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In which I take another tentative step into the 21st century
Gladys Mitchell was indeed prolific, but my library only has 2/3 of her output, and only half of that circulates. As I suspect I'm incapable of reading a book in one day at the Reference Library, or at least very unwilling to do same, I checked amazon. And amazon has a plethora of her works, most of them e-books. A few paperbacks starting at $25+ once taxes and delivery are factored in.
Now, amazon has kindles on sale for about a hundred once taxes etc, but. But. Six by four inches? No, I can't read on that. Go up a few hundred dollars and I can have a whole seven inches. No, and especially not with amazon trying to push kindle unlimited or amazon prime on me ie hook them for a month and count on them forgetting to cancel. With my Swiss cheese brain I might well do that, though to be fair to me, any time amazon has thrust prime upon me, I've always cancelled it within days.
There's a kindle app for androids that no one has anything good to say about. Can't buy books through the app. Nor do I want to. Touch the screen by accident and the book skips to the end, or goes back to where you last left off, or even to the beginning. How annoying. But it's free. And the ebooks go for pennies, or at least half the price of a latte. Um, well, and that is why I now have a kindle app on my tablet. Go me.
Now, amazon has kindles on sale for about a hundred once taxes etc, but. But. Six by four inches? No, I can't read on that. Go up a few hundred dollars and I can have a whole seven inches. No, and especially not with amazon trying to push kindle unlimited or amazon prime on me ie hook them for a month and count on them forgetting to cancel. With my Swiss cheese brain I might well do that, though to be fair to me, any time amazon has thrust prime upon me, I've always cancelled it within days.
There's a kindle app for androids that no one has anything good to say about. Can't buy books through the app. Nor do I want to. Touch the screen by accident and the book skips to the end, or goes back to where you last left off, or even to the beginning. How annoying. But it's free. And the ebooks go for pennies, or at least half the price of a latte. Um, well, and that is why I now have a kindle app on my tablet. Go me.
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Certainly, and thanks for the offer. Once I'm done with the library and amazon's $1.50 offerings I'm sure there will still be leftovers.
I'm keeping a list and writing down whodunit because in a matter of days I can forget not only that I've read the book but anything about the plot as well. 'There are nuns in The Whispering Knights? I don't remember no nuns!'
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Plots do tend to overlap in my memory, so what I think happens in one book actually occurred in another book I was reading shortly thereafter. But the temporal gestalt was the same, and so I keep looking for a scene that isn't there and getting freaked by the missing text.
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