Hooray! I finally splashed out on a Kindle a few weeks ago. Nothing special, just the basic 3G one, no fancy backlights, touchscreens, HD or anything like that. It's fab. I can read with the font as big as I want to to be. If I put it down on the table to read while I'm eating , the pages don't flip over. It's easier to carry than a book. I haven't got to music and stuff yet, but I get the London Evening Standard delivered Monday to Friday for under a fiver. The only problem is it's too easy to download books.
My current Shelfari books are there at the moment, except the Howard Jacobson one. I recommend The Patient Paradox by Margaret McCartney. She's a Scots GP with a fantastically critical mind, questions everything that's current wisdom in medicine, and back her questions up with the lack of evidence for current practice. It's written for lay people, and finally even I can understand randomised trials, double blind trials and absolute and relative risk.
The travel book on the Himalayas is only just started. It's another one by a GP who packed up and went off to Nepal with her family. I'll write about it here if it seems interesting enough. So far it's not brilliant writing.
Finally...I'm now reading Double Cross by James Patterson. It's on the sofa and gets dipped into now and then in the commercial breaks while I'm watching something else. Might go and see the film Alex Cross when it's released.
Welcome back on here!!! Congratulations for your new 'toy'. Some friends of mine have got Kindles and they always say that they use them much more than they expected to. Interesting coincidence: yesterday, I went to a bookseller and happened to see the 'Patient Paradox'. I found the title suggestive but didn't buy it...
ReplyDeleteWas it in Portuguese? I'm impressed if so. She's a fantastic writer.
ReplyDeleteYes, it was in Portuguese.
DeleteWelcome to the Kindle World. I have had mine almost a year - also no fancy stuff, just plain Kindle (and I even have it as an app on my iPhone). I have all my books in Goodreads now, as I like it better than Shelfari and it is linked to the evil Facebook. I read both english and german makes no difference I have discovered the Scandinavian authors and just love them. An advantage reading German is that the translations appear in German before english. Anyhow have fun
ReplyDeleteHei Giles!
ReplyDeleteLooks like a grand site ere for you.
I'm on wordpress, though not really doing much there either at the moment... :)
Keep so grand and well. Rii