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Friday, June 27, 2014

Kobo Glo – Smart alternative to the Kindle – Computer Total

Kobo Glo was when he was one and a half years ago, appeared on the market, the first e-reader with built-in reading light. That the model is older than the competition, your brand in the control.

Charging takes longer and the touch screen is slightly less accurate. Glo, Also, in contrast to the andere Kobo’s , do not deal with books in mobi format. Read also: Kobo Aura HD – The best e-reader in 2014

Furthermore, the Glo same features as the Aura and Aura HD : the same built-in bookstore, Pocket-support and the ability to set the font, font size, and even the spacing, margins relative to the edges and alignment

Kobo Touch

The Kobo Glo is the oldest model of Kobo being sold yet. Some shops have the Kobo Touch also in stock. This e-reader is its purchase price of eighty euros a lot cheaper than many other e-readers. If you consider buying this model to keep in mind this e-reader is a lot slower, low resolution (which

the letters appear less sharp) and does not have a built-in reading light features.

Yet Glo is most similar to the tested Kindle White Paper . The rubbery back provides a comfortable grip and the edges on the side sufficient margin to impose. Thumbs Also it is very matte, screen making it much less reflective in sunlight than the Kobo Aura (HD). However, the letters slightly duller compared to other e-readers.

With the Kobo software you buy e-books on your PC.

Kindle alternative

If you are considering buying a Kindle Paperwhite but you have hiccups against for example the time-consuming procurement process or would you like to purchase Dutch books in the bookstore built, then the Kobo Glo smart, comparable alternative. For about two bucks more, you have a Kobo Glo (right) hands. With a little luck you will find the Glo also going places for the same price as the Kindle offer.

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Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Amazon Kindle Paperwhite – Hundreds of books in your backpack – Computer Total

Especially now that summer at the door is an e-reader is an ideal travel companion. Instead of one or more large books can now slide simply an e-reader in your travel bag, filled with a shelf of books. We test the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite.

Kindle is the e-reader line from Amazon. Worldwide, these devices are particularly popular. The convenience of the e-reader in combination with extended digital bookstore was a great success and an example for competitors such as Apple and Kobo. Lees Also: Kobo Aura – The best e-reader on the go

However, there is a problem. Amazon is not active in the Netherlands. That means that you e-reader to order. using the American, English or German Amazon website So you need to have some patience before the unit falls onto the doormat and you run the risk of having to pay. An import duty The connected digital bookstore Amazon has by far the largest selection of books compared to other e-readers. Downside is that the book is not offered. Dutch

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Do not hit right out of the field by these two negatives. Because opposite are excellent value for money and the fact that you can also read that you have downloaded from other sources. Without the Amazon bookstore book Note here that the Kindle Paperwhite can not cope with the well-known here as ePub files.

Before you put the books on your e-reader so here you have them on your PC convert, for example, the Calibre program, or you download the book in pdf or mobi format used by Amazon. When you connect the reader via a micro-USB cable, you simply copy the books through the Windows Explorer to the Kindle. Note that you place the books in the Documents folder, otherwise they are not displayed on the device.

What is an e-reader?

An e-reader is different from a tablet because of an e-Ink screen. This basically mimics a book page after, without color, because the technology to make e-inkschermen color has not yet developed far

genpeg consumer level. Of these screens is no light, so reading is more comfortable for the eyes. But it does bring back one of the disadvantages that you have also to ordinary books: you can not read in the dark

That’s why some manufacturers have a night light built in the display illuminated from the sides.. Another difference of an e-Ink screen with respect to a tablet is that the display screen does not consume any power. Only turning the page, navigation within the files, the wifi-verbinding and any nightlight consume power, so a fully charged battery lasts long. In tablets is indicated how many hours a battery charge will last. With e-readers that goes up to weeks.

Reading

In practice, the Kindle a very nice device to read. From The letters eyes ‘soft’ and the reader is comfortable in the hand thanks to the edges on the side. The screen is placed slightly lower, allowing you to touch the screen while reading is not accidental and page turns.

Minimalist and sturdy.

The rubberized back allows for plenty of grip. There is only an on-off button is present, all control is via the touch screen. A tap on the right side of the screen brings you to the next page, the left just one page. It is also possible to scroll with a swipe. Press the top of the screen, then you come the right options. From here you can return to the main menu of the Kindle, you also serves here the brightness of the night light, you look at your shopping cart in the Amazon bookstore and search for other boeken.

