Sunday snoozings

[mitchy]

The football was good - Stevenage v. Spurs in the 5th round of the FA Cup. I say "good", I mean that in the sense Stevenage forced a replay after holding Spurs to a 0-0 draw. The game itself wasn't anything to write home about, in fact it was pretty dire. But that was partly down to Stevenage refusing to let Spurs get settled and play their kind of football. Replay will be at White Hart Lane and I suspect it will be a very different kettle of fish there.

I've spent most of today reading. I'm on a real Sherlock Holmes kick at the moment and discovered, to my joy, that The Complete Collection Kindle edition was available for the princely sum of 0.77p. "I'll have that!" I cried, clicketty clicking happily. Right now I'm reading "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" and the first story in that collection, "Silver Blaze". That story is not only one of my faves but it gave us one of the best Sherlock Holmes quotes:-

"Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?"
"To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time."
"The dog did nothing in the night-time."
"That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes.

Hee! :)

Comments

[annuala.livejournal.com]

That's always been one of my favourites, too--one of the few times we get to see Holmes outside of London.

[severe-delays.livejournal.com]

If I ever discover you have been paying for out-of-copyright books again I shall hunt you down and give you such a shove.

http://www.gutenberg.org/

[mitchy.livejournal.com]

I have no problems with paying for Sherlock Holmes. I'm not sure where the money goes when it's out of copyright, I know it's a complicated field. But I do not feel ripped off :)

[severe-delays.livejournal.com]

It's something worth paying for, I agree. I'm also working my way through the Sherlock series. For paid-for versions the money goes solely to the people who format it for Kindle. And while many books are worth paying for I'd far rather take a quick look at Project Gutenberg to see if I can have it for free instead. :)