Family and celebration of life...

For the past days, I've been receiving emails from friends. A friend just lost her sister over cancer and now two of my friends, a member of their immediate family, also have cancer. I was dismayed and sad. Losing a loved one is very difficult indeed but knowing that a loved one is sick and is suffering is very traumatic experience. I hope and pray that my friends' family members will recover in their ordeal.

Life is really short. We don't when our life will end and how it will end. We must appreciae what we have and always celebrate life. Praying will be our comfort in times of difficult times. To God be the Glory.

Georestrictions in purchasing ebooks from ebooks sites...

I sent an email to kobobooks.com to ask if I won't have any difficulties in purchasing from their site if I'm outside the US. Barnes and Nobles has georestrictions in all of their online products. Amazon.com has none, in my area. Diesel also has georestrictions. I can only purchase Harlequin books. Kobo customer care replied and said some of their ebooks have restrictions but most of them are available for purchase by international buyers.


To sum it up:

Amazon.com (US Site) - None in my area but UK residents can't purchase from US website.
Barnes and Noble - only US-residents can purchase and you must be physically in the US to be able to purchase.
Kobo.com - some books are restricted. Kobo customer care said this is not their fault but of the publishers.
Diesel - Most of their books are restricted in my area. I can only purchase Harlequin ebooks.

Updating list of books in Calibre

I've been updating my books in Calibre, checking one by one and as of 6:40PM, July 7, it's running up to 16,241 ebooks checked for format quality and deemed to be Good to Retail Quality.

I know I can't read it but since I'm a bookworm, I know I wouldn't be able to sleep if there's a book out there that I can't see in my collection.