Big surprise yesterday: UPS logistics is ... / 2011-08-02

Big surprise yesterday: UPS logistics is able to do a 'deliver to neighbour' on a residential address. Since we have nice neighbours in the street a package was delivered there and we found the note to pick it up. That is quite an improvement over having to go to some warehouse in a far away industrial area only reachable by car.

In the package: two Amazon Kindles. Yes, we're going e-book! The main reason is quite simple: on cycling holidays books are a serious part of the weight we drag along. Having the entire library as a lightweight (240 gram) e-reader is nicer.

One effect is that I think I want to add something with editions / versions of books to detail pages about books on virtualbookcase so it is visible when a book is available in a kindle version. This has already been on my mind for UK/US versions (which happened for books like Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK version) / Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (US version). Ideally, I'd like to link all versions of the same book so I can show all reviews together. And as an added bonus I could show availability of hardback / paperback / kindle versions at places like amazon. But that will take some serious programming time...