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Thank you so much, everyone, for your good thoughts! Really meant a lot. The bug has gone now, here are my afterthoughts; (1) it’s damnably infectious. If someone in your household gets it, everyone else will too, unless you impose drastic...

I think Jack had this back in September. It may have let him with some longterm effects. Pancreatititis? But he's off to Italy anyway. The town that built a set for his game wants him to design a tourist interface. C heck your DM;s for a lot of...

First quick thoughts… It’s probably in part a pre-emptive move by Amazon to forestall anti-competitive (EU?) lawsuits. Not entirely sure about this, but it’s probably a factor, i.e. consumer “lock-in”. They have a nice, tidy Kindle monopoly and...

It’s about all I was capable of doing :) Thanks, KE! Yes, the death of the mass-market paperback, eh? Pulls you up short, doesn’t it.

For those wondering how to pronounce the name Blathnaid (Full Set - Dublin based publishing house), it is Blo (as in blossom or blonde) - nid.

Today’s Book News Monday, 15th December 2025 Amazon loosens download rules for DRM‑free KDP e‑books From January 2026 Amazon will allow customers who buy Kindle books without digital rights management (DRM) to download files in EPUB or PDF...

Today’s Book News Saturday, 13th December 2025 Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks Mass‑market paperbacks are set to largely vanish from the US trade as ReaderLink will stop distributing them at the end of 2025. Publishers Weekly notes that...

Today’s Book News Friday, 12th December 2025 Amazon Is Loosening Its DRM Policy for Kindle Starting January 20, Amazon will allow Kindle Direct Publishing authors to make their titles DRM‑free and offer downloads in EPUB or PDF format. This...

I thought I’d avoided it, actually - everyone else in the house came down with I but I didn’t… until I did. It’s extraordinarily infectious! The manic-expulsive phase is over, thank the gods, but it’s left me weak as a kitten. Send me a small...

Ginger tea: the best for settling a stomach.

Absolutely no fun at all. I hope you are getting plenty of rest and fluids. I suspect your diet is pretty healthy, so your gut is likely to be more resilient than most. Here's hoping normal service is resumed soon.

Get well soon x

Oh no, that's awful. Sending a flood of well wishes!

Oh dear! Rest and recover :heart::sun-behind-large-cloud: