Having just been given a Kindle I have been busy downloading all I can that is free! I love Jane Austen for a soothing read, no matter how often I read her books they never lose their appeal (except NorthangerAbbey). Have discovered that George Eliot is still eminently readable. I also like prehistoryand have several books by Francis Pryor which are also very readable, as is Mike Pitts' "Hengeworld". For comfort reading I like Rosamund Pilcher. When I look at my shelves they are stacked with history and auto/biographies. I would like to discover a modern meaty writer but not too gritty as I feel my life is gritty enough! So will follow this thread with interest.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Brilliant is it not Diana?
Mine is one of the best buys I have ever made....
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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someone told me that they had over a thousand books on their kindle.
is that possible?
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Yes Howard - they hold over 3,000.
You can also archive books to increase your capacity beyond that, downloading them when you want to.
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Ah but nothing smells better than a dusty old favourite book. I can still recall the smell of our first Enid Blyton and Beatrix Potter books.
Marek
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I have a kindle as well despite being a total lover of proper, musty fusty books. I love them all! My kindle also has loads of freebies on it Diana - what a bargain, eh?!
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I would never purchase a kindle or e- book. In some aspects i am very stuck in my ways. My friends can't understand why i prefer real books to the digital version. My friend lent me her kindle once to see how i get on with one. I just couldn't get on with it. The only advantage is the backlight so 'im indoors could sleep without me having the bedside lamp on.
The books i've recently been reading are Mark Billingham... Sleepyhead/ death message and from the dead
Kathy Reichs/ 206 Bones
Martina Cole/ Runaway and Lady Killer
Lisa Gardiner/ Hide
I am currently reading again Douglas Adams/ Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy
I've been given all of Patrica Cornwells Tomes and intend to start reading them soon.
I have books all over the house. I should really convert my spare bedroom into a library.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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mark billingham gets a mention, read a few of his including "sleepyhead".
he alternates between being very good and very bad, which is rare in a writer.
i can only think that he is contracted to turn out a certain number of books in a period.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Lorna - that could not have been a Kindle because it is e-ink screen which is not back-lit. That said you can buy a leather cover that contains a light that pulls out to shine down on the screen (as distinct from back-lit), pricey at £50! I fully understand why some won't like it and I do not see it necessarily as a replacement for books but simply as a more convenient way of enjoying them. Looking forward to my holiday - perfect for that!
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I am planning, after a new volume on the Korean war, to reread Steven Runciman's excellent three volume history of the crusades. The opening scene setting in Volume one goes to show how little has changed over the last 900 years.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Have just treated myself to Simon Baron-Cohens new book Zero Degrees Of Empathy, the subtitle of which is A New Theory Of Human Cruelty. It takes in stuff like sociopathy and autism, behaviours and drivers behind empathy and how that occurs. I enjoy his work - looking forward to it.
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Bern
Nothing like a bit of light reading after a hard day at the office..
Marek
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Brian Dixon
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just been given a copy of mien kamp b a.hitler who was compleatly bonkers.
wil get round to reading it one day.
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'I laughed from the moment I picked up your book to the moment I put it down. Some day I intend reading it'.
-Groucho Marx to a fan who had sent him a copy of a book he had written.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
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Hey Ho ploughing my way through W. Somerset Maughams sixty-five short stories, LOL!!!! PaulB is trying to educate me
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Jan
No comment
Marek
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A couple go on holiday to a fishing resort in the Lake district. The husband likes to fish at the crack of dawn. The wife likes to read.
One morning the husband returns after several hours of fishing and takes a nap. Although not familiar with the lake, the wife decides to take the boat out. She motors out a short distance, anchors, and continues to read her book.
Along comes a forest policeman in his boat. He pulls up alongside the woman and says, "Good morning Ma'am. What are you doing?"
"Reading a book," she replies, (thinking "Isn't that obvious?")
"You're in a restricted fishing area," he informs her.
"I'm sorry officer, but I'm not fishing, I'm reading."
"Yes, but you have all the equipment. I'll have to take you in and write you up."
"If you do that, I'll have to charge you with sexual assault," says the woman.
"But I haven't even touched you," says the policeman.
"That's true," replied the woman, "But you have all the equipment."
Marek
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Alec Sheldon
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