I have a lot of eBooks on my tablet and phone. I also have a backup on my Linux laptop. In the past I have often just plugged the tablet into the laptop, opened the appropriate MTP folder, selected everything and copied them all to the backup, overwriting the previous backup. There has to be a better way, surely? Step up rsync. The problem is the MTP mount, however, I found a way to make it work.

Using NetBeans (version 7.0.1) to develop Android applications and for no apparent reason, a project that worked yesterday won’t run any more. It compiles without error but refuses to run - whether or not the emulator is running - and doesn’t produce an error. Hmmm. In the source code for the main Java class (yes, I said Java - anyone who knows me will be having a fit right now!) the very first line is flagged with a red (ok, pink!