This has been a somewhat stressful day - my C-Nook - my e-book - has been coming apart for a while now, and this morning the tip of the cable - which goes into the base to charge it - finally disintegrated. Apart from the way this one was made, I think they are one of the best inventions on the planet, they slip into a handbag, take up hardly any space, but mine had 145 books on it, and I never went anywhere without it, so it had to be replaced.
They are sold by the bookseller Barnes & Noble, and I always went to their branch in Norman, and it used to be such a pleasant trip - I'd take the scenic route, bowling along Highway 9, a very straight forward journey and easy to find when I got to Norman - from Hwy 9 I took a right, then a left turn, and I was there, but that has so drastically changed, it is almost unbelievable. A combination of massive road works and development made it very difficult to find, and I was going round and round in circles, and believe it or not, I had a GPS which was supposed to be telling me the way, but took me all round the houses before it finally got me there.
Anyway, I've got a new C-Nook which doesn't have the potential to come apart, so they obviously realised there was a serious design fault there, and it is charging up as I type. And it was a lot easier coming back because I got straight on to the interstate, but it wasn't the pleasant, scenic journey of Highway 9.
I can't possibly go there again so I've been looking up their store in Tulsa, but that's quite a long way (although not 24 hours). Actually though I doubt that I'll need to go, now I've got the new C-Nook all the books can be downloaded online. And the 145 were all downloaded to the new one.
So that has been my day, I set off in the morning when I was ready, and got home at 4.30, and have been recovering ever since.
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