It turns out part of my problem with Terry Pratchett’s Jingo was baby-induced. Buttons had been discovered, touch-screens pressed, font enlarged, and suddenly I was further through than I knew.

And then said baby put me back a way and I was hunting through to find where I had been and realised that I hadn’t read this bit…

The trouble with Kindles (and, probably, any other ereader you might care to name. I don’t know, are Kobos like that? I keep thinking about switching to Kobo, but then I’d have to work out how to transfer the Kindle library and I only have so much technological space in my brain).

But anyway. Having discovered this so far unread chunk of Jingo, it started making more sense, later jokes started working, and I managed to whizz through the rest. And now I’m reading Thud!. Largely because Amazon offered it to me for 99p. And who can argue with that? I have no doubt that, at some point, I will go back to collecting the print copies.

And I know, I’m reading them completely out of order. Not even in City Watch order. I have Guards! Guards! on the shelf awaiting a reread. And I picked up Hogfather from the library last week. I have read it before (borrowed from a sibling), and I love the TV adaptation that ITV (I think) made years ago. A regular Christmas watch.

I did once attempt to collect and read them in order of publication. I’ve got the first maybe eight Discworld novels, all read, and then they started jumping about a bit. I was finding them in charity shops, you see. And then I got to the point where I couldn’t remember which ones I had and which ones I didn’t.

The main problem I’m finding with the eBook versions is the footnotes. Maybe it’s just me and my Kindle, but I haven’t worked out how to jump to and fro with ease, so I ignore the footnotes until the end, and then they don’t always make much sense. Never mind.

But I’m getting on with rereading Pratchett. And reading, in the case of some of these. Not new to the author or to Discworld; haven’t read them all. Pratchett’s A Slip of the Keyboard is one of the few Books on Writing I have on my shelves. Not sure if it counts. Been a while since I read that one. It will be reread.

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