Physically small books

[Mr Pig]

I'm not totally convinced that I'd enjoy reading large amounts of text off a screen.

I wouldn't like it and i'm sure I'm not alone.

Going for a dump is 'me time'!! Me thinks your life is too busy.

 

[ColinJ]

It's 'me time'. My OH likes a foamy bath with candles, I just prefer a dump.

Hopefully, not at the same time!

 

[NickM]

I went mad and bought one of these

Project Gutenberg here I come

 

[Mr Pig]

Hopefully, not at the same time!

I was thinking hopefully not instead of.

 

[Mr Pig]

I went mad and bought one of these

Interesting. Wonder how that will work out. I can't imagine wanting to read a little LCD screen like that for the lengths of time necessary to read a book. But then I can't imagine wanting to sit on the toilet long enough to read one ether! ;0)

 

[ColinJ]

I went mad and bought one of these

Project Gutenberg here I come

So much for your technophobe credentials!

BTW - don't hold your breath waiting for it if you ordered it from Amazon - 'Usually dispatched within 1 to 2 months.'

 

[Cubist]

Just a thought. I'm sure that Readers Digest did some smaller versions of the classics.

Under Condensed Milk Wood by Dylan Tom was a particular favourite.......

 

[NickM]

So much for your technophobe credentials!

BTW - don't hold your breath waiting for it if you ordered it from Amazon - 'Usually dispatched within 1 to 2 months.'

dabs.com - usually dispatched the same day

Technophobe? Moi? Two of us have 4 computers at home, and digital cameras, and GPSes, and so on. It's just that there are certain kinds of technology I don't like - mainly the ones that give people the idea that I might be at their beck and call...

e-mail

telephones

 

[ColinJ]

There are certain kinds of technology I don't like - mainly the ones that give people the idea that I might be at their beck and call...

e-mail

telephones

I feel the same way.

When I had dial-up internet access at home, people at the company I used to work for got really annoyed when they couldn't phone me because I was on the internet so much of the time.

One weekend when we had engineers out on site, they insisted that I take a company mobile phone home with me and wanted me to leave it switched on and at my side for the whole weekend including during the night. I refused to have it switched on between 22:30 and 09:00, and asked for a payment for being 'on standby' the rest of the weekend. They argued that I wasn't doing any work unless I got a call from the engineers and I would get paid for any work that I actually did. I told them fair enough, but in that case they presumably would have no objection to me getting pissed straight after work on Friday evening and remaining that way until Sunday evening? In the end, they reluctantly paid me £20 to stay in and have a quiet weekend catching up on my reading.

I absolutely hated the thought that the phone might go off at any moment and I'd have to drop what I was doing and do what I was told. These days I won't even answer calls on my landline unless I recognise the number and want to speak to whoever it is.

I've had 2 calls from Number Withheld already this morning and I never answer those. Also 3 calls from an unknown mobile. I tell people that if I don't know their number, they have to email it to me first if they want to talk to me, and it needs to show on my Caller Display or I won't pick up.

 

[tyred]

At least I'm not the only one who detests mobile phones. I have nothing against email, I can reply when it suits me.

 

[Greedo]

What a strange request.

If you worked for me and spent time on the bog at work reading you'd be out on your ear. You'd then be able to read normal size books while sitting in the house trying to get a new job!!!!!!!

I want some that I can carry around in a pocket. Classic literature and the like. For reading in the bog at work.

I'm sure there used to be lots available, but can't seem to find any contemporary miniature editions. Does anybody know of any?

 

[Mr Pig]

You'd then be able to read normal size books while sitting in the house trying to get a new job!!!!!!!

Ha ha ha, that's a fair point actually.

 

[NickM]

If you worked for me...

I don't, so I can cheerfully suggest that you go and boil your bum, can't I?

 

[nilling]

Sitting on a work's loo seat - yewk. Back in the day when I worked for an engineering company there was always newspapers left in cubicles.

 

[Greedo]

Think you'll be the one with more than a boil on your bum if you're sitting on a work toilet for hours on end reading!

I don't, so I can cheerfully suggest that you go and boil your bum, can't I?