Posted: 26^th July 2010

Holidays

Well, this is the last regular issue of the Post before we all go into our well-deserved summer break. There'll be our summer specials, of course, and we spared neither cost nor effort to select our favourites from the last 12 months or so. Make sure to tune in each week. Normal service will be resumed on 6 September.

I bought an ebook reader last week, and I blame Dmitri, who had told me that he was about to buy one. I had toyed with the idea for a long while, and when I saw in the newsletter of my online book store that they had relatively cheap ones, and what with Dmitri being on his way to the shop to buy one, I started to search for reviews. What I found was positive and convincing, so I ordered it. It arrived on Saturday and is easy to use - well, what's pre-installed on it, that is. I have yet to suss out how to upload texts from my PC. I only managed to upload one document, and since I can't remember how I did it, I don't know how to repeat that. So if anyone of you is familiar with a Sony Reader PRS 300, please leave me a message.

There was more I meant to write, but I forgot. I was so focussed on the instruction manual of my new toy that my brain is over capacity. Good job it's the summer break now.

Bel

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