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Sunday, December 6, 2009

Poking the weekend reminder on free books - Update



My Bondage and My Freedom

    By Frederick Douglass, 1818-1895 (Author)

        $0.00 Kindle edition     7 user reviews, all 5-star

(Hardcover, 2008 - $24.95       Paperback, 2005 - $6.95)


        From one user review, by James Hiller:
" Frederick Douglass originally penned his book as a response to people's accusations that someone as articulate and composed as he couldn't possibly be a former slave.  With that goal in mind, Douglass wrote his memoirs, in a straightforward, powerful way.  In the book, he painfully and honestly documents the path his early life took; the memories of being owned, how slaves coped during these times, and how he managed to pull himself out of it all. "

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9 comments:

  1. Batman Jr.December 6, 2009 at 8:18:00 AM PST

    Andrys,

    Thanks for this heads-up!

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  2. UnknownDecember 6, 2009 at 2:50:00 PM PST

    Most welcome, Batman :-)

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  3. newwineDecember 6, 2009 at 5:00:00 PM PST

    Thanks! I've just downloaded this. Love having it on my laptop - I have it in an omnibus edition of African-American writing which is cumbersome to handle!

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  4. UnknownDecember 6, 2009 at 5:09:00 PM PST

    newwine,
    I'd never read it but it goes high on my reading list (which is overwhelming though). Great idea re putting it on for Kindle for PC viewing.

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  5. Batman Jr.December 6, 2009 at 8:37:00 PM PST

    Interesting - The linked Table of Contents for this book is active on the Kindle For PC app., but not on the Kindle itself. When I try to move the cursor to a chapter link on the Kindle, it encloses the entire chapter info. on the screen in a box, and the text at the bottom of the screen reads, “Move the 5-way to the right to begin panning the table, or click to place the cursor within the table”. Moving the 5-way doesn’t have any effect that I can detect, however, nor does clicking. This is the only book that I’ve noticed this difference between PC and Kindle, so far.

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  6. UnknownDecember 6, 2009 at 8:58:00 PM PST

    Batman,
    They did something unusual with this one. It's a block all right, but they have a message at the status bar on the bottom that says:

    ===
    "Move the 5-way to the right to begin panning the table, or click to place the cursor within the table"
    ===

    The first just takes us to the "LIFE as a FREEMAN" and doesn't prepare us for "panning" the table.

    The second works. If you click on the 5-way while the box/table is framed, then your cursor will go into the box and you can cursor down it and click on a link to get to the right chapter.

    I should probably add that...

    Thanks for the heads-up.

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  7. UnknownDecember 6, 2009 at 9:00:00 PM PST

    Oh, I didn't get to the 2nd half of your note before typing my response. For me, the click on does work -- but you have to move the cursor to the right or down... and the hand to indicate a link comes up.

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  8. Batman Jr.December 6, 2009 at 9:19:00 PM PST

    That did it! Gracias!

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  9. UnknownDecember 6, 2009 at 9:25:00 PM PST

    Great !

    I -will- add something to the main post later... Many thanks.

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