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Hi, Doglet!
Only just come in...yes, thank you, I did receive email from you. In fact I got two emails - one sent at 1.43 am and one at 8.20 this morning. So your laptop is working to some extent anyway!
Re your comment about some authors only now writing in kindle format... I didn't know that. What a pity though - I don't have a kindle and cannot see my doing do, as I enjoy the 'feel' of having a (proper) book in my hands!

Morning, Rusty!
it's a good job we are good friends or you might just have started World War III with 'nosey'!!! I think the word you were groping for is friendly....or interested....????
Only joking!
I love the concept of your performing martial arts to beat the intruders from your door! Give Fang a pat from me!
I'm leaving my two rottweilers, Invincible and Conqueror, in charge whilst I'm out today....Invincible has already eaten a "ham- burglar" for breakfast.....!
Dull, coolish day here so far... no rain forecast though.
Hotmail is now working fine on the Hudl!
What made you desert Firefox for a return to Google Chrome? I thought you really liked it?

Jazzy, love the policeman, psychiatrist and psychologist "following " you!

Morning everyone,


Elle, I am just the same regarding books - like the feel AND the smell of an old book - I rarely dust my many books so that they have this wonderful smell of dusty old paper, that particular smell you get in a old second-hand book-shop.

Now, I shall show my ignorance and ask 'what exactly is face book?'

To me, one is lucky if one needs more than one hand to count True Friends - that is a real treasure, to be well protected and guarded.

(Thought of the day? What was the name of the elderly man who spoke for 15/20mns or so on Radio 4 every morning?)

I still read proper books but having one hand in plaster for months I couldnt hold a real book so the Kindle was a life saver,and it was very useful when waiting at the hospital for hours.I think it is publishers who are making authors us kindle editions I had an interesting chat with someone who's first book was a winner but the publishers told him they would not print his next novel so he is only ebook nowHave just finished the Tite street book and enjoyed it very much.I am not a fan of social media blogs etc

Morning, Pigale!
Jazzgirl is best equipped to tell you about Facebook as she is on it!
It's a social media network where folk seem happy to tell the world all their private details - like what they are wearing today and what they ate for breakfast... whether they are still with their current boy/ girl friend/ husband/ wife or whether r they are nwo 'available ' again... they show photos of anything and anybody - and often tell the 'world' things before they even tell their families!!!!
Remember the incident of my grandson "driving'' the car........ and the ructions the Facebook posting caused before my daughter told us and her sister...?
Actually, I believe that you can limit access to your personal details to "Friends" and that people can ask to be become a "friend! - you can accept or decline that request
Jazzgirl will correct me if I have any of this wrong!

Elle
You have just explained all the bad things about facebook and I agree with those.
I, however, have posted only a couple of things this year and they were two special wildlife photos I had taken of red deer. That is all. My USA cousin posts his jazz recordings which I love to watch. If one doesn't set one's profile correctly, you are liable to receive loads of rubbish. One cousin posts link after link every day which I just don't permit into my newsfeed. I think the adults are just as bad, or worse than the teenagers!

People on Facebook used to say "Just packing for our fortnight in Spain"- you see a lot less of that now!
I don't have a kindle, either, but they are great for people with poor eyesight as the text can be hugely magnified.
It's quite expensive to self-publish a book in a good quality format (one person told me £7000 - "But I get 60 free copies"!!!), so kindling may be the only way to go.
I have published a book in both formats and have sold many more kindle editions. But it had to be in hard copy as well to pass down (nothing like £7k though) - sad for it only to be in digital format, I think.
It's like photos; if we don't get them printed will anyone be able to see them in 25 years?

I think you are perhaps in the minority of how the site is used, tho, Jazzy? You are using it 'sensibly ' and your own personal advantage - but I don't think that is how most folk use it.

Well, if that's all it has got to offer, I don't think I want to join; I am quite happy with the friendly exchanges we have on this Forum, I feel we get to know each other quite well and have at least one thing in common : Xwords.
I also keep in touch with my long-life friends either by mail or skype, or see them for those who live near - that is quite enough for me.

~Re the old boy I referred to for 'tho0ught of the day', was he not Alister something? Very interesting man, very articulate - probably 10 years ago or so but he was already elderly then.