Future Poltergeist

While we were in the car today DF started a conversation. DF: When there is a . . . skeleton, can you clean up all the yucky stuff? Me: I'm sorry, what? DF: You know, all the yucky stuff.  Around the tummy. Me: (pause) So, just clean the stuff away so that only the bones are there? DF: Yes. Me: Sure.  DF: (after a moment of thought) If someone dies at our house, I think we should clean them until they're just bones.  Notice to any future guests, in the event of your untimely demise at our humble abode, don't worry.  We have a plan in place.

I got my Kindle a little more than four years ago .  I've been very happy with it.  Very.  In those years, I've downloaded more than 100 books onto the device.  The Kindle has been great for my Great Books project, as it's let me make notes in my books guilt free.  It's been a great deal.  (And yes, I still read bound books.  I go back and forth quite easily.) A couple of weeks ago I ran into a problem.  The batter life was sharply decreased.  It used to be that I'd charge it about once every three weeks or so.  More often if I was using it more, but that only makes sense.  Then something changed it needed to be charged every few days.  Not so good.  The one big downside with the Kindle, in comparison to a physical book, is that if you run out of juice, you can't read from it.  That's not a risk if you're charging once or twice a month.  But the math changes if you need it to happen every other day.  (And b...