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The Other Villains Of Ebooks: The Business

In the past two weeks, the publishing company Penguin decided to ban libraries from lending ebooks and the US Authors Guild decried Amazon’s lending library as a breach of contract.

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Birthday Musings

This year, I got a birthday gift a few weeks early. At work, I was promoted to the top most technical position in the company.
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Schooling and Education: Part 3

The first winter rain has come and gone. Children in this country and in many parts of the Western Hemisphere are settled in to a new year of schooling. I was reading Barbara Kingsolver’s “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle” when I ran across this passage:
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Ebooks, Take Two

Overdrive. The application that has helped me enjoy ebooks and added fuel to my angst about our future.
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In The Shadows

It was twilight when I got out of the car with Maya in the parking lot of a local grocery store. There was a woman standing in the shadows, slowly rocking side to side on her feet. I couldn’t see her face clearly but I knew instantly who she was.

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