The Kindle Affair – Update

Literature

In the end, I decided to forgo the stupid Kindle reader altogether and just download the Kindle app onto my laptop.

Which I did, and discovered that I have whole host of books still in my account (left over from my last foray into Kindleville, in the land of Amazonia).

Also, for those who are new to these pages or weren’t paying attention, may I humbly draw your attention to my previously-published works:

Vienna Days – Family Fortunes – Creative License – Prime Target – Signing New England

I am grinding my way ever so slowly through the sequel to Family Fortunes (which I may just creatively entitle “Family Fortunes Part II” because I can’t think of a decent riff on “Family _____”, mostly because the story takes place during the Boer War and WWI).

Also in the hopper is Skeleton Coast, a nearly-completed story of German South-West Africa in 1910, and Budapest Evenings, a story about a plot to assassinate the Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary in 1900.

Annoyingly, all my creativity in writing the above occurs in my pre-waking hours in the morning, but by the time I’ve woken up, showered, made coffee and read my email, most has tragically disappeared from my creaking brain, leaving only scattered remnants behind.

I shall persevere.  Try to contain your excitement.

7 comments

  1. As an aside for anyone else facing the Kindle problem, the Kindle app on the iPad works very nicely. It’s not the cool paperwhite screen, but it’s more than serviceable. I find the iPad is a handier size than the smaller Kindle; easier to hold with a larger screen. For me, the iPad serves for all the smartphone-ish apps that I can’t run on a real smartphone … because I don’t own one. And sure, I know that Apple steals all my behavior, but it’s impossible to watch TV or movies without an IMDB app within reach and a laptop is too cumbersome for that job. At least there’s no Google or Meta stuff on my iPad, so only the Apple and Amazon evil bastards are stealing my data.
    And speaking of Amazon, I went to look up those books you listed and it tells me that I own them! Some of them since 2012. Huh, I plum forgot. I need especially to go back and read Prime Target again.

  2. “all my creativity in writing the above occurs in my pre-waking hours in the morning”
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    Get a small handheld USB voice recorder with simple controls and voice your ideas into it for later reference. Leave it on your night table for easy grabbing, then transfer the contents to the big machine at another time, and convert to text.

  4. I just picked up Prime Target and Vienna Days, looking forward to them on my iPad with the Kindle app.

    1. I have to warn you that my writing style between the two books is very different — not just because of the time elapsed between their respective publishing dates, but because I generally adapt my style to the period of the work. PT is therefore very much in a modern American idiom, and VD is late-19th century Austrian.

      Enjoy.

  5. The thing Kindle did for me was to enable me to read tech books that wouldn’t have been published in paper, because the readership would be too small. However, the prof / researcher was able to publish in electronic form for Kindle, and I was able to buy & read it there.

    My Kindle is a paperwhite, for what it is worth.

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