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The Dear Author site has Sandra Schwab’s positive review of a new Cybook e-book reader.
So far I’ve read 1½ books on the Cybook and I have to say it makes for very comfortable reading indeed, I haven’t experienced any sort of eyestrain whatsoever: the screen isn’t really white, but more grayish in colour (like a [...]



Crime fiction. But if you’re looking for neat plotting or some nicely paced violence this book is not for you. In fact none of Constantine’s novels will provide what you are looking for.
What this writer has done over a series of novels is build a fictional world, Rocksburg, in western Pennsylvania’s coal mining district. Police [...]



A new site called Books in my Phone could prove useful to those of us who don’t want to carry around an expensive e-reader.
All titles are free to download and install on your phone. You can browse the available books by Author or Title; or you can pull up lists of classics through their classification: [...]






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