How THHGTTG changed my life

Now stay with me as i tell this tale. I am not going to start at the beginning. I will get there in the end. so. Like i said. Bare with me.

I want an E-book reader. I want one really bad. At the moment i am looking at all the models on the market so that i can pick the one i am most comfortable with. I need to like the look and feel. I need to like the LONG battery life. I need to make sure it can read all the formats that i want to download. I don’t think it will be one of the new ipads (i am still snickering about the name) but when they launched it a little while ago that is when i got the burning desire to have one. really badly.

One of my favourite books is The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams). Referred to from now on as THHGTTG. I adore it. I like the story and well, every morsel of it.

My favourite quote. I have no idea why it just is:

Ford: It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.
Arthur: What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?
Ford: You ask a glass of water.

Yes i do. Now that i come to think about it. It is that fact that the first time i read it i just didn’t get it. The second reading i did. It was when i realised that some books are to be read over and over. They can give you something different to think about every time. They become friends for life.

I am a bit of a fan – i even own a copy of the original radio series. On vinyl. Oh Yeah Baby.
A friend (OK, Mark *sigh* you know it was you) and i were having a discussion about e-books and THHGTTG the other afternoon: what makes you feel that something about the HHGTTG being true now. I think it is having an e-book reader and wiki. I mean the entire wiki “universe” that you periodically update. With entries that are “wildly inaccurate”. Mark thinks this is terrible analogy because the guide had correspondents who were employed and trained rather than being able to be updated by anyone at all. I Still think i have the valid position because some how the wiki vibe or being personal, accurate to a point and about anything and everything (with links) is what it is all about.

So that is my story. Anyway i really want an e-book reader. Gonna wait until i get just the right one to suite me. I still love books. Don’t get me wrong it is not about that at all. It is about something from my childhood coming into being. Something i never thought possible. Perhaps the second. My cell phone (a pink flip phone) IS like a comms device from early StarTrek. That is the reason i bought it and love it and won’t get a new one *grin*.

I am really going to need a little cover for the new e-book reader. I want it to say “Don’t Panic”. Yes. I am that sad.


PS. my fav. study region made it into the news. again. i bet it just confused a lot of people but i don't care: http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=37551