Richard Herley
15 July 2025
AI generated novels
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An interesting take. I hope he’s right.
7 June 2025
The Kindle Own-goal
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Back in February, though I was unaware of it at the time, Amazon changed the rules as regards backing up one’s Kindle ‘purchases’. Before th...
9 March 2025
Bookbinding then and now
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This is how books were made when the contents were seen as precious and worthy of handing down to succeeding generations. The process is o...
11 February 2025
Reformatting paragraphs in Project Gutenberg ebooks
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I would be the last person to criticise the vast repository of public domain literature at Project Gutenberg . However, some titles there ar...
8 January 2025
Removing a stuck seatpost
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Warning: what follows is of no interest to anyone who isn’t a bike nerd! A seatpost is not something you normally think of as needing main...
6 January 2025
On the raising of hats
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As a collector of curious books, some years ago I bought a second-hand copy of The Pocket Book of Etiquette edited by Carlton Wallace (Evan...
4 January 2025
Idealism is so 2008
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I published the following piece on my (now defunct) website, which I set up to distribute my books on the shareware principle , with, these ...
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