ve heard for kindle is the fact you can make books large print at the touch of a button.
I can now confirm that this ain’t no word of a lie – look how unnecessarily enormous you can make the text if you so desire! Surely nobody is this blind and still attempting to read traditional print? If you are that person, now is the time to switch to audio books. Seriously.
There are a number of different size settings, and you can also change the line spacing (perhaps you want to be reminded of a dissertation you once wrote that was all double spaced, whatever floats your boat) and alter the typeface if it makes you happy. The whole thing is designed to be nice to read off, and it genuinely is, although there are one or two things that niggle after a lifetime of reading pages with text on both sides, to wit:
Continue reading “The Great Kindle Challenge: Day 3”
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Today I have discovered that the kindle is full of mysteries. Well, I say full, but that isn’t what I mean. What happened was I noticed a thing it was doing that I have no idea what it was talking about, and rather than googling it to find out I took photos to show you. Continue reading “The Great Kindle Challenge: Day 2”
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So here I am, poised and ready to enjoy reading a book on the kindle. I have been prepped so I know it is NOT a touch screen device; you turn the pages by pressing buttons. It’s basically like living in the olden days, technology wise. Remember buttons? They were fun, weren’t they. Although sometimes you used to get things stuck under them – bits of cake, usually, or foliage – and then you had to prise them off with a nail file or a straightened out paper clip to get the stuff out. They went back on OK but they were never really the same again. Continue reading “The Great Kindle Challenge: Day 1”
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“I’ve got an idea for your blog,” Bob said mysteriously at the office tea point one morning, “but I won’t tell you about it now, I’ll speak to you later.”
Then he vanished into the mist like he’d never been there at all. Being as how I’m not much of a pre-10am person this was a little befuddling. Why was our office so misty, and on a sunny day? Still, an hour or two of putting together resource packs sorted me right out. By the time he reappeared to expound on his idea, I was alert as a tack.
Continue reading “End of Books: The Return”
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Apparently this month I elected to write a book in the key of ‘humour’. I’m not really sure what possessed me to pick that – genres were allocated back in December 2010, which was a different time altogether.
Remember December 2010? It was a whole different time, wasn’t it? Of course it was. Remember Snowpocalyse? Public transport drew to a standstill and there was ice on the inside of the windows of your flat and you had to wear a dressing gown over your other layers of clothes for fear of getting pneumonia? Although that might just have been in my house… Oh, and remember Matt Cardle off the X-Factor getting to number one with a fairly average Biffy Clyro cover? That was adequate, wasn’t it. And remember civil unrest kicking off in Tunisia? Heady days indeed, they ended up getting rid of their political leader. December 2010 eh, it was another world.
And in that world, I arbitrarily decided that in 9 months time I’d be in the mood to write something funny. You might think that my natural wit would see me through nae bother, but there are one or two problems occurring.
Continue reading “Tell Us A Joke”
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