Note – 2025-05-21 05:48
@Ali @[email protected] @essjax @PhilTanner @ak @jds thanks but I've read the book now
Tag: books
Note – 2025-05-10 06:34
@Ali just finishing the Nancy Wake book. What an amazing woman. Such courage and fortitude. Great character, would have loved to have met her.
Note – 2025-03-15 08:21
@[email protected] @vwdasher its the Fediverse Book Club! https://bookwyrm.social/ I read every day so might just be tempted to have a looksee
Note – 2025-03-15 07:48
@vwdasher @[email protected] just sorted my reading for this evening, thanks. Will have to interrupt "The Hand of Fatima" but think it will be worth it for the insights
Note – 2025-03-08 12:34
Enjoying reading "The Hand of Fatima" by Ildefonso Falcones. Follows life of Hernando, a young man of mixed heritage. Mother a Muslim, father a Christian priest. Born after the Morisco rebellion in th...
Note – 2025-02-15 17:25
@danbarber me too! If I had to download 700+ books one by one I'd go crazy as Amazon don't let you download in bulk!
Note – 2025-02-15 09:44
@adamwysokinski thanks Adam. I already have both a PocketBook and a Kobo Reader. Both excellent reading resources and IMO better value than a Kindle without all the "bloat"
Note – 2025-02-15 08:23
More "enshittification". This time from Amazon. Amazon is pulling a Google, killing off popular services. Evidently, I have until 25th February to download my 708 books that I have purchased from them...
Note – 2025-02-10 09:13
@[email protected] yes. They have in company styles and a certain way of doing things. The latest technology will draw maps from GPX files for the guidebook too. When I did my book the maps start...
Note – 2025-02-10 08:19
Whilst in the UK I took the opportunity to attend the Cicerone Press "Authors Day". For those who don't know, Cicerone produce a series of the best to be found anywhere. Worldwide. It was good to chat...
Note – 2025-01-31 16:32
@jds its a fascinating tale of mountain intrigue. I love and thoroughly recommend the book "The Tower" by Kelly Cordes if you haven't already read it.
Note – 2025-01-22 10:04
@hikingdude get well soon Franz. Spend the time well. Like, making plans and reading maps 😀
Note – 2025-01-09 17:31
I've always been interested in navigation. From reading wonderfully detailed paper maps by a winter fireside to micro navigating my way out difficult mountain terrain in a blizzard. Navigation has bee...
Note – 2025-01-09 09:44
@EA7KRC Hi Martin. I note from your handle that you are am Amateur Radio enthusiast of many years. I am just starting out and getting interested in this subject. I have been reading books, manuals etc...
Note – 2024-12-05 14:58
@[email protected] thanks for those kind words. I am racking my brains for the other two but, as you say, there are so many good Cicerone guides out there. I'll take a blind punt on "Via Ferr...
Note – 2024-12-05 10:31
Not into self promotion but this is the 7th anniversary of the publication of my guidebook to Spain's Sierra Nevada. Can't believe how time has flown by. They say everybody has a book in them, I guess...