smaller format free ebooks

Well, it can't be said that I don't listen. I've reformatted the free ebooks to have a smaller page size so that they are easier to read on small screens. So now there are 2 versions of each ebook on the downloads page.

This probably would not have happened if I had a lovely iphone or similar. The trouble is I hardly use my mobile phone, so can't justify the expense. What I need is a gadget that can be used for surfing the internet, reading books, listening to music - doing everything but phoning. If it could also make coffee I would pay big money for it, but perhaps I'm asking too much.

The Northern spinach

Just added this image of the Northern spinach to the page with the other Geometridae moths. I have no idea where it got the strange common name. I took the photograph last August. I'd seen the moth a few times, but could never get a photograph of it. In the end I caught it and took it home to photograph, then put it back when I next took the dog out.

I couldn't identify it from the photographs I'd taken, and thought no more about ti, but then I was reading a book about woodland insects, and came across its photograph. So at last I could put a name to it.
Me and my kindle

Well I do love my kindle. Especially as I can get loads of old classics for free. I'm discovering books I've never read, but should have, and wonder why I have got to this great age without reading. Just finished The moorland cottage by Elizabeth Gaskell - a great bedtime read. And I have discovered E F Benson - I know probably everyone else has read his/her books, but I just finished Miss Mapp. It was hilarious, so I'll read the rest of them when I get the chance.

There must be thousands like me out there reading classics that they've never read before. Perhaps that is one of the best things about the kindle.