Storyteller

I just learned about it recently, and it looks really awesome. It does ebooks, audio, and both. It’s main feature is that you can read along with the audio, and it will highlight sentences as the audio goes.

I agree, though here’s my anecdote from the PNW.

We’ve had a couple storms this winter. One of them I lost power for 4 hours, but a friend of mine in the next town over was out 4 days. And some didn’t lose at all, so it varies. Power outages like this aren’t too rare every year.

It doesn’t bode well for our freezers, but we don’t get cold enough to be anything other than cold and inconvenient. Easily remedied by temporary solutions you mentioned.