It may be time for a new iPad. I read digital books, on an iPad, almost exclusively these days. Today I’m trying to read a good new book and the Pad keeps running out of power before I’m ready to quit reading. Wetware outlasts hardware, a digital John Henry kind of thing. It’s ruining my plan for a peaceful day lost in what Dave Putnam calls the Fictive Dream.

I can repurpose the battery-sucking iPad as the full-time controller for Tidal Music and the Elac music server.