Last week, having missed the bus from Tel Aviv to Mevasseret, I found myself unexpectedly on the train. My natural instinct on being in that situation is to read a book, but I didn’t have one with me. I know I have various books uploaded onto my iphone-Kindle, but sitting in a train and looking at one’s phone isn’t quite the same thing.

As an avid reader since childhood, my most natural position in life is to be sitting comfortably, reading a book. In the course of my years in London, like most denizens of that city I spent many hours traveling by train (the infamous Tube), going to and from school, university or work, and could not contemplate any journey without having a book to read. But last week I had to endure that half-hour journey without proper reading........

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