In the middle of the night, last night, after a day of near record temperatures, the two top shelves in my home office collapsed with a mighty roar, waking the household. The effects were worse than it looks in the pic: a lovely designer chair was destroyed, my much loved glass desk was irreparably damaged, and a Oaxacan wood carving was broken. I blame the heat because of the differential expansion rate of different metals. But, that’s just a guess.

In any case, it certainly shows one advantage of ebooks: they are perhaps a little less likely to kill you.