>>>>>>>>>Good point Sherlock. I must have extended the ladder as well (it was a while ago). It was all good except when he broke his arm.
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>>>>>>>>I assume that happened when he fell off the bed ?
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>>>>>>>>>Then it was mattress on the floor time.
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>>>>>>>Those ikea beds have a nice barriers around them to prevent that sort of thing.
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>>>>>>I'm just wondering why you guys keep mentioning Ikea as if nobody else delivers furniture in pieces. Practically everything we bought since 1979 except, perhaps, some couches where the crew came and assembled them on the spot (read as: screwed the legs on), came in pieces and required assembly. That first set in 1979 and the kitchen we got in 2010 came with the guy who'd put it together, but pretty much everything else we did ourselves. What's the big deal?
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>>>>>In the UK Dragan IKEA was like a new dawn in self assembly furniture. Everybody else had to play catch up. Like I said I've assembled kitchens, cupboards beds etc and everything always lines up (apart from one terrible wardrobe/cupboard) and I've never had a missing bit. The only thing I would recommend is an electric screwdriver.
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>>>>I think my partner bought a bed from Ikea once. When we started to put it together it looked remarkable like a book case. Turned out it *was* a bookcase so they sent us a replacement bed but never took the bookcase away......
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>>>Funny story. But I think in general bookcases are so 90s. With ability to store hundreds of eBooks on an iPad/Kindle/..., who needs bookcases :).
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>>I've got an old Kindle with 3g. Use it a lot on vacation - nice to wake up in the morning with the daily paper already beside the bed :-}
>>But like others who responded I still keep (and buy) books. We seem to have bookshelves in every room of the house and on the landings.
>>Also just did a quick count and find I have about 80 software books in the office (some of them laughably outdated :-} )
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>I am surprised you even have software books; you could write them yourself.
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>The new (relatively) Kindle White that I bought about 1-2 years ago is very nice. In the sun it is just like paper; no straining your eyes at all. And it is very light so that if I wake up in the middle of the night I can read it without any effort. And adjust the brightness of the screen so that it does not bother the wife.
>I am not advocating that you and/or others stop buying paper books. But, I believe, more people switch from paper to e-format, so the "writing is on the wall"

I suspect books and eBooks will co-exist for a long, long time. People predicted that TV would kill radio, but it didn't.

Tamar