For everyone in Scotland, this is one of those days where you want to be curled up in bed with a good book. In Edinburgh a 60 second walk along Princes Street had me looking like a drowned rat earlier; the zoo and the castle both closed early because of the weather; and according to twitter someone on Blackford Hill measured the wind travelling at 76 miles an hour. Truly autumn is here – if by ‘autumn’ you mean minor apocalypse.
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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:
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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”
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”
12 Books in 12 Months 