thanks everyone, thanks for the recommendations forum link, gonna sit down with a cup of tea and wade through it later and see if I can find something good to read.
WT Sharpe> Good ol' windows 3.1, back then I thought 8meg was an enormous ammount of ram, who'd have thought my mobile would have more power behind it than my first pc!
Desertgrandma> unfortunatly the local library doesnt have ebooks at the minute, i think support for that is a bit slow in the UK which is sad, as its obviously the future, dont get me wrong I still love print, but its much more convenient on a ereader.
neil> maybe we are related, who knows

hughes is a common name in wales
thanks for the welcome everyone!