Preetam Rai

A restful repast was taken in this fine establishment in the Arabic quarter of Singapore. And now with a fine polynesian brew at the ready, I think about pleasant distractions of the week past. If you wonder, why my vocabulary seems different, I have been reading classic books from a century back on this new ebook reader on iPhone called Eucalyptus.

Looking to pass the time on the flight from Thailand, I had downloaded Eucalyptus. it is a e-book reader that at the moment only reads the ebooks available on the Gutenberg project.   I ended up downloading classics such as Around the World in 80 days by Jules Verne and some texts on China by Herbert Allen Giles. Let me show you how the page flip looks like on Eucalyptus.

This app costs 10$ on the iTunes app store. It is a thing of beauty, worth the price. The rendered text is so crisp, so close to print. Thanks to Eucalyptus, now I am enjoying these old books and remembering the innocent years on my childhood when I first read these, dozens of summers back, in a land far away, with Mayflowers blooming and the scent from eucalyptus trees all around.