Tag: Amazon Kindle
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Get your books more cheaply – possibly
I often link from this site to Amazon – the hope is that you might buy some of the things I talk about and then I get a (small) return which I can use to buy things I like at Amazon. It doesn’t work too well for me – I think I have made 26…
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Another (final) episode in the @AmazonKindle farce
In August I bought this book – Information and Coding Theory. As I was then in rural Norfolk I bought it for the Kindle. That was a mistake. The book is a good one – I would recommend it for those seeking to get to grips with the maths of information theory – an increasingly…
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Don’t buy a Kindle to read maths or computer science books
In the last twenty-four hours I have been forced to completely reassess my view of the Kindle. I have been reading a book (I won’t say what as I want to make the comments below anonymous) on a Kindle (the device, not an application – see below), and was resigned to the usual second class Kindle…
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More thoughts on the Kindle
I made pretty extensive use of my Kindle this last fortnight – and the ability to order a book and have it delivered more or less instantaneously was great when it came to getting hold of Information and Coding Theory. But a few gripes remain. It’s plain that publishers do not put the same effort…
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Surrendered to the Kindle
I wrote a piece a while back about why I wasn’t looking to buy a Kindle. Well, now I have got one. To be fair to myself I did not buy it – it was a present. I quite like it – especially when faced with a long haul jet journey (as later today). But…
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