There are also some buttons for reading settings, such as the ability to browse to a specific page or chapter to create a bookmark and buttons to change. font size and font Also worth mentioning is the reading shown progress and estimated time remaining for the chapter. In short, everything is there to relax and read a book, no matter where you are

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Sometimes do you want to read, sometimes it’s nicer to be read. When you get while on your way to work off the train and on the bike, for example. in the Kindle apps for iOS and Android from Amazon is it possible now to à la switching between reading and listening.

If you have paid for the audio version of the e-book you’re reading, minute, you can switch to the audio version with a touch. This audio versions cost between 99 99 cents and $ 3. So you will have to pay double for the same material.

Monday, June 23, 2014

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Sunday, June 22, 2014

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Friday, June 13, 2014

Amazon might sell you a Kindle on an interest-free payment plan – GigaOM

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Amazon is now offering selected customers the ability to purchase either a Kindle or a Kindle Fire on a interest-free payment plan. Here’s how it works:

You pay off the Kindle over five months, with 20 percent of the purchase price due each installment. For the $ 69 Kindle, for instance, That Means five payments of $ 13.80, with shipping and any applicable taxes added to the first payment. What happens if you do not pay the device off? Well, the last time Amazon ran this type of promotion , with the Kindle HDX (a much more expensive device) Shortly before Christmas, it threatened to cut off access to Amazon services if the device was not paid off in full.

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Recently, Amazon’s been trying out a program selected All which lets customers try a Fire TV for 30 days before paying . It has usefull leg working with carriers like Ting so customers can pay Their service bill through Amazon Payments . Combined with this payment plan, it looks

like Amazon now has a quiver of promotional tools to get over last-minute hesitation and get devices into customer’s hands, All which could all be Utilized when Amazon launches its first smartphone later this week .

There’s no credit check needed for this promotion. Presumably, Amazon knows you’re likely good for it based on your account history, or it does not care Because Kindle owners spend more on Amazon products and services. However, it seems silly to offer credit to buy Amazon’s least expensive Kindle devices. If someone would rather pay off a $ 69 device over five payments, how likely are they to purchase a ton or $ 10 ebooks?

Because it’s another one of Amazon’s targeted promotions , the deal Is not available to everyone – I personally can not take advantage of it – but you can check here to see if you’re eligible.

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Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Amazon Kindle app for iPad & iPhone gains Audible audiobook integration – AppleInsider

By AppleInsider Staff

Amazon’s official Kindle app for iPad and iPhone has been updated to include integration with audio versions of titles when purchased through the service Audible, as well as cloud syncing with Whispersync for Voice.

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Kindle for iOS, as well as Google’s Android, now allows users to switch between reading and listening without leaving the app, as long as they own both the Audible and Kindle versions of a title. The free Update is now available.

Of course, new e-book or Audible purchases can not be accomplished through the Kindle for iOS app, as Amazon chooses to bypass Apple’s in-app purchasing rules. Otherwise, Amazon would be forced to pay Apple a 30 percent cut of all Kindle sales.

But for users who browse Amazon’s website through a traditional Web browser, audio upgrades to Kindle books are available for as little as 99 cents, while upgrades to sellers starting at $ 3.99. The updated app

takes advantage of Amazon’s “Whispersync for Voice,” which allows users to havetheir audiobook pick up where they left off reading.

“We’re working hard to help customers find more moments each day to enjoy a great book,” said Russ Grandinetti, Senior Vice President, Amazon Kindle . “Integrating professional narration into our Kindle apps Means you never have to put down a favorite book, start reading at home, get in the car and simply tap a button to continuous listening without losing your place.”

Professional narration is currently available for more than 45,000 Kindle books. Amazon usefull sacrifices the Matchmaker service , All which scans a user’s Kindle library to find titles All which have a companion Audible version available.

“We continued to hear from a growing number of Whispersync for Voice converts who tell us the innovation has profoundly changed the way they read-in fact, switching back and forth between reading and listening has become Their preferred way of experiencing stories, “said founder and CEO Donald Katz Audible. “And the feature has gotten easier and easier to use, as this exciting integration into Kindle apps attests.”

The Hunger Games Dominates Kindle’s Most-Highlighted Passages – Refinery29

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Best-seller lists tell us less about people’s reading habits than they do about book-buying habits. Everyone and their godmother might have a copy of The Secret , but how many actually got through all 200 pages of That watered-down will-to-power self-helpery?

