Tag: reading
An interesting short story. I haven’t read much of Murakami but what I have read has been okay. This was a short and fun read, a bit odd too. I did squirm at the end reading about the bugs especially being tucked up in bed myself.
The illustrations and design of the book are excellent though makes a little tricky reading on the Colorsoft Kindle. It does showcase the abilities of coloured e-ink though. See Kindle screenshot below.
What a beautiful and rich book and reading experience. This is a readers book.
Essentially this is a book that covers Penguin Classics books. From the figures behind the books inceptions and the editors and translators. The book is split into sections like Ancient Greece, Rome, Republic Rome, Middle Ages, Renaissance etc up to World War 1. It features fiction, poetry, non-fiction, sagas. Each author featured has a short biography where one exists along with books they have printed as part of Penguin Classics. Each book shows covers of the editions of the books along with a paragraph long commentary/synopsis.
It really is an interesting and insightful read, I have bookmarked many books through my reading of this one, lots of new to me books and authors.
Another interesting tidbit is the breakdown and meaning behind the ISBN of books, something that is overlooked can be so fascination such as the 978 or 979 portion is a country code for books or Bookland as its known in the industry.
I enjoyed this book, I did hope it would be more Soccer Saturday focused snd more storeis from the show and a peek behind the curtain.
Enjoyable read though and an honest one too with Jeff’s opening up on family matters like his daughters battle with eating disorders.
A man who is very much part of my adolescence and Saturdays are not the same without Soccer Saturday in it’s heyday with Paul Merson, Phil Thompson, Charlie Nicholas and Matt le Tissier. The spark is missing. Give me the legends anyday over the likes of Clinton Morrison and Tim Sherwood.
A good read but could have been great.
I feel this year is going to be a slow reading year this year and being a compulsive book buyer I am always acquiring more than I read so I was doing some thinking about how to explore my library and get the most from it. I am a dual media reader having both digital (Kindle and audiobook) and phyiscal copies of books. The audiobook library is fairly easy to nagivate, as is the physical, but the digital library is a big pain to navigate through 6000 + (shocked me too!) books. You never remember every book you buy and most get lost in the shuffle.
I had a brainwave! I will make a spreadsheet of my library and from that use a random number generator to help choose my next read. To my surprise there is no quick and easy way to export your Kindle library. So for a few hours I had to scroll the entire library until it loaded every book and then select all, copy & paste. Unintuitively it pastes as a single column and for example the titles were odd cells and the authors even. So after a chat with AI (one of the few times I have used AI with success). I discovered how to create smart filters and be able to select the data and copy and paste them to be how i wanted it. To my surprise it worked.
I am happy with it and I have decided to colour co-ordinate my library with default black being purchased books, blue being docs (mostly books purchased elsewhere online) and red being manga.
I have tried it a few times and as you can see from my notes it has thrown up an interesting mix of books. Many I have forgotten about and not looked at since I purchased them. It will be fun to see what books it throws up when I decide to use it.
I will try to keep my library updated going forwards, it will only be laziness that prevents me.
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