|  09-19-2017, 09:02 PM | #556 | |
| Wizard            Posts: 1,638 Karma: 28483498 Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Ottawa Canada Device: Sony PRS-T3, Galaxy (Aldiko, Kobo app) | Quote: | |
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|  09-20-2017, 02:54 PM | #557 | 
| Wizzard            Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia | 
			
			X-link to the DRM-free thread for a new Humble Bundle: Humble Book Bundle Treat Yourself presented by Callisto Media features assorted non-fiction cookbooks, health/DIY fitness, mindfulness/New Age, and sex advice. Also, you can still get the Humble Book Bundle Land a Tech Job for Dummies® presented by Wiley whose contents should be self-explanatory (although it does also contain a number of general job interviewing/career skills guides which may be useful for non-tech purposes). | 
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|  09-25-2017, 06:57 PM | #558 | 
| Wizard            Posts: 3,168 Karma: 37800000 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, UK Device: Kindle Keyboard 3G, Kindle Fire 2, NOOK ST, Kindle HDX, Fire 7" | 
			
			Free The Last Revolution: 1688 and the Creation of the Modern World by Patrick Dillon The last successful invasion of England; mobs burning Catholic chapels; one King driven from his palace by night while another rode in at the head of a foreign army – the events of winter 1688 were among the most dramatic in our history. The settlement which followed would place England decisively on the path to freedom, toleration, parliamentary democracy – and empire. Few moments have done so much to shape this country as the ‘Glorious Revolution’. Patrick Dillon was born in London. His first book of history for grown-ups, The Much-Lamented Death of Madam Geneva, was a history of the eighteenth-century gin craze. This was his next book, a history of the Glorious Revolution that combined political events with the revolution's social background and changes in economics and science. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M01QM9T/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01M01QM9T/ https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01M01QM9T/ | 
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|  09-26-2017, 02:02 AM | #559 | 
| Evangelist            Posts: 413 Karma: 1477913 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Netherlands Device: KA1, Galaxy S8, Galaxy Tab A 10.1, ReMarkable | |
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|  09-27-2017, 04:23 PM | #560 | 
| Wizzard            Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia | 
			
			X-link to the DRM-free thread for a new Humble Bundle: Humble Book Bundle Hacking Reloaded presented by No Starch Press contains DIY books mostly on the subject of hacking (both how-to and how-to prevent security breaches), and mostly for dedicated computer programming/network stuff, but also a title for modifying your car at the $1 level, if you're interested. Last week's Humble Book Bundle Treat Yourself presented by Callisto Media with self-care cookbooks, fitness/sex advice manuals, and New Age-y wellness guides is still available. | 
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|  10-01-2017, 07:57 PM | #561 | 
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|  10-01-2017, 08:18 PM | #562 | 
| Zealot            Posts: 100 Karma: 617672 Join Date: Jan 2017 Device: Kobo Glo | 
				
				Daughters of the Samurai - $1.99
			 
			
			Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back by Janice P. Nimura is $1.99 at US Kindle and Kobo. Spoiler: 
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|  10-06-2017, 06:06 AM | #563 | |
| Genre Jumper            Posts: 1,070 Karma: 11070900 Join Date: Dec 2015 Device: Kindle paperwhite | Quote: 
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|  10-06-2017, 08:42 PM | #564 | 
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			A scathing indictment of our ancestors for their refusal to recycle. Available at Amazon.com. C. S. Lewis The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature for $0.99 | 
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|  10-06-2017, 09:07 PM | #565 | 
| Wizard            Posts: 3,168 Karma: 37800000 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, UK Device: Kindle Keyboard 3G, Kindle Fire 2, NOOK ST, Kindle HDX, Fire 7" | 
			
			Not so, some freebies are worth less than they cost. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075RTL3W5/ The text would have been more understandable if Google translate had been used. The ingredients make sense, nothing else does. Fry pan the onion and pilfer in the heat until liquid cheese seethe fry till translucent sum potatoes, garlic, wine salt and cheese seethe sum parsley and ham combine through complete compose 21 minutes the potatoes are cutter treat. == Also, the Look