Get fit, get a cassette

One slight oddity of Mercia is that the only Elsan disposal is right over by the service wharf; handy on one's return from a cruise, but half a mile away from the Grebe and Heron pontoons where we are. As I walked across to the shop to buy some eggs for omelettes for tea, I passed a couple walking along with a cassette on a folding trolley, and thought that one "advantage" of the cassette toilet is that you do keep that bit fitter…

Speaking of which, we're all feeling a bit better, thanks. Elanor managed to get back to work, which was popular as others had had to take the day off courtesy of the unions, and we've managed a totter round the marina followed by restorative drinks and toast in the Willow Tree.

More has been done on the books, and I've been researching the best way to prep the final result for uploading to Kindle Direct Publishing. It will be a while yet, but it's always to good to have some idea of what's involved. It's mostly straightforward, as iWork Pages will export the file as an ePub, which Amazon will convert to Kindle format.

There's a Kindle Previewer you can use to check the outcome of that process, which demonstrated that the main problem is going to be the Table of Contents (toc to its friends and enemies), which the Mobi based formats do differently from everybody else. I've been struggling with it for a while this afternoon, but when the discussion in the relevant online forums started talking about "modifying the manifest with a guide to the toc anchor", I lost the will to live for a time and gave up.

Heigh ho, it would be awful if everything in IT was straightforward, wouldn't it?

NO. 

/no


We've an Ocado delivery booked for tomorrow, and another for 20 December, the last slot I could get before Christmas, and they only released the Christmas slots today.

Elanor and Sally are coming round on Friday to help eat the haggis (well, Elanor will, I doubt if there will be any left for the pooch, and it would be very fattening for her anyway, honest).