A few years back I spent £130 on a DVD: “Birds of Britain and Europe”. It was astounding.

This was the future of bird books. There was text, photographs, maps — and videos of the birds doing their bird stuff, recordings of their songs, alarm calls, everything you could possibly want for browsing and species identification. I was awestruck. It was a lot of money, but money well spent.

However I don’t have Mac OS 9 any more so I can no longer use it. The publisher upgraded it to OS 10.2 and then gave up on the upgrades, suggesting I spend £150 on the new version.

So my DVD of “Birds of Britain and Europe” is now a very expensive drinks coaster, and I’m back to using the durable hardback Peterson’s guide I’ve had for years. And years. And years.

Ebooks are great if you read a lot of James Patterson. Or Dan Brown. Books you know you will never, ever want to read again.

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