I haven’t lost it lost it; the Kindle is still sitting on the dining table, ready for the day. No, what’s happened is my husband has taken it over. I bought the Kindle last November, one of the lucky ones to get the previous generation model Amazon had on deep discount for Black Friday. My thought was to use it as my secondary device, something to keep...

According to USA Today digital books outsold print the week after Christmas, the first time this has happened. Now, that surge is likely because people were going nuts with their new Kindles, Nooks, iPads, etc., but it’s not going to be the last. Ten years ago, I had no interest in eBooks; ereaders were not common place and most of the reading was done on the...

My internet was out last night, along with the internet of a good part of Southern California. After beating my head against the wall and finally managing to get an answer via my iPad, which is a 3G model, I settled down for a quiet evening without instant communication with the outside world. Maybe I should do this more often. I watched some DVDs, knit on my...

I’m writing this on a computer I didn’t intend to buy. Earlier this year, the money I had originally intended to use to replace my laptop (which was going out of Apple Care), ended up going to do some work on the house that needed to be done. Life happened, we had the family crisis this summer and then I ended up getting sick for much of September and...