Tag: kindle
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Amazon Kindle and Book Downloads
Reading Time: 3 minutesSome people are saying “Rush to download your Kindle Books because after the 26th of February you won’t be able to. My reaction is both neutral and to some degree indifferent. For me Amazon is destroying the reason for which people would buy from Kindle rather than other book sellers, but more…
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Lending Libraries in the Twenty First Century
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere was a time when you got an Audible Subscription and you had access to 24 credits per year. You could choose 24 books per year. That’s a new book every two weeks. Eventually, after many years the plan and offer changed. You can now buy books from Audible, or you can…
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Reading Rather than Sleeping
Reading Time: 2 minutesLast night I went to bed at a reasonable time. I took the time for a three pass shave with a DE blade, and then I browsed content. Eventually, at a reasonable time I opened the Kindle app on my phone to see how the choice of books has changed since the last…
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My Kindle Reading Streak
Reading Time: 2 minutesAccording to the Kindle app on my phone my longest Kindle Reading Streak was 126 days. I say “was”, because I lost it two days ago and now I am back to a one day reading streak. I hate that apps like Kindle count reading streaks as “days of reading in a…
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Reading Streaks
Reading Time: 3 minutesI read using the Kindle App, with a specific account for over one hundred days before making the mistake of logging in with a different account, and moving the primary account to an older phone. I lost my streak and now I feel free. Reading streaks are fantastic when the numbers are…
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Replacing Social Media with Book reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis year I am replacing Social Media with Book Reading because social media is no longer a conversational place. It has become a place for sensationalism and the spreading of fake news and emotional news. As a result of these factors the potential gain of new friendships and interesting conversations has declined.…