I have a Kindle 3 which I bought in 2011 and it still works despite the battery degradation. It can’t handle having more than 100 books on it anymore but that’s a different story.
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I’ve still got my first one in a draw somewhere, case had a fold out light on the top which worked but it’s been collecting dust ever since I replaced it with a Paperwhite.
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Yep for any dense book like textbooks, computer books etc I either use my ipad or the PC, only use the kindle for novels.
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100!!!
That’s marvelous - I mean how much more reading does someone need when on the go 
By the way, @LordOdysseus I think I will be adding that Titan book to the Reading List, sounds pretty fascinating
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Yeah these are weird times (most learning I’m doing is distanced from home) but just the thought of not having to lug around a ton of textbooks, so worth it
Not to mention, to be able to search the books too has made some assignments so much easier to do as well!
History of American Literature
by Reuben Post Halleck, M.A., L.L.D
First printed in 1911. Not certain of the print date of the book itself.
The copyright page has this printed on it:
Copyright, 1911, BY
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY.
ENTERED AT STATIONERS’ HALL, LONDON.
HALLECK’S HIST. AM LIT.
W.P. 33
"Virginia’s foes
To whom, for secret crimes, just vengeance owes
Deserved plagues, dreading their just desert,
Corrupted death by Paracelsian art,
Him to destroy…
Our arms, though ne’er so strong,
Will want the aid of his commanding tongue,
Which conquered more than Caesar."
Monsieur le chat.
Mister the cat, yes.
https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bébert
Bébert (cat)
Famous cat from Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
Bébert is a famous cat of Louis-Ferdinand Céline . Because of its important presence in the author’s work, first in Féerie pour une autre fois and Normance , then in the German trilogy ( From one castle to another , North , Rigodon ), and from its relation particular with his master, he is often considered a character in his own right. He is also one of the most famous cats in French literature , his direct role in novels contributing to his fame [ 1 ] .
Summary
History
In 1935, actor Robert Le Vigan , Céline’s friend, bought a Samaritaine cat for 39 francs for his wife. Gradually abandoned, the animal was picked up in 1942 by Lucette Almansor , the writer’s wife, while they lived in Montmartre . Paris occupied, Céline had the German authorities castrated and issued a certificate of good health in order to be able to keep the animal.
Céline did not have the German authorities castrated , which, not thanks to Google traduction, is misinterpreted as such by it.
Rather, au contraire:
Paris occupied, Céline had the German authorities castrate the cat and establish a certificate of good health in order to be able to keep the animal.
When the couple fled the capital in 1944 to take refuge in Sigmaringen alongside the dignitaries of the Vichy regime, they take the cat with them. The latter will then experience the crossing of Germany in collapse that the writer and his wife travel in their exile, to Denmark. When Céline returns to France, and settles in Meudon, Bébert is still with him. He died there in 1952 aged 17.
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(Vieilli) (France) Nickname sometimes given to people named Robert or (more rarely) Albert or even Bertrand.
(Vieilli) = Archaic, old.
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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vieilli
Adjective[edit]
vieilli ( feminine singular vieillie , masculine plural vieillis , feminine plural vieillies )
Further reading[edit]
- “vieilli” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé ( The Digitized Treasury of the French Language ).
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https://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/vieilli
− En partic. Vieillir en subissant plus ou moins les assauts du temps et les altérations physiques et morales propres à la vieillesse. Vieillir bien, mal. Le duc de Guermantes, dont j’avais admiré, en le regardant assis sur une chaise, combien il avait peu vieilli bien qu’il eût tellement plus d’années que moi (Proust, Temps retr. , 1922, p. 1047).
- In particular : - Aging more or less undergoing the onslaught of time and the physical and moral alterations specific to old age. Aging well, badly. The Duc de Guermantes, whom I had admired, looking at him seated on a chair, how little he had aged although he was so much older than me (Proust, Temps retr., 1922, p. 1047).
It is,indeed, fascinating if you ask me. In the book the author tells how Rockefeller rose to power and how he justified everything he did.
I’m still at 19% for three reasons:
- The book has so many pages.
- I haven’t read these last two days.
- I’m a slow reader.
I was recommended to read The Dresden Files. They told me it is like Harry Potter, but for grown-ups.
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hi, I just started to read the lord of the rings:the two towers. its good.
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This post : )
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I was secretly reading the first book in The Dresden Files series, just to abandon it in case it was not my cup of tea. It was surprisingly GOOD! Few minutes ago I finished the 384 page book.
With the fiction slot freed up, I’ll decide what to read next.
I’m still reading Titan.
I have yet to read that and the third book. Perhaps that could be the next fiction book I read next? Who knows?
Stock indexes.
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I started reading Jim Butcher’s 2nd book in The Dresden Files series: Fool Moon. I’m 11% through it.
The book is about the protagonist of the book, Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden, trying to find the werewolf gang that goes around killing random people at full moon. The concept sounds promising to me. It may be even better than the first book(which was very good despite people who recommend me telling it picks up after the second book).
What are you guys reading?
I finished Fool Moon and will decide tomorrow on what to read as fantasy. I don’t want to be burnt out from reading too many TDF novels yet.
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THE FIFTH
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FOR PAPERBACK
Copyright © 1983, 1984 by Edward A. Feigenbaum and
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Pamela McCorduck
To H.P.N. and J.F.T.
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The New Wealth of Nations
PART TWO
It’s Not Just the
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Experts
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PART FOUR
The Japanese
Fifth Generation
PART FIVE
The Nations
PART SIX
The American Response
PART SEVEN
Epilog, or
It Is Hard to Predict,
Especially the Future
Appendices
A. _ _ Generic Categories of
_ _ _ _ _Knowledge Engineering Applications
B. _ _ Selected Experimental
_ _ _ _ _and Operational Expert Systems
C. _ _ Worldwide Artificial Intelligence Activity
D. _ _ Fifth Generation Computer R&D Themes
E. _ _ Glossary
F. _ _ Notes
G. _ _ Books for Further Reading
Index _ _ _ _ 326
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Right now I’m rereading Immanuel Kant’s Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals(on a Supposed Right to Lie because of Philanthropic Concerns) .
Thou shall not lie, because it is not moral because of Philanthropic Concerns,
and because it is not right to be immoral.
Also, a lot of the legal moral is not as moral as it can be, and it is also not expected to be the most moral.
It is at least supposed to be more moral than more immoral morals are.
Try Ready Player One by Ernest Clune, it’s my favorite book. I’m currently on Leviathan Wakes by James S. A Corey
Your emails.
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hold up wait a minute what the
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