Seeing how a book has bone used, However – its dog-eared pages, notes in the margins, under ragged lines – gives you a sense of how readers read, but only on a microcosmic scale

In the digital realm, pooling That data. is much easier. When you highlight a sentence or three on your Kindle, Amazon collects That information. The company published lists of the most highlighted books and the most highlighted passages , or the Latter Which is totally dominated by Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games trilogy, with Jane Austen and a couple motivational manuals thrown in, too. The results are none too surprising to anyone who’s spent hours in the psychic time-suck vortex or quotation websites.

That is, the solid majority say a whole lotta nothin ‘.

These passages are what I like to call obviisms – digestible little Adages That Reveal Precisely zero heretofore unknown truths – such as this bit from Catching Fire : “Because sometimes things happen to people and they’re not equipped to deal with them. “

That’s literally the most-highlighted sentence in all or Kindledom, with over 17,000 readers basking beneath the glowing wisdom of a sentence That amounts to” shit happens. ”

Another, from Mockingjay : “It takes at times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.” And, another: “We’re fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.” Mind = blown?

I’m not saying The Hunger

Games series are bad books. (Never read ‘em myself, but the movies are competently made.) As Helen Rosner recently wrote in defense of young-adult fiction, “It’s okay not to have your worldview shattered, to sometimes, in fact, have your thoughts and ideas reinforced It is entirely okay -., and this is the case no matter what section of the bookstore something was shelved in, up to and-including literary fiction – for a novel to be easy to read “

My issue is with the quotations themelves.. They might look nice on some Photoshopped macro passed around on Pinterest, but they do a disservice to the very books they Appear in by being reduced to banal, context-free platitudes.

Then there’s the sheer numbers Involved. The second most-highlighted Kindle passage is a famous one from Pride and Prejudice , but it’s got barely half the number of highlights as the Catching Fire ratio. That suggests a readership of people who are looking to havetheir worldview shattered, but without the messy business of stepping on broken glass.

At the risk of going meta, I have to quote here from AA Milne, the beloved author of Winnie the Pooh : “[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.”

This criticism goes for the classics, too. Number 35 on the Amazon list is from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes : “Life is infinitely stranger than anything All which the mind of man could invent.”

There is ook this painfully ironic gem from Colton Burpo’s Heaven Is for Real : “It is the opposite of ignorance – it is intellectual honesty: To be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.”

We can not forget to mention, from 7 Habits of Highly Effective People , Stephen R. Covey’s awkward paraphrasing or neurologist Viktor Frankl: “Between stimulus and response, man has the freedom to choose “

At least, rounding out the top 50, there is the endlessly quotable Oscar Wilde and his Picture of Dorian Grey .” Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. “

Truer words were never spoken.

Amazon.com ‘s New Smartphone Might Not Play Out Like the Kindle Fire – Motley Fool

Speculations abound

about the new smartphone from online retail giant Amazon.com ( NASDAQ: AMZN ), expected to launch on June 18, 2014 Some see it as a potential threat to Apple ‘s (NASDAQ :. AAPL ) iPhone, while others draw a corollary from the less-than-ringing success or Kindle Fire as a sign That the smartphone will not go very far, either.

However, drawing comparisons between tablets and smartphones is fundamen tally flawed, as the market dynamics for the two mobile devices are very different.

First-mover advantage
The concept of the tablet has been around for more than two decades, but failed to take off as a consumer product Earlier, Primarily Because early tablets were too heavy and Cumbersome to be comfortably held in the palm. Apple’s iPad was a revolutionary tablet, the first to gain wide acceptance by consumers.

Looking at the current market shares of the largest tablet vendors, a strong correlation exists between the date of release and the respective tablet market share . The early launchers (Apple and Samsung ) enjoy a considerably bigger share of the market Compared to the late comers (Amazon.com and Microsoft ). Android has leg steadily eating away at Apple’s tablet share, simply Because it has more device models That help it to exploit a wider range of price points. But Apple still remains the largest tablet vendor.

Apple had an 83% market share media tablet in 2011, but just 32.5% in the first quarter of the current fiscal year.

