My Cybook froze again when I was on holiday, and I had to resort to the pbooks I found in my hotel room: a Hercule Poirot mystery and short stories by Agotha Kristoff (not sure about the spelling). Nothing unforgettable but it was stuff to read. Also gave me some second thoughts about this e-books stuff. A book is something you should always be able to count on, not something that breaks in the middle of chapter.
Anyway, after I got back home I re-read American Gods, and then I tried to switch on the Cybook again, and miraculously it's working. So I can continue reading Hamilton, Proust and Darwin.
But in the meantime I visited the public library and borrowed a book by Michel Onfray on the history of philosophy where he sets about righting the wrongs done to materialist philosophers that he says were treated unjustly by the overwhelmingly idealist mainstream philosophy. I think he's probably right about that but still, the book sounds too much like a personal crusade, so I keep going online to try to get some perspective on what he's saying. Luckily the library is still in summer vacation mode so I don't have to give back the book until 15 September.
So now I'm reading 4 books... I need to finish some of them now
