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Blindingly bright and compact, 1 May 2013

and replacing a large, bulky incandescent bulb lantern for emergency use.

For what I need it for, which is primarily any potential rare power cuts, it meets my needs perfectly.

While unused I store it on a hook on the back of a door where it is flush - by the hook that is on the back of the light - and is out of the way and out of mind, something the lantern was not.

It is very bright when looked straight at, but I will not be trying to do any reading or do any intricate work with it so it meets the requirement to compliment candles.

And being LED it takes 4 AA batteries commonly used instead of larger torch batteries I don't have spares of… Read more

So that is why I got rid of my first copy, 20 Mar 2013

being a long time ago and not remembering the story at all. Although that is mostly the problem with the book, there is no story.

Bethke is credited with coining the phrase cyberpunk, although Gibson made it mean what it does, so there should be some hope that this is somewhat of a classic. It isn't.

Despite when it was published it hasn't actually aged that badly, other than the VR which nearly 20 years later is an anachronism that is difficult to find any physical trace of. The technical references are still valid and solid enough to anyone familiar with them back then, indicating how competent the book was.

The style of comedy and humour is set… Read more

Cheap and nasty, 5 Mar 2013

and thinking that a tax disc holder was just a tax disc holder whatever the price.

Replacing a condensation damaged Magnetax, it is practically the same product. Easy enough to attach to the screen, but the disc ring is so brittle that it tore in a couple of places while I was applying it and went straight into the bin.

This is in contrast to the Magnetax one that I had to spend 5 minutes getting off using a fingernail.

Replaced with a Magnetax next day, the backing is cardboard unlike this one that is rubber, and I just hope that it survives condensation longer than the last one but at least I knew what I was getting.