Interesting Facts

Astrid Byro is a Technical project manager, in 2013 she planned to work remotely from 5,000 metres above sea level in the Himalayas. (The idea was to prove that working remotely was possible. She was planning to use a Kindle Fire tablet to access an online project tracking system, Jira.  What makes this really interesting, apart from the fact that it is interesting in its own right, is there doesn't seem to be any information on how this attempt went.  Her blog http://www.abc-ebc.blogspot.co.uk/ simply stops. Does anyone know anything?)

According to a study by uSwitch.com, one in 10 children in the UK has a mobile phone by the time they are 5 years old. (What's worse is a study by the National Literacy Trust said that children as young as 7 are more likely to own a mobile phone than a book. We can only hope they have downloaded the Kindle app.)

The very first paperback book was published in 1931 in Germany. (But it was in England in 1935 that paperbacks really took off with Penguin's publication of André Maurois' 'Ariel'. What would we do without them, or say Kindle?) xx Source - Wikipedia