Tag: kindle

  • Why I won’t be buying any more technical books on my Kindle

    When the Kindle first came on the market I breathed a huge sigh of relief. I, like many of you no doubt, have an attic heaving with technical tomes, many only half read, mostly out of date. I imagined the incredible lightness of being able to walk…

  • Bookshelf blues

    My bookshelves filled up years ago, but there’s no end to my acquisition of books. There’s a steady flow of technical books to the attic, where they gather dust and are never thought of again. Fiction, on the other hand, gets lent out almost as qu…