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Friday 4 August 2017

Waugh

It occurred to me that I haven't read "Scoop", "Decline and fall" or any of the other books by Evelyn Waugh, so I went to Amazon, where I found that I culd buy them for £9.99 each, which seemed to me to be excessive. And I'd hoped that there would be a "Collected works", but that was £48 and didn't have his best works.

Remember, these are books written 70 or 80 years ago. And with that fact, I thought, hmm, out of copyright. So I went to the Gutenburg web site, no luck, and then to the Internet Archive, and struck gold, via the Digital Library of India. I downloaded half a dozen pdfs, onto my old iPad (version 1) into the Kindle app.

And then I thought, battery life. Because this iPad is so old, the battery life is gornisht. So I went onto Ebay and bought another battery-to-USB converter. I already have the batteries, so that's £0.99.

Result!

6 comments:

  1. Thank You Dr Solly - Hadn't thought about Decline and Fall since schooldays - I'll have to revisit !

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  2. I just finished Decline and Fall, and Scoop. I thought Scoop was much better, and although it's 80 years old, it's still relevant.

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    1. Must be nice to make the time....I'm running around among numerous projects, just like the heady days of the IBMPCUG when I was a mere whipper snapper

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  3. We were all whipper snappers then!

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    1. I will always remember the talk given by a very excitable gentlemen demonstrating Procomm and how to dial up the IBMPCUG BBS - any clue who that was ?

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  4. I remember when someone showed me Procomm, and it was so much better than PC Talk and I was telling people about it, so that might well have been me.

    We had a lot of fun in the early days of the IBM PC!

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