An Odd Glitch with Silas Marner

In my previous post, I mentioned that I was currently reading Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot and upon finishing that novel, I would go on to Eliot's Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe. I had already downloaded Silas Marner from Project Gutenberg and thought I'd go ahead and send it to my Kindle.

Because of an earlier glitch with a USB cord, I now email mobi files to my Kindle via my Gmail account. For reasons I can't explain, the size of the Silas Marner mobi file was given as 0 bytes and consequently, Gmail would not attach the file. I've a new USB cord, so I attempted to transfer the file directly to my Kindle. Again, for some unknown reason, the file would not transfer.

I went back to Project Gutenberg to download another copy of the ebook. The website lists the file size for Silas Marner as 689 kB. I have no idea why my earlier copy was giving the size as 0 bytes.

This file was downloaded to my PC and subsequently emailed to my Kindle.

Oh well, All's well that ends well.

Middlemarch

After an extraordinarily long and difficult struggle, I was finally able to finish reading H.G. Wells' extraordinarily horrible novel, The Shape of Things to Come. I began reading the novel following the recommendation of Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, and I soon began to regret having followed the Archbishop's suggestion.

As is often the case with particularly bad novels, I was only able to get through this one by beginning another novel and going back to the boring one by bits. The novel that allowed me to finish reading Wells' piece of drivel was George Eliot's  Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life. I still have quite a lot left to read in this novel. I've already downloaded several books to read this year - Eliot's Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe being one of them. I will probably go onto it upon finishing Middlemarch.

My Return to the Blogosphere.

It's hard to believe that it's only been a month since I mentioned the destruction of the my camera's memory card and the difficulty I was having getting it replaced. A few days ago, a friend gave a 8GB SDHC memory card to me.

I thought my problems were solved. I was wrong. I had failed to look into the reason why my original memory card became damaged to start with. As it turned out, it was my defective memory card reader that was causing the problems. I had to replace, not only the 2nd damaged memory card, but the card reader as well.

Fortunately, I was able to find replacements for both in two different shops on Perdices Ave.

After taking my son to school this morning, I drove down to the boulevard to purchase sliced ham from the JLH Butcher-shop. This seemed like a good opportunity to take a few more photos to upload to Google Maps.

The Bricks Hotel and TOM N TOMS COFFEE.