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Ssshh! Here’s How to Borrow Library Books for Your Kindle

The process of borrowing books for your Kindle or Kindle apps from your public library is not difficult, exactly. But there are a lot of steps. The one that caused me the most frustration was getting the library card number … Continue reading

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Travels with Henry, Day 6

This coffee shop still life comes to you from Coffee & Company at 53 Pricess Street in Kingston, Ontario. Impressively, it has no web site. Which is not to say it’s unwired; most of us are bent over screens of … Continue reading

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Girl, Dog, Beach

We were reading our Kindles at the beach when an autumn breeze came up. So I fetched additional layers of clothing up at the cottage and returned with a bag of almonds and a root beer. Our friend Holly, a … Continue reading

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Blogging a Maine Moment

Our six guests have returned to Nebraska. The old cottage sighs and settles into the rhythms of a man, woman, and a very small dog. We are all on the same bed on the second floor, listening to the surf … Continue reading

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Travel Rx: iPad AND Kindle on Flight to Denver

 I’m on a Southwest flight, half way from Boston to Denver. In my “Life Is Good” cloth bag, I’m toting a Kindle 6-inch and the iPad on which I’m drafting this post in the Pages app.  I told Bryan … Continue reading

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K4K Launched to Provide Kindles for Troops

Yesterday I launched a project to provide free Kindles for U.S. troops serving in Afghanistan.  I chose Kandahar because of the letter K, but also because it’s the general region where Army Sgt. Andre B. Corbin will serve when he … Continue reading

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A Sabbatical from Politics Till the Fourth of July

I have decided to take a five-month break from politics. To some extent, I have Steve Jobs to thank for this decision.  Apple’s handing down of its new tablet on Wednesday has turned the eBook space white hot.  The iPad … Continue reading

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Odds and Ends Toward the End of a Year

1. Cory Doctorow and Stephen King have hijacked my Kindle with great fiction reads. My pre-ordered copy of King’s Under the Dome arrived, as promised, on Christmas Eve. It’s scary how well he tells a story.  I suspect that I … Continue reading

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