{"id":831,"date":"2004-09-15T19:33:26","date_gmt":"2004-09-15T19:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2004\/09\/black_ice\/"},"modified":"2004-09-15T19:33:26","modified_gmt":"2004-09-15T19:33:26","slug":"black_ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/black_ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other week I noticed that Palm had updated their eBook software with <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.palmdigitalmedia.com\/products\/palmreader\/free\">eReader<\/A>, their new improved version. The way they make you set it up is that you get the full &#8220;Pro&#8221; version for 15 days before it defaults to the normal version. And you also get to look at some ebooks for that period. I downloaded a pile but <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0752815415\">Black Ice<\/A> was the only one I got into. The trouble came when my 15 days neared completion and I hadn&#8217;t finished it.<br \/>\nThe last time I read a book against the clock was probably when I was at school. The software expired at midnight last night, and I finished the book at about 11.40pm.<br \/>\nWhat did I think of the book detailing the adventures of LA detective Harry Bosch? Not too bad. Quite potboiled in all the correct ways. I wouldn&#8217;t rush to read another in the series but I might quite easily be tempted in the airport. (Actually, as an aside, I love airport bookshops. They always have those trade paperback versions of new hardbacks for around a tenner. I was in Heathrow last week for a brief excursion to Scotland, and was sorely tempted by the new <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0436205270\">David Lodge book<\/A>. Indeed, I&#8217;ve seriously contemplated heading off to Heathrow in the past, just to do some book shopping!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other week I noticed that Palm had updated their eBook software with eReader, their new improved version. The way they make you set it up is that you get the full &#8220;Pro&#8221; version for 15 days before it defaults to the normal version. And you also get to look at some ebooks for that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}