My cynical side

  New Year is the time for Book Lists.

Books we should have read in the past year, and books we should look out for in the coming year.

I have to confess I almost never find anything on those lists that I have read or will likely read. I don't know who puts these lists together but I suspect it may be  people who a) work in the wide book world b) wish to promote certain books that suit their taste but not that of anyone else. I am pretty sure it won't be put together on the highest number of book sales. It may well be put together on how much a publisher is willing to pay to have it listed but that's my cynical side showing through.

Does anyone find strange things happening in the IT world? My heart has skipped several times over this holiday period when going to a site I use almost daily I found it has changed it's format. Sometimes it has stayed in the new format and sometimes it has reverted to its normal form after a day or two. Either way it is distressing  (not to a life threatening degree!) - perhaps I should have said annoying, which is more true to my feeling at the time - because then I have to spend time figuring out what has changed and how to deal with it. If the site deals with statistics then it is doubly annoying because years of figures can be lost. 

I've found that changing the title of an e-book on KDP means loss of sales reportage, reads, everything  prior to the date the change was made.  Had I known that I would have taken precautions, might not have made the change at all. Perhaps I ought to have realised it would happen. But I didn't, so I thought I would warn others.