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[vervet_monkey]

Right, home a week and all caught up fandom wise. Not so much the rest of my life, but I will be by the time I leave again. Maybe.

Tanzania was amazing, and where I want to live. It is so beautiful and (at least in the rural parts) incredibly friendly. I deliberately avoided the North with its tourists though, so I cant talk for the whole country. I

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Where do I start? Sherlock? <3!
I may have been very kind of disappointed that the pool scene did not end with Sherlock and John having to dive into the pool to survive some kind of explosion. I was imagining wet Sherlock and John. But I'll forgive them because they made up for it.
I need to rewatch Reichenbach Falls properly (my plan for after my essay) because I watched it with a bunch of chemists/physicists/law/med students who have a nasty habit of giggling and pointing out the errors. Slightly distracting.But devastating and amazing regardless.

Doctor Who I have to admit I didn't love quite as much as Sherlock. I still liked it but I've never been a huge fan of the River Song storyline so... oh well.

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(LJ is being mean and saying I wrote too much, so you're getting several comments)
Kindles. I have opinions! Many of them!
I now proudly own a Kindle.

But I didn't want one, definitely definitely not. I love books. Books are special. Books are not the same as a screen. Just looking at a book can tell you how many times its been read and how well looked after its been and ... yeah. Yay books.
And then one day around October or November I looked at the small rainforests worth of journal articles I had just printed out along with the six books I was lugging around in and wondered if this whole thing might not be a little bit insane

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Price I think is still an issue. Although £89 is a long way down from where they used to be, and I'm assuming they will continue to become more affordable. The internet thing is tricky. The majority of kids and young adults can use the internet, but not everyone can afford access to the internet. The Kindle Keyboard had 3G to cater for that problem. The new Kindle doesn't. Finding public wi-fi is not impossible but it's a hassle that you don't need. Also a minority of people don't have the skills to access this technology either. That's the biggest hurdle because some of them will be massive book readers simply because they don't spend their time on the internet and presumably therefore have a little more time spare than those of us who do waste our evenings on it

[vervet_monkey]

I love you a little bit for that!

Yeah, I'm getting all over excited with finding all the free/cheap books, lots of Conan Doyle, lots of classics (which I only discovered I actually enjoy having tried to read them when I was too young because of the need for audio books to fill time in Tanzania). Have also downloaded the first Hunger Games book and Game of Thrones is next on my list.

Given the obsessive organisation of my bookshelf I think Kindle organising will quickly become a problem...