But that's what libraries are for too, so you're not buying them. I don't buy huge amounts of books, only mainly ones for study at the moment. Like I said, the only way I'd get on with a Kindle at the moment is if the books were pretty much free. Then again, the books I like to read aren't in the best sellers list anyway so I doubt they'd be costing much. Then again, I saw one of the study books I've got on Amazon had a Kindle version, and it was only a few £s cheaper :noway: Most of the wood comes from pine forests anyway, which are managed forests. However, I also don't really agree with them seeing as they're taking up space where native species could go.

Anyway, rant over :happy:

I hope you're not driving on this commute... :laugh:

I hope you're not driving on this commute... :laugh:

hahaha nope, 2 mid-length train journeys and quite a long walk (which is good really, some forced exercise even if I don't feel like it). Lately I've had a bit too much on my mind though and finding I can't focus on my reading which makes me a bit sad

Oh poor you.. there was times when I was reading "Advanced Calculus" so feel for you

Advanced Calculus was one of my favourites :blushing: :blushing: :blushing:

I am on a wierd jag with my reading starting with aron ralston 127 hours now I'm on "into the wild" by John can't remember last name and next I'm going to see if I can get touching the void by Joe Simpson. Last month it was a classics fest and next I think I might fancy some post modernist Virginia Woolf and dh Lawrence.


Oh and definitely a kindle fan. Loved paper but trying to prop up a hardback in the bath or lying on a beach makes having the kindle a dream some times I just lie on my side and prop it up in the case hands free reading!

Oh and definitely a kindle fan. Loved paper but trying to prop up a hardback in the bath or lying on a beach makes having the kindle a dream some times I just lie on my side and prop it up in the case hands free reading!

Totally agree! Even without a case it's easily one-handed which is useful when you have to stand on a train - no need to wait until the stops to change the page!!

Currently on Private Games - James Patterson, and 13 Things That Don't Make Sense - popular science book.

Before those was - I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan - Steve Coogan/Alan Partridge

On a hot summer's day in 1931, three five-year-olds meet on a dusty street in a small Midwestern town, beginning a friendship that will last all their lives. Kathryn, the oldest in an ever-expanding family, is bright and earnest, and thinks she wants to become a nurse. Starling is an only child with an absent father. He doesn't yet know that he is of mixed race-he doesn't even know what that means-all he knows is that when he grows up he will be a star. Luke doesn't know what he wants, except for his older brother not to be dead. Together they experience the joys and pains of childhood, although the anxieties of puberty and awakening sexuality nearly destroy their three-way friendship forever. Reaching adulthood after World War II, they follow their dreams to New York City, where they discover that not even Manhattan is free of racism and prejudice.Through the years of their ever-entwined adult lives some dreams are realized while others grow dim, but one constant remains: their bond of friendship. At the book's end, some seventy years after it began, only one of them remains to tell the story of their lives, and of what happened...in the meantime.

I'm reading a book called Run Fat *****, Run by Ruth Field.

It is a fantastic, no nonsense and humorous approach to getting your bottom off the sofa and out in the fresh air.

I highly recommend this for anyone who is thinking about starting running or anyone who wants to get back into it.

Not for the sensitive but definitely for the realist.

Read! Enjoy! Run! :-)