1Q14 Unit Shipments

1Q13 Unit Shipments

Vendor		1Q14 Market Share		1Q13 Market Share	Year-over-Year Growth
Apple	16.4	32.5%	19.5	40.2%	(16.1%)
Samsung	11.2	22.3%	8.5	17.5%	32%
ASUS	2.5	5%	2.6	5.4%	(2.8%)
Lenovo	2.1	4.1%	0.6	1.3%	224.3%
Amazon.com	1.0	1.9%	1.8	3.7%	(47.1%)

Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker (April, 2014)

The iPad enjoyed a virtual monopoly in the market for close to

one-and-a-half years, during the All which it Became the facto standard by All which every other tablet was later be measured. However, it would be unfair to not say that Apple and Samsung are simply enjoying first-mover advantage. Having a great product has Undoubtedly bone helpful, too.

Amazon.com ‘s Kindle Fire might be a good product, but it came to the market too late, when early leaders had already set the pace, Which Explains its under-performance. The same holds true for the Surface Tablet; as Microsoft must have learned by now, having brilliant people who can whiteboard solutions to complex problems algorithm does not always translate to success.

Market Saturation
Another very important reason why tablets and smartphones are not in the same league Relates to Their potential markets. Tablet sales are already showing signs of a decline, with global sales falling 5% in the first quarter of 2014. Longer tablet ownership cycles, and the popularity of phablets, are to blame for this trend.

The market for tablets is much narrower than That for smartphones. According to Gartner, seven smartphones will be sold for each tablet sold this year.

Developed markets are close to hitting a saturation point as far as smartphone and tablet sales are Concerned. Growth will, Therefore, Mainly come from emerging markets. This is great news for Amazon.com ‘s new smartphone, since it will likely be Android-based, and Android smartphones already dominate emerging markets. More About, Amazon.com has shown a willingness to sell its hardware at a small loss, as it did with the Kindle Fire, to gain traction.

The concept of first-mover advantage is less apparent when it comes to smartphones, as Windows Phone, the latest entrant into the smartphone market, has succeeded in gaining meaningful traction since its launch, and its share is growing at the fastest pace among all mobile operating systems.

The factthat Amazon.com ‘s smartphone is late to the game might, Therefore, not be a major deterrent to its growth.

Foolish bottom line
The factthat Amazon.com’ s tablet Remained sales have sub-par does not automatically meansthat the same will happen with its new smartphone. The market dynamics for smartphones are quite different from Those of tablets. The features of the new smartphone, and its price points, are likely to play a bigger role in Determining Whether the new phone becomes successful or not.

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Blurb makes books for Kindle – Block Book

blurb Blurb, the independent online publishing platform, announces to the Amazon Kindle platform. available to its books In addition, the publisher known to go with the Ingram Content Group for worldwide distribution of books. Cooperation to In combination with the new line of discounted books worldwide can sell their books at a good margin. Authors

Thanks Blurb’s free design tools and distribution for both books and magazines to publish digitally printed and sell through the Blurb Bookstore Amazon, the iBookstore or through the extensive sales of Ingram anyone can publish his own book. Blurb authors will now have the freedom to share their work across multiple platforms and formats and sell.

The Ingram Content Group is the largest distributor of physical and digital content worldwide. Thanks to a partnership with Ingram Blurb authors now offers the opportunity to continue their

book to make tens of thousands of online and offline retailers worldwide. In any country and in any language available This service is available. Since the end of July

In order to allow to increase the margin on their books Blurb authors introduce a new, discounted Trade & Pocket-line. The available book formats from this line are 5 × 8, 6 × 9 and 8 × 10 paper book formats. The Trade & Pocket-line to be executed in 89 g/m2 paper and via print-on-demand (POD) available from the end of July.

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Kindle: switching between reading and listening with one tap – z24

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Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Kindle: switching between reading and listening with one tap – z24

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Tolino Vision and Kindle Paperwhite 2 – Nighttime Reading Test – Good E-Reader (blog)

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7 things the most-highlighted Kindle passages tell us about American readers – Vox

Conventionally, the most common way of gauging the most popular books in America has been looking at the New York Times bestsellers list

But as we shift from paper to reading on screens, there’s an interesting new option:. Amazon’s lists of the most-highlighted passages and most-highlighted books on Kindles around the world.

When you read on a Kindle, you can highlight passages, the same way you might highlight text in a physical book. The passages you highlight are all collected in one place , accessible either on the reader or a computer.

