For those of you out there that don’t realise the difference between e-ink and conventional displays, some chap has put a Kindle and an iPad under a microscope. The results are interesting. By interesting I mean “freaky how e-ink mimics actual ink so well.”
You can see the results here
It didn’t take long then. Hot on the heels of the new £109 wifi Kindle from Amazon, Waterstones have cut the price of the Sony eReader Pocket Edition to a mouthwatering £99. Other retailers have cut the price but none as low as Waterstones. Get one while there is still stock!
This is our August book group read and I’m really flying through it. I am currently reading it on the Kindle app for the iPhone, although I do have a paper copy of it somewhere, I just haven’t been able to locate it.
It’s not the first time I’ve read Dracula, that happened almost 15 years ago when I was a student. Back then I read it in one sitting and could hardly move when I’d finished.
Given its age, its a remarkably accessible book, really easy to read but also packed with genuinely unsettling moments. Dracula climbing lizard like out of his castle window is profoundly unsettling yet there are moments of humour too, as when one of the doctors proclaims, “Chasing an errant swam of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic.”
I’m about two thirds of the way through but expect to be finished in pretty short order, so expect a more in depth write up then.