It’s a similar situation with a lot of Kindle books. Why should a downloadable file cost more than a physical paperback? It’s time they did an Autorip for books.
I’m still excavating stuff from my old record collection. The latest is Dave Brock’s solo album, Earthed To The Ground. The vinyl looks almost mint so it’s going into the "keep" pile.
You may remember the early days of Blogger. Posts didn’t have titles, and they were often quite short — sometimes just a sentence and maybe a link. And these posts appeared on a person’s own blog, which could be hosted anywhere.
I’m diving back into James Ellroy land. See you on the other side. 📚
You can create an atom feed of your Instagram follows for Monocle using this service. It’s a bit fiddly to get the Instagram cookie id but it still works.
https://instagram-atom.appspot.com/
Around this time tomorrow, the World Cup of Cricket, a once in four-year extravaganza will be underway. England, the hosts, will be squaring off against South Africa. To a majority of the residents of the planet, cricket means nothing. To about a billion-and-a-half people, however, it is life and death. I grew up as one of those cricket crazy fans.
“You know, it’s when people who proclaim themselves as “white supremacists” turn off Good Omens after the first few minutes, and then come on Twitter to tell me off, that I think sometimes a negative review is a marvelous and heartwarming thing. https://t.co/AwX3oclXaZ”