But Amazon usefull collects data on what its readers must highlight. The most-ting results highlighted lists are a fascinating record of reading as a whole

There are some limitations to the data:. It’s only for people who read on Kindles, and use them for highlighting. The data is extremely skewed heavily towards American readers ( Amazon Is not saying Whether they include international data, but it looks like they do not). And s ome books do not lend them selves to highlighting quite as much, Which is why many or as Amazon’s best sellers do not appear on the lists.

But it’s usefull True that some books get bought and end up on bestseller lists, but Are not actually read – Whereas thesis lists are a terrific record of what we might nowadays call reader engagement. They reveal not just what books are read, but what part of books are read – and just tell us a little about what people are thinking about as they do Their highlighting.

Here are seven things the lists tell us about Americans reading today.

1) The Hunger Games is really, really popular

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Of the top 25 most-highlighted passages ever , a ridiculous 19 come from one of the books in the Hunger Games trilogy,-including numbers 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Additionally, the three books rank shaft 3, 8, and 13 in the list of most-highlighted books of all time.

Part of this is simply due to the factthat Kindles have only become widely-used over the past few years, and The Hunger Games leg has the most popular series during That Time. The books are usefull entirely free to anyone with an Amazon Prime account.

But Their dominance in the rankings is still pretty amazing. The single most-highlighted passage, from Catching Fire (“Because sometimes things happen to people and they’re not equipped to deal with them . “) was highlighted 17784 by Kindle users. No other passage from any book has gotten more than 9260 highlights.

Some of the 19 Hunger Games in the passages top 25 are important plot points, or are perhaps a little inspiring. But many are Clearly there Because they tap into adolescent ideas of romance.

The fifth-most highlighted passage or Kindle text of all time, for instance, highlighted by 8,500 readers, is “I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you, “Peeta replies.”

2) The Bible is usefull extremely popular on Kindle

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It might not be a huge shock That the Bible is the single most highlighted Kindle book of all time But It May Be a surprise That it’s usefull number 4, 6, 11, 16, and 18 -. Because different versions of it are listed separately. In addition to the six Bible versions, there are five other Christianity-oriented books in the top 25 most-highlighted books of all time.

This is mostly Because m illions of people read the Bible. But there’s the additional factor usefull That faith-related books are the child That many people like to highlight and return to Particular passages – more than, perhaps, a novel

I. nterestingly, three of the Bible versions share the exact same most-highlighted passage: Philippians 4:. 6-7

“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, All which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. “

3) A lot of people start classics – but probably do not finish them

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If you own a Kindle, many books published before 1923 are entirely free Because they’re in the public domain. And i f the the rankings are any indication, this leads many digital readers to pick them up anew and start highlighting.

Apart from the Hunger Games trilogy, classics like Pride and Prejudice and The Picture of Dorian Gray are almost the only other books to crack the top 25 most-highlighted passages.

At the same time, it’s not clear That

readers are getting all that far into them. Pride and Prejudice ‘s most-highlighted line is the very first one in the book:

“ It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”

The Picture of Dorian Gray ‘s comes from its first chapter too:

“I choose my friends for Their good looks , my acquaintances For their good characters, and my enemies For their good intellects. “

4) Readers want to be told what to do

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Self-help books are plentiful in the top 25 – it includes The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The 4-Hour Body , The 4-Hour Work Week and How To Win Friends and Influence People.

Like with the Bible, this might be Caused by the factthat self-help books the kind of books people like to highlight passages – they’re read for instruction, not entertainment. But what’s interesting is That the most-highlighted passages of novels and non-fiction books suggest That many people are reading them (or at least highlighting them) for instruction too.

From Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs :

“Pretend to be completely in control and people will Assume That you are.”

From Cutting for Stone:

“The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you do not. If you keep saying your slippers Are not yours, then you’ll that searching, you’ll that bitter, always feeling you were promised more Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny “

From The Help ..

“You gone have to ask yourself, Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?”

5) Modern novels are pretty scarce

Some cultural critics fear That the novel is dying a slow death in popular culture. Their fears will be confirmed by the books on thesis lists.

When you take away The Hunger Games , the top 50 most-highlighted books include just eight novels written since the start of the 20th century.

Apart from the previously-Mentioned Cutting for Stone and The Help , that group includes Atlas Shrugged, Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol , William P. Young’s The Shack , and the three books of Stieg Larson’s Millennium Series.

The most-highlighted passage That third book of the trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest is one of the most interesting on the list. Rather than an affirming mantra or Crucial part of the plot, it’s a reminder That 2,131 readers made to themelves thatthey might someday want to read a specific book offhand Mentioned in Part 4 :

“Amazons of Black Sparta by Stanley B. Alpern (C. Hurst & Co., London. 1998) “

6) Lots of med students are using Kindles to study

Amazon usefull published a separate list or recently heavily highlighted books . T hese are not the books with the most highlights, just the books that got a very high Proportion their fiduciary highlights recently (Amazon disc does not lose exactly what “recent” means).

This being June, the list is populated by lots of text books that Clearly highlighted as students Studied for exams.

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The textbooks cover a few different fields, but slant heavily towards Those used by med students. Looking At Their most-highlighted passages gives you an interesting window into what you need to know to be a doctor (or, at least, to pass a med school exam):

From Case Files Obstetrics and Gynecology, Third Edition :

“Another option would be a single progesterone level: levels greater than 25 ng / mL almost always indicate a normal intrauterine stationed, Whereas values less than 5 ng / mL Usually correlate with a nonviable stationed “

From <. em> Case Files Family Medicine, Second Edition

“Ultrasonography to Assess for abdominal aortic aneurysm is recommended (Level B) for men aged 65 to 75 years who have ever smoked “

And from

Kaplan Medical USMLE Master the Boards Step 3 :

“. osteomyelitis of the skull from pseudomonas in a patient with diabetes. “

7) George W. Bush has made his mark

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The 43rd president’s 2010 memoir Decision Points may not make lists of the best books ever written by presidents . But he’s the only president to have made it into the top 50 most highlighted books so far

Its most highlighted passage, with 2763 highlights:.

“Pray as if it all depends upon God, for it does. But work as if it all depends upon us, for it does. “

Update : this article previously did not mention the factthat the Hunger Games books are free to Amazon Prime account holders

Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8.9 LTE for $ 200 (certified refurb “like new”) today only – Android Authority

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Father’s Day is happening this Sunday, and if you still have not picked up a nice gift for your dad or grad, this Kindle Fire HD deal could be just right up your alley.

Amazon is offering a 32GB Kindle Fire HD 8.9 4G LTE for $ 199, a nice $ 100 off the list price of $ 299 . This is a “Certified Refurbished” units, meaning That it was pre-owned and Amazon had it refurbished and tested it to guarantee That it looks and works “like new.” Typically, refurbished devices have limited warranties, but for this Kindle Fire 8.9, Amazon offers a one-year warranty, just like on brand new devices.

Certified

Refurbished Kindle Fire HD 8.9 “4G LTE Wireless Tablet on Amazon

The Kindle Fire HD 8.9 LTE is one of the nicest tablets in its class, offering a crisp 8.9-inch LCD display, a dual-core processor clocked at 1.5GHz, Dolby Audio integration, fast dual-band Wi-Fi, and, of course, LTE for always-on connectivity.

The Kindle Fire runs a 8.9 LTE heavily customized version of Android, but chances are your dad does not care about it. If he does (kudos!), there are custom ROMs That you can throw on it to bring it to a stock-like state.

This deal goes for today only, so you better make up your mind soon.

If you’re looking for something cheaper, Amazon has another great deal today on SanDisk microSD cards. Check them out here .

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Blurb makes books for Kindle – Block Book

The Ingram Content Group is the largest distributor of physical and digital content worldwide. Thanks to a partnership with Ingram Blurb authors now offers the opportunity to continue their

book to make tens of thousands of online and offline retailers worldwide. In any country and in any language available This service is available. Since the end of July

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Blurb makes books for Kindle – Block Book

The Ingram Content Group is the largest distributor of physical and digital content worldwide. Thanks to a partnership with Ingram Blurb authors now offers the opportunity to continue their

book to make tens of thousands of online and offline retailers worldwide. In any country and in any language available This service is available. Since the end of July

About Marco den Engelsman (236 articles)

Blurb makes books for Kindle – Block Book

The Ingram Content Group is the largest distributor of physical and digital content worldwide. Thanks to a partnership with Ingram Blurb authors now offers the opportunity to continue

their book to make tens of thousands of online and offline retailers worldwide. In any country and in any language available This service is available. Since late July

to allow to increase the margin on their books Blurb authors introduce a new discounted Trade & Pocket-line. The available book formats from this line are 5 × 8, 6 × 9 and 8 × 10 paper book formats. The Trade & Pocket-line to be executed in 89 g/m2 paper and via print-on-demand (POD) available from the end of July.