Lumo
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Sunlight, or any light, definitely does this. So as you say the exposed sides discolour sooner. As well as covering them if you could arrange it so that all the books on one shelf were the same height then it might also be possible to rearrange the shelves so that the shelf above is almost touching the tops of the books on the one below, thus almost covering them.
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Slightly different theme, but I found The Crimson Petal and the White by Michael Faber to be a great holiday read. Think and a page turner.
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I've been playing around with the Kindle app on my PC (not having an actual Kindle) and looking at free ebooks.
So far the most amusing one I have found has been "Routledge's Manual of Etiquette [Kindle Edition]" http://www.amazon.co.uk/Routledges-Manual-of-Etiquette-ebook/dp/B000JML9YA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=A3TVV12T0I6NSM&qid=1309858608&sr=1-1
I'm not sure of the exact year of original publication but I guess it is from the Victorian era sometime. From reading and watching period dramas I knew that's how people lived in those days, but actually reading a guide of how to live somehow makes the crazy class divisions and contrast between luxury of few and poorness of the rest real in a way that a fiction book doesn't.
Has anyone come across any other amusing old ebooks?
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I've just remembered I read Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier this year too, and that would also be high up my list :-)
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Thinking again, although I am not quite finished it yet, I would also put The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber somewhere high on my list of favourite books I've read this year.
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For me it would have to be Travels with my Aunt - Graham Greene
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Interesting about a US version possibly having adverts, I had not heard of that, however it sounds like it might be annoying. I think I will wait and look out on eBay and cash converters, as suggested. I also checked out the Waterstones one and it doesn't seems as good as the Kindle ;-)
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I read all of these about 10 years ago and thought they were fantastic, great humour/wit and enjoyable to read, imo anyway, so I would recommend them :-)
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Also, won't sales of very cheap classics on the kindle skew the figures a bit? Kindle users seem to stock up a library of classics and other cheap e-books which they might not buy in a book shop in paper form as even cheap classics cost a lot more in paperback than ebook, however they also might not read all these anytime soon on the Kindle. So people stocking up a library will increase the Kindle books sales but won't be a good comparison to shop sales in terms of what is actually read. The amount of books read on Kindle versus on paper would be interesting, but much harder to find out.
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The Kindle has been the same price for a while now, with talk of a new version coming out this year, do people predict that:
- The new one will be more expensive than £111 and around the time of release the current one will get cheaper?
- The new one will replace the current one, and be priced at a similar £111?
I really want one, but it's a bit too expensive for me, not sure if I should just bite the bullet and buy one, or wait and see what happens when the new one comes out (perhaps ebay will be flooded with people offloading their 'old' ones when they replace them with the new one).
What other thoughts do people have? Might a competing eink system be released soon?
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Many thanks for all your replies and useful tips. I was also a bit concerned about the weight of something clipped onto a paperback. I'll look through the suggestions again and let you know how I get on. :-)
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There seem to be many different kinds of battery powered LED lights that clip onto a book, such as this one:
Does anyone here use a light like this? Any recommendations on features to look out for? Are they just a gimmick or do they really work?
Thanks :-)
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I always have breakfast (day feels wrong without it - I have no energy and become grumpy).
Normally I have porridge, cereal or toast with an apple or banana afterwards. These are all quite quite quick to make. I always have a coffee with it and normally listen to the radio news while eating.
The best breakfast I have had in the last year or so was in Spain. "Tostata con tomate" with a coffee, sitting at a cafe by a marina in the early morning sun :-)
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I pick up whatever grabs my eye or looks interesting. Not very systematic. Normally it is 'old' looking ones.
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I just read some pretty exciting news: Harvard University Press has published an uncensored version of The Picture of Dorian Gray as Oscar Wilde originally wrote it. Yay! This is definitely going on the wish list.
I looked it up on the Book Depository's website and there's a lovely annotated, illustrated hardcover edition.That's very interesting. Do you know which themes or bits were censored?
EDIT. Sorry didn't realise you had linked to the news article and have now read it :-)
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Have you read Fatherland by Robert Harris? It's a 'what if the Nazi's had won' story. Quite well written, but it has been a few years since I read it.
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I generally don't. Five or so years ago I used to subscribe to a computing ones, now I might get a classical music one or if another grabs my eye in the shop I will buy it, but nothing regular. Do you read magazines?
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Just to add some confusion, BBC radio news said that one day she would become Queen...
I thought Prince Philip never became king because the female in the royal family married a male who then cannot become king as she is the 'real' line in the family, where as the other way around, when the male of the royal family marries a female, she does become princess then queen at the same time as the male becomes king. However I don't know where I learnt that and it might be incorrect.
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Based on all this I am definitely going to look out for The Brothers Karamazov :-)
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How did "Notes from Underground" compare to "Crime and Punishment"? I've thought about reading it but haven't quite bought it yet.
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A man walked into a bar - ouch!
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I read Crime and Punishment last year and thought it was excellent. I found it surprisingly easy to read and very good. However, it wasn't quite as expected and I thought the themes wandered around a bit, nonetheless it was still a very enjoyable and a great novel.
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Fifty more pages read and I have decided to give up. Same themes come up again and again with no explanation of them for those of us who are not already familiar with all of them. I was looking forward to this book but it is one of the very few that are going back on the bookshelf with little intention of coming back to finish it.
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I agree as well. Find some fiction that takes your interest and if you find yourself flying through the pages of that then branch out from there.
Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
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I read Rebecca this year and really enjoyed it, it also became one of my favourite books, so I am interested to read more by Daphne du Maurier and will put Jamaica Inn on my wishlist :-)