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I have been a stranger in a strange land. — Exodus 2: 22

It is very hard, dear brother, to live in a foreign land. — Leo Tolstoy, The Cossacks

If I were asked what I considered the greatest invention in my lifetime I would have no hesitation in replying that it is the e-reader. Had my grandfather, for example, wished to own the collected works of Plato, he would have had to have taken time off from his work as a film developer for Paramount Films, travelled on the underground from his flat in Ealing,