A sneak peek…. at my Kindle reading list

Although i am still in love with print books, i am growing increasingly fond of my little Kindle, with its amazing capacity for holding many, many ebooks! I am harbouring a slight addiction to downloading paid for and free ebooks and the fact that it is instantaneous! Here is a little sneak peek at some [...]

London Book Fair 2012- belated bits and pieces

I know it’s been a whole week since the LBF (woah, that flew by!) but i thought i’d share some stuff. Firstly, the amount of leaflets and newspapers which i gained from the LBF: It’s a bit less than last year, mainly because i wasn’t on a mission to pick up as many bits of [...]

A different way to view book recommendations

I found this fascinating website where you can type in a book title and it generates all the book titles linked to it on Amazon in a fun visual way! “Yasiv is a visual recommendation service that helps people to choose the right product from Amazon’s catalog. Being it a book, a perfume or a [...]

More Books I Find At Work

Today’s books! “One Day” by David Nicholls “Detour” by James Siegel “Scandal in the Village” by Rebecca Shaw

Books I Find At Work

As a housekeeper in a hotel, i inevitably come across books in guestrooms! Call me nosy but i like to peek at what people are reading! Lately i’ve seen a few more Kindles than before, so i can’t see what their owners are reading, but when the readers have print books i like to look! [...]

So Many Books, So Little Time

Lately, choosing books to read has become a lot more difficult. Maybe it’s because I want to review every book I read for this blog and so I’m being more careful about my choices, so I seem more cultured and educated. (Although if you look at my reading list for 2011 you will see that [...]

Majority of E-readers bought by over-50s

The Bookseller announced today that there are more over-50s who own E-readers than there are young people owning them. See More over-50s own e-readers than youngsters – The Bookseller. The over-50s are a heavy book-reading group and have always been traditional in buying physical books, but now the digital age seems to be gaining in popularity [...]

Going Digital: Is it all it’s cracked up to be?

Is going digital all its cracked up to be? Like everything else, digital does has its downsides, and although the following are more speculation than anything else, they are things to think about if we carry on down this path. How empty is our world going to be in the future, if we no longer have [...]