Whilst browsing the Kindle store I noticed this book was only $3.99 and instantly purchased it as it was such a bargain! Elvis never died, he just had simple reconstructive surgery on his face and finger tips and is now working as a private eye in California. Bizarre hey?! So the story follows one case about a up and coming film star, whilst exploring his past as 'The King'.

The story was short, but funny. Alot of references to Elvis, but you don;t have to be a fan to understand the references. Well worth the $3.99. However, Ithink the book was corrupt as my kindle would often restart after a long period of reading it and would not always return to the furthest page read. I will be getting in touch with amazon about that one!

In 2008 I had a knee operation to deal with a knee plica that was bothering my after a fall two year previously. After the operation I asked the physio if I should be taking any precautions when it came to exercising. I was told to wear a knee support for a short while once I was ready to exercise, so here I am 4 years later still wearing an open patella knee support for exercise. Now, I am not wearing it because I want to, I am wearing it out of fear that if I take it off am I going to injury myself again?

After attempting not to wear it for a few runs I found that my knee needed further support, but I was fed up of wrestling with my current support after every run as it made my other exercises hard to complete. After a bit of research I found a lot of information about using support tape to strap my knee every time, so off to the local sports shop I went. I simply got a $5 roll of support tape as that was all they had, but also I didn't want to spend much more in case I found the tape was no good for me. I watched a video on Runner World on how to apply the tape. Ok, so I must point out that I wasn't using the same tape as these guys, but I knew that if the tape I had worked I might get some of the Kinesio Tex Tape used in the video.

Off out to the gym I went as it was -9 outside today, did a good 5k run at an elevation of 3 and broke my PB for treadmill 5k (27:05) and all with the tape on. 7 hours later I have no pain, and did not feel any pain when exercising so I might look into buying some of the better stuff! NO MORE KNEE SUPPORT! 

LINK : How to tape your knee

My apartment is becoming more and more overrun with books. I have accumulated over 30 books in the last 16 months, and therefore I am in need of a bookshelf. My fiancé wasn't to sure about this idea and suggested I looked into getting a kindle, so I can save space and have a gadget that I can read off.

I was a bit dubious at first I have to say. I love going into the bookstore, smelling coffee and paper, browsing the isles looking for that next tale to immerse myself in. So a Kindle didn't exactly appeal to me. That was until I started doing some research and looking at the Sony eBook and the quality of the screen. From this I new that the Amazon Kindle just had to be better, after all I don't know of many who have an eBook.

Only a few days later I had ordered my very own Kindle, complete with Burn Orange leather cover. UPS, for once, didn't mess my order up and I had it three days before I expected it to arrive. When I un-boxed it the screen was already on, although I thought this was an overlay, not realizing until closer inspection that it was the screen. I followed the instructions and once I was given the WiFi password (thanks to my fiancé and his super safe passwords) I was well on my way to downloading my very first Kindle book "Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove" by Christopher Moore.

All of the content of the book is there, and there is a small bar at the bottom of the 'page' to show you your percentage through the book. The best way to describe what the page looks like is "Paper in HD", I know it sounds silly, but the quality is so clear and so easy to read! The Kindle will also play MP3s so my Audible account was added and my latest audio book was immediately on the device. 

The Kindle store is perfect, searching for a book can be done just by typing on the keyboard on the bottom, or you can browse by author, genre, just like Amazon. The news paper and magazine subscription is one service I might not use, I'm not a fan of the newspapers, but it is still a good feature. 

There is a browser on the Kindle, but to be honest, I tried it out once, but it not meant to be used for facebook, so I'm not sure I'll use it...yet.

I like being able to download a sample of every book I want to read but don't want to commit to. The new Kindle boasts that it will download a book within 60 seconds, and a lot of the 'out of copyright' books are free. So far, all of the books I have added to my wish list are cheaper than the paper version.

So, I am converted, never again will I buy a book (Unless its a cook book, I don't want food over my Kindle).