 So there I was in the bookshop on Saturday, spending money that I couldn't really afford. It's always like that when I walk into a bookshop - I vow to only buy one book and I walk out with three, after agonising for over a hour on which ones to buy. In the past, I tried to remember the other titles so I could add them to my ever-growing Amazon wishlist but my atrocious memory instantly forgot all the titles when I got home ("er....it was green with a man on the front....."). So on Saturday, I decided to try something new and use my mobile phone camera to take photos of the book covers.
Of course I got lots of weird looks from people. In fact the bookshop owner was downright hostile. She probably thought I was "stealing to order" but I wasn't doing anything illegal so I continued nevertheless. I ended up with nine photographs and when I got home, I looked at the photos and added the titles to my Amazon wishlist.
Such a simple idea but one that never occurred to me until recently. I even took a photo of the car parking space number so we would find the car again in the multi-storey garage which was just as well because later we forgot where we parked the car!
Who says mobile phone cameras are useless?
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