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Old 01-20-2018, 12:07 PM   #89
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The car discussion reminded me that once I read a book where a character was driving a new Saturn but the book was published several years after Saturns stopped being made.

Speaking of technology, authors don't seem to know about the change in over-the-air TV from analog to digital that happened in 2009 (I know because I had to get a converter box for my old TV). But authors wanting to make a point about how poor a character is or what a dump they are living in will say the character has an ancient TV with rabbit ears with no mention of it having a converter box, which is the only way such a TV could be used now.

Something I really hate in books - when the main character telling the story first-person keeps saying things like "if only I had known then how it would turn out I wouldn't have done it." Please, just tell us what you did and let us read on to find out if it turned out well or not! One cozy mystery I tried to read contained so many of these that I skipped to the end to find out whodunit and didn't try to read any more of the series.
Not an ancient TV but I can tell you the cheap digital antennas don't work as advertised.
Oh and we do have an aerial antenna for our camper.
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