Getting busy again, and a change of heart about eReaders

Lighting the fire yesterday was great, and cleared that clammy feeling out of the boat, but it got a bit warm later in the day; the weather relented and became milder, and we found ourselves having to open the bow doors to get cool again.

Still feeling lazy after the exertions of the weekend, we decided to go to the Boar’s Head for dinner. What a blow – they weren’t doing food, as they were having a major clean up and sort out. So it was back to the boat and reheat a chilli - what a good job I had something in the freezer.

Never mind, we still had a very peaceful evening, loafing about and reading. I’ve now finished Transition as a Kindle book, reading it on the Mac, but we’ve been so impressed by the Amazon approach to ebooks that we’ve ordered a Kindle apiece as our birthday presents this year. Advantages over the Sony?

• Cheaper books, lots of them, and much easier to find and buy on the Amazon site
• Longer battery life
• More functionality, as it has a keypad, and you can do dictionary lookups and the like.

More on this after they arrive; they’re due in a couple of days time, so Apple must have resolved their supply problems. We’re keeping the Sonys as well for now, but may in the end use calibre to convert all those epub and lrf format books to mobi, the file format readable by the Kindle.

Meantime today, we’ve been busy to make up for yesterday’s sloth (some people have parrots on their boats, we just settle for a slothful existence). We’ve polished up and Incralacked the new brass strips on the doors to hold the shutters, as well as the doorknobs and locking bars, changed over our clothing from summer to winter mode, welcomed La Suvera back from her shake down cruise and taken a load of recycling to the tip.

Not sure what’s happening this evening; we may well have Andrew and Gina in for a drink...