{"quotes":[{"text":"Detective Inspector Eccles sighed. He may ordinarily have met his sigh with the question of why the newly appointed Superintendent Dickinson was turning up to this late hour crime scene, he may also ordinarily question why his superior officer was dressed as Julius Caesar, in full tunic and green leafy wreath, yet ever since the new and youngest-ever-appointed superintendent had arrived at the Met it had been all too clear he was an officer who didn’t quite do things by the eBook.","author":"Tom Conrad","tags":["comedy","crime-scenes","detectives","ebooks","humour","murder","pomposity"],"id":8202,"author_id":"Tom+Conrad"},{"text":"Be the winner in your life!","author":"Tae Yun Kim","tags":["ebooks","inspirational","quotes","self-esteem","winner"],"id":10316,"author_id":"Tae+Yun+Kim"},{"text":"If I were to lock you up in a dungeon, I guarantee you would not be bored.","author":"Priya Ardis","tags":["arthurian","chick-lit","coming-of-age","e-books","ebooks","fairy-tales","fantasy","heroic-fantasy","mythology","paranormal","paranormal-romance","retellings","sword-and-sworcery","urban-fantasy","wizards","ya-paranormal","ya-romance","young-adult","young-adult-fantasy"],"id":13525,"author_id":"Priya+Ardis"},{"text":"Until recently, I was an ebook sceptic, see; one of those people who harrumphs about the “physical pleasure of turning actual pages” and how ebook will “never replace the real thing”. Then I was given a Kindle as a present. That shut me up. Stock complaints about the inherent pleasure of ye olde format are bandied about whenever some new upstart invention comes along. Each moan is nothing more than a little foetus of nostalgia jerking in your gut. First they said CDs were no match for vinyl. Then they said MP3s were no match for CDs. Now they say streaming music services are no match for MP3s. They’re only happy looking in the rear-view mirror.","author":"Charlie Brooker","tags":["books","digital-age","ebooks","ereader","fiction","kindle","novels"],"id":16363,"author_id":"Charlie+Brooker"},{"text":"And I thought Ereaders could not become any more dreadful.","author":"S.A. Tawks","tags":["books","ebooks","ereaders","imagination","reader","reading","spirituality","writing"],"id":23559,"author_id":"S.A.+Tawks"},{"text":"For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it.","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["books","ebooks","industry","market","publishing","writer","writing"],"id":25090,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"},{"text":"I am completely unflustered by whichever medium people choose to read my words. I'm just delighted they're reading them at all!","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["ebooks","format","publishing","reading","words","writer","writing"],"id":36108,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"},{"text":"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","bad-graphic-design","ebook","ebooks","font","fonts","funny","good-graphic-design","graphic-design","graphic-designer","graphic-designers","graphics","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","illegibility","illegible","joke","jokes","layout","layouts","legibility","legible","satire","text","texts"],"id":45196,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"He had panicked. Tessier cursed his own stupidity. He should have remained in the column where he would have been protected. Instead, he saw an enemy coming for him like a revenant rising from a dark tomb, and had run first instead of thinking.Except this was no longer a French stronghold. The forts had all been captured and surrendered and the glorious revolutionary soldiers had been defeated. If the supply ships had made it through the blockade, Vaubois might still have been able to defend the city, but with no food, limited ammunition and disease rampant, defeat was inevitable.Tessier remembered the gut-wrenching escape from Fort Dominance where villagers spat at him and threw rocks. One man had brought out a pistol and the ball had slapped the air as it passed his face. Another man had chased him with an ancient boar spear and Tessier, exhausted from the fight, had jumped into the water. He had nearly drowned in that cold grey sea, only just managing to cling to a rock whilst the enemy searched the shoreline. The British warship was anchored outside the village, and although Tessier could see men on-board, no one had spotted him. Hours passed by. Then, when he considered it was clear, he swam ashore to hide in the malodorous marshland outside Mġarr. His body shivered violently and his skin was blue and wrinkled like withered fruit, but in the night-dark light he lived. He had crept to a fishing boat, donned a salt-stained boat cloak and rowed out to Malta's monochrome coastline. He had somehow managed to escape capture by abandoning the boat to swim into the harbour. From there it had been easy to climb the city walls and to safety. He had written his account of the marines ambush, the fort’s surrender and his opinion of Chasse, to Vaubois. Tessier wanted Gamble cashiered and Vaubois promised to take his complaint to the senior British officer when he was in a position to. Weeks went past. Months. A burning hunger for revenge changed to a desire for provisions. And until today, Tessier reflected that he would never see Gamble again.Sunlight twinkled on the water, dazzling like a million diamonds scattered across its surface.Tessier loaded his pistol in the shadows where the air was still and cool. He had two of them, a knife and a sword, and, although starving and crippled with stomach cramps, he would fight as he had always done so: with everything he had.","author":"David Cook","tags":["action-adventure","adventure-fiction","ebooks","fiction","historical-fiction","malta","military-history","royal-marines","royal-navy","vengeance","war"],"id":47647,"author_id":"David+Cook"},{"text":"We may need to put down the book from time to time, but we should make sure not to let the computer become the new book. The universal medium, like the universal library, is a dream that does more harm than good.","author":"Andrew Piper","tags":["ebooks","reading-books"],"id":50939,"author_id":"Andrew+Piper"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":54,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}