Why do people use 0845 numbers?

I can never understand why people still dial 0845 numbers. 0845 numbers can only be dialled from the UK, so most organisations have to supply an alternative number for callers from abroad. All you have to do is replace the +44 at the start of the number with a zero, and you can dial using the free inclusive minutes on your mobile.

If this does not work, then you can always try saynoto0870.com which provides a list of alternative national numbers to try. However, unlike the above, this can be more hit and miss, as the alternative suggested may no longer be in use, or it takes you to another department within the organisation you are dialling.

If everyone used the national numbers as suggested above, organisations would soon get the message, and 0845 numbers would no longer be used.

Finding free content for your Kindle

Part of the attraction of owning a Kindle is the ability to read E-books that are out of copyright.

A great site for finding these books is http://freekindlebooks.org/ which contains a large selection of works in the Kindle compatible MOBI format.

You can either download the books onto your PC and copy them across to your Kindle, or you can use the built in browser to download the books direct to your Kindle. I prefer the former method, as it means you automatically have a backup of all your books.

The books on this site come from Project Guttenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/) which has also started to supply E-books in the Kindle format.

You may find that the pages of these books are not properly formatted, chapter headings merged into the text for example, but this does not detract from the reading pleasure. The copyright on books in the UK is 100 years, so even books published in the 1910's can be legally obtained for free.