Loaded another fifty books onto the resurrected Sony ereader, this time a selection from @standardebooks (which is sort of "What if those free Project Gutenberg books were professionally presented?"). As well as the expected mainstream classics, there are loads of titles from authors like Robert Sheckley, Philip K. Dick, Andre Norton, and Manly Wade Wellman, which is great to see.

My sister reads absolutely nothing throughout the year, but then strangely turns into a voracious bookworm for her annual fortnight holiday in Greece, tearing through seven or eight books, which makes an ereader fairly essential. This year she and her husband have been hit by Amazon's decision to disown arbitrarily "old" Kindle readers; because they don't have a computer she couldn't sideload titles or jailbreak the devices (and I doubt she even knew it was an option), so they've bought two new Kindles, just as Amazon intended.

It's a pity she didn't mention it in advance as I could have sorted a better option, but for her an ereader means a Kindle and convenience wins.

So many reasons not to get locked in by Amazon.

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