Adam Shields

Review: Amazon Paperwhite Leather Cover

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Amazon Kindle Paperwhite Leather CoverI am not a big fan of covers for kindles.  In general I like to use them without a cover.  But the most common problem with kindle is a cracked screen and covers really can help with that.

Over the next three days I am going to review the three covers I have used recently.

I do not now own a Kindle Paperwhite.  But twice in the last two months I have helped a friend replace a broken kindle with a new Paperwhite.  That has given me several weeks to play with the Paperwhite and try out the covers.

The official Amazon Paperwhite Leather cover is a totally different type of cover from the covers that Amazon made for the first three generations of Kindle.  Instead of the elastic corners of the first two generations and the prongs of the third generation, this cover uses a rubberized plastic that is form fitted to the size of the kindle.  (In the picture to the side the outer line around the kindle is the rubberized plastic holder.)

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Bookwi.se Reader Survey

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Bookwi.se has grown significantly this year.  The average daily visits to the site are six times higher than last year.  And in the last couple months RSS and email views are about three times that of the visits to the actual site.  In order to make Bookwi.se the best site it can be I would … Read more

Misguided Copyright Protection

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I saw a quick post at BoingBoing today that linked to a short article on the Atlantic.  Both were centered around this shocking graphic of Amazon books sold by decade. A law professor from University of Illinois prepared this chart. What it is showing is that the expanding copyright has actually limited the sale of … Read more

When I Was a Child I Read Books by Marilynne Robinson

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When I Was a Child I Read Books: EssaysMost of the time I finish books that I start.  Sometimes it is months for me to finally work through a book.  But I usually do eventually finish.

But this week I stopped reading two books. I was bored and just didn’t want to struggle through these books that were no longer interesting.  I had already given them a good trial.  I was about half way into both books (11 hours of audio between the two of them).

I picked up When I Was a Child I Read Books at the same time I picked up Gilead.  I started When I Was a Child first.  And pretty quickly switched to Gilead.  I loved Gilead.  It is a wonderful novel written a lot like a memoir.  It is honest and real and a bit sad but still hopeful for the idea that a pastor can still make a difference in the world.

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