Now the boot is on the other foot. I don’t get out much but when I do I tend to take my Kindle with me and it’s a real ice-breaker. ‘Ooh, may I look?’ Next thing I know I have an admiring little crowd around me while I expound its virtues and hot discussions start up about being able to store all those books on it compared with the pleasure of owning ‘real’ books. If a person is reading from a Kindle of course, no one knows what they’re reading, as Knife & Packer showed in the cartoon I used here. A market there for X-ray specs?
What do you call visual earwigging?
Now the boot is on the other foot. I don’t get out much but when I do I tend to take my Kindle with me and it’s a real ice-breaker. ‘Ooh, may I look?’ Next thing I know I have an admiring little crowd around me while I expound its virtues and hot discussions start up about being able to store all those books on it compared with the pleasure of owning ‘real’ books. If a person is reading from a Kindle of course, no one knows what they’re reading, as Knife & Packer showed in the cartoon I used here. A market there for X-ray specs?
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From the Boundary: Jonathan Agnew’s interviews
I really enjoyed this: Jonathan Agnew interviewing Sue Townsend in 2012. On BBC Sounds at the moment, you can hear several of these excellent…
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Treating myself
A couple of days ago I felt the need to read real, new books; I wanted to see a pile waiting for me. So I had an online splurge and got the books…
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You learn something every day
While dealing with emails this morning, I’ve been listening to Alexander Armstrong’s new morning show on Classic FM, which I like very much. He was…
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