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Eggs & baskets, Kobo & Calibre

Posted by | Published on June 1, 2014

It always concerned me that Amazon had such a monopoly on ebooks. However, my customer satisfaction since purchasing my first kindle in 2009, compared with the obvious inferiority […] 

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The Quiet Revolution at Your Local Library

Posted by | Published on September 1, 2013

The future of the book has been widely discussed in the last decade, as has that great democratic institution, the library. Both have been challenged […] 

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I want to show you our world as it is now: the door, the floor, the water tap and the sink, the garden chair close to the wall beneath the […] 

The Handmaid’s Tale #review and my #reading in April  →

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“Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won’t do that again.” The Handmaid’s Tale p. 307 I suspected re-reading The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood prior to viewing the Tribeca film festival […] 

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