Wow, was I tired while downloading all my ebooks

Now I have to admit that I wrote yesterday’s post the night before and didn’t have time to edit it in the morning. Because while I had planned to go to bed early (as always) what actually happened was that I stumbled over yet another post and linked video about the fact that people won’t be able to download their Kindle ebooks to their computers anymore starting February 26. Which shouldn’t be a problem but does remind me somehow of the time when I suddenly couldn’t access any of the ebooks that I had bought on the Barnes & Nobles website back in the day when I was still using a Palm device. Fortunately in that case I managed to get the books off the Palm’s SD card and eventually on my first Kindle. The one that I bought in 2010 from the US.

And I really wanted to take that chance to download everything to my computer but I have a lot of ebooks. Really. Lots. So downloading them one by one by hand was completely out of the question. But, someone not only wrote a script to make downloading easier, they also put it on the internet for free. So I decided to install a script in my browser for the first time ever.

And also, I decide to do it at 9 pm. You can see the mistake, yes?

Anyways. I installed the plugin, I found the script, I figured out how to install a script in the plugin. Things were not working. I looked at incomprehensible javascript code. I switched the plug-in on and off, I restarted the browser, nope. I started over with a different browser. I found something I had forgotten. I changed the thing. Nothing happened. I realized that the script said „amazon.com“ while I, of course, was looking at „amazon.de“. Of course things weren’t working. I changed that line of the code. I tried everything again, closed the browser, opened it again, looked at everything. This time there was a little red mark that told me something was happening but the promised button the script should have provided – didn’t happen.

I gave up after trying everything all over again at around 11.30. I turned the lights out at 12.30. I’m not quite sure what happened in between but I do remember that I realized I was parched and that I hadn’t drunk anything since 3 in the afternoon. There was also something on Instagram or something.

Anyways. I slept for less than five hours, always a bad idea. But I had to get up to wake the boy up so he could get to uni in time for his exam.

I really enjoyed the time alone in the morning but I was really, really tired. And then I looked at the script and the code again. And noticed that there was a warning sign next to the last line of code. And that that line appeared twice. So I deleted the line and – had a working script. Hallelujah! (I’m skipping over several other steps here, be grateful for that but you know how it is with code.)

And then I started downloading my books. More than a hundred pages of them. It took all day but I got it done.

And then I wrote morning pages and started writing the next scene in my story. Because I had had an epiphany about what happens next while half-delirious in the middle of the night.

I did yoga. I ate breakfast. I tackled some of the ends on the crochet blanket. I talked with my husband but only for half an hour. Before all that I helped the boy get to uni on time. I walked to the nearby supermarket and ate asparagus risotto for lunch:

I downloaded some more books. And some more. I read a little and marveled at all the books I had bought and especially at the ones I had really looked forward to reading and still hadn’t gotten around to.

I taught my first two students, and downloaded some more books, and taught two more students, and talked with my husband some more, finally ate dinner and some chocolate, more books, you get the gist, started writing this post, did Duolingo, made myself a cup of tea, more books and went to bed.

I’m really looking forward to today being just an ordinary day.

Oh, and do you know what the very first ebook was that I ever bought? „Unclutter your life in one week“, of course, which is pretty typical for me. I bought it December 29th of 2009.