Hair growing success story & where's the fun in an e-book?.

Finally a way to make the news headlines that is achievable: 'Pensioner grows 5'7" of hair.' Now I could DO that. My news link to this item has a video clip too. It promises to be exciting.

Certainly not much else remarkable is happening. I am enjoying my morning drives up into the tree line. The shop did OK yesterday, which sort of made up for the phone calls from bookfair-goers ringing to find out how I am and tell me about their successful weekend of selling. It was really nice to hear from them but did rather rub salt into the wound.

Never mind. I am feeling up-beat and optimistic for no especially soundly founded reason. I just am.

A slightly worried post about e-books on the amazombie sellers board had me unmoved but moved to think of all the experiences we will miss if e-books take over the world. Here are a few:

* Dropping the book in the bath and being able to dry it off on the radiator.
* Losing a £10 note (like the one which I once used as a bookmark in the days I had spares.)
* Finding old postcards someone else has used as a bookmark. (I've never found the £10 yet.)
* Finding the dog/baby/hamster has chewed the last couple of pages and being left in suspense.
* Losing it on a train and not really caring.
* Leaving it in a cafe " " " "
* Lending it to a friend who forgets to give it back causing a life-long unspoken grudge.
* Lending it to a friend who claims to have given it back causing a life-long feud.
* Being able to go into a secondhand bookshop and ask for 'the book with a red cover I used to love when I was a child.'
* Having the shopkeeper find the book with a red cover I used to love as a child.
* Having a warmer living room because one wall is lined with books.
* Being able to read in one of those impossibly cold places where no technology works. (Or is it just that kettles won't boil at high altitudes... I'm reaching a bit here..')
* Flinging it across the room because it is impossible to understand.
* Scribbling notes in the margin.
* Writing silly gift inscriptions to annoy future Amazon sellers.
* Writing shopping lists or the first chapter of my next novel on the endpapers.
etc. etc.

In an article about e-books this futuristic thought was raised:

'It is perfectly conceivable that in the future we could have something that looks like a book, feels like a book, reads like a book and with separate paper-thin pages like a book, but which uses e-ink instead of the normal kind.'

It sounds like the vegetarian option that's made to look like the meat option! What's the point?