100 Years of Solitude and Amazon

I mentioned that I had purchased 100 Years of Solitude. What was very unusual for me is that I actually purchased the paperback. Keeping books on a sailboat is a challenge, they usually turn to pulp fairly quickly. Not to mention that they take up a lot of space. This is why every marina has a free book exchange shelf or shelves. Some have extensive offerings. I was stunned when checking into Marathon, Florida to find a library of thousands of books. 100 Years of Solitude has yet to be converted to Kindle so I ended up buying the paperback.

Amazon got a big leg up by pioneering ebooks and the Kindle format. Nots to mention Prime and Unlimited. But what have they done for me lately? The paperback deliver was late by a couple of days. Probably due to service disruptions caused by Covid-19. This morning out of the blue I got an email from Amazon. They gave me a store credit for the shipping cost without being asked. A good way to maintain customer loyalty.

Fair winds and following seas 😀

YouTube Channel

After many years I have decided to spend some time on my YouTube channel. Rather than a travelog it will be focused on two things: World cruising tips and hints and digital music production using digital audio workstations. You can hopefully find it and subscribe searching for Roger John Jones but if that fails this link should get you there:

 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoXNMKhG5rSNbqGCPA3GP3A?view_as=subscriber

Fair winds and following seas 😀

100 Years of Solitude

What better way to spend my time during the Covid-19 panic than to read Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years Of Solitude.

Márquez was a both a journalist and writer. Perhaps you have read or heard of another of his famous books: Love in the Time of Cholera. His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style known as magic realism, which uses magical elements and events in otherwise ordinary and realistic situations. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.

Fair winds and following seas 😀