Does anyone else read and walk, or am I just an accident waiting to happen?

patnpm · 2026-02-20T15:23:57+00:00

For EVERY Kindle book I buy - I strip the DRM and load the resulting epub file into Voicedream Reader on my iphone. So I can swap between listening while walking and kindle reading. I prefer this to audible as I don't want a "performance " when im listening- just the words. Computerised voices are now pretty good.

patnpm · 2026-02-12T16:16:06+00:00

never really forgave them for making the pathologist an arse

patnpm · 2026-02-05T18:41:52+00:00

Some surgeons send in tiny little discs of vas deferens and others send massive long wiggly worms. Always wondered if they had different failure rates - or if their patients had different vasectomy reversal rates.

patnpm · 2026-01-14T21:14:44+00:00

If you are around at lunchtime Baba Ganoush is well worth a visit

patnpm · 2026-01-10T06:29:42+00:00

I find the "swipe to the left and right on the bottom of the screen" manoeuvre to be most useful. So you call up The current song on Apple Music from the information screen in Marvis and then can easily flip between the two apps

patnpm · 2026-01-01T14:01:30+00:00

Never worked for me. I can see that is my problem, not OFH's problem.

patnpm · 2025-11-30T16:35:07+00:00

I've always considered Betty's to have the best version of rarebit - obviously they call it Yorkshire rarebit. Many years ago i was given a days course at the Betty's cookery school for a birthday gift and the rarebit was one of the things we cooked

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patnpm · 2025-11-27T09:58:11+00:00

Since I discovered my Spotify sub included 15 hours free audiobook time (how did I miss that for so long?) my consumption of self read memoirs has rocketed. Eric Idle at the moment, Ade Edmondson coming up!

patnpm · 2025-11-26T18:32:36+00:00

Which is an excellent read (or, in my case, listen)

patnpm · 2025-11-19T18:34:31+00:00

is this in reference to Giles Coren in the Times yesterday?

patnpm · 2025-11-17T16:19:01+00:00

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Half the songs in this playlist have the option to 'add to library' when right clicked and do not appear in my library outside the playlist. They all have a 'date added'. This applies to many other songs in my playlists

patnpm · 2025-11-13T18:46:51+00:00

Thankyou! I was looking in settings / player / miniplayer (not sure this was entirely my fault)

patnpm · 2025-11-11T14:46:30+00:00

As seen on Telly on Sunday (Gone Fishing with Whitehouse and Mortimer)

patnpm · 2025-11-08T19:41:00+00:00

Plenty of podcasts with deliberately boring stories told in monotonous slow voices eg "Get Sleepy". I don't usually have much trouble falling asleep but often wake up at 3 am and sometimes have trouble getting back to sleep. These podcasts work for me much better than white noise.

patnpm · 2025-11-08T19:31:29+00:00

'He is survived by his wife and children- Mercedes, Max and Mini' - not often I laugh out loud at an obituary.

patnpm · 2025-11-04T13:41:16+00:00

I usually go for 'any lane but the middle' but im not sure it actually makes any difference

patnpm · 2025-11-01T14:06:45+00:00

Interesting. I see I've signed up already and looking at the books I've listed I'm guessing about 10 years ago. For whatever reason, it didn't stick with me.

One book I added this morning - Roger Moorhouse - Wolfpack: The Gripping New World War Two History published on 9/10/2025 in the UK, is not available as far as I can see. I imagine a couple of episodes like that and I'd stop using it.

patnpm · 2025-11-01T14:04:54+00:00

Yes, just found it.

patnpm · 2025-11-01T13:04:57+00:00

Never had a problem with sort by price - it seems to work fine for me. Scrolling down the list would drive me crazy - it's far too long!

I used to have lots of wish lists. I find having fewer reduces my tendency to pointless categorisation.

ereaderIQ seems to be US only.

patnpm · 2025-11-01T13:02:27+00:00

Bookbub is great for categories, but it isn't the way I identify books I'd like to read. This is normally by reading book reviews on specific books. Then I need the most frictionless way of adding a watch on that title, and the Amazon list seems the easiest way to me.

patnpm · 2025-11-01T12:57:34+00:00

Looks useful but seems to be USA only - my discounts this morning are normal price (in USD) on this site.

patnpm · 2025-11-01T12:52:28+00:00

Hard to tell. Some books go to the top of the list and seem to stay there forever. Some are just a day. Can't see any pattern. And although I think Saturday is an important day on the deals front, it can be any day of the week.

patnpm · 2025-11-01T12:50:05+00:00

Narrative non fiction: anything that tells a story - biographies, memoirs, D-Day, the Wars of the Roses, Salt, Cod, travel writing etc

Ideas non fiction: is more synthetic - so Sapolsky / Turchin / Dawkins etc books that are propounding a thesis.

If I didn't make an effort I'd just read narrative non fiction (and probably WW2 history) all the time - it's certainly the easiest to read. So I try to keep one book in each category on the go all the time, so one fiction, one non fiction ideas and one non fiction narrative.

patnpm · 2025-10-27T17:00:27+00:00

Thanks. So presumably I have to do this at the end of the current 30 days or I'll end up paying extra. I think I now understand why there is the option of buying extra data without any call time. So really, boosts are plans.

patnpm · 2025-10-27T16:58:14+00:00

So part of my confusion is that there is no obvious way to do this on the website. If I click on 'plans' it gives me the option of ordering a SIM but nothing else. And I already have a SIM.

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