I haven't even seen it yet! Foolishly booked theatre tickets months and months ago not knowing this TV highlight would happen. When I tell you my scroll reflex is on FIRE today trying to miss spoilers..

Ahh no, I'm sorry to hear that. Do dig around in the Reddit forums, I imagine someone out there has decided some sort of workaround by now given how absurd the whole thing is.

'fraid so. You can't download the books as a back-up / personal version anymore. If they discontinue a book you lose it (or if they update the text) and you're locked into the universe. Not an issue if you stick with their devices, but it binds you in completely. www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

As partner follows you on BlueSky I should probably concede that he did the legwork in sorting out our kindle library downloads before the deadline, not me...

I was lucky though as I'd downloaded my whole kindle library before it became licenses instead, so could side load that. If you didn't do that and still have a lot of books trapped in kindle the play store ones may be best for you. (Boox was my leading contender)

The ones that run play store would be great but I a) didn't find the price to quality ratio is quite there yet and b) like having everything searchable in one place not between apps.

I've recently switched to a kobo Libra (got the previous generation on eBay because I don't care about colour) following a lot of research and it's great. If you can be bothered to do the legwork they'll price match anyone and it's easy to add other stuff to and link with libby.

I'm very jealous of people who can visualise and discovering it's a thing suddenly made a lot of things make sense. Like why people get mad when a movie does 'look like the book' which I never got. If there was a safe procedure I could do to get a minds eye I would just for reading!

I'm completely aphantastic so it's just... There? If I'm reading slowly then it's like I'm reading out loud in my head but otherwise it's just words. If I try to imagine a character, I can give you a description of a list of words, but largely I get a sort of vibes based feeling in my brain

Is the event tonight recording an episode or a session with you speaking / Q&A?
Interested but husband is worried about being the sniffly audience member on a podcast!

We did the whole journey from Kirkenes to Bergen and that's very common and surprised us too! They have to chase them off before it leaves. Once a day they have also little automated system that cleans the windows as well, which brought us joy. (it really is slow travel to the extreme...)

We so enjoyed watching all the locals who come down to watch the boat come in with their evening hot chocolate (we concluded we'd do the same) and the views are gorgeous. Have fun and I look forward to following along with your journey!

Oh you picked the best of the companies that provide this. We did one of their first sailings. The food is great and the silence of the engines is magical. I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

This is why I have two monitors at work - two live streams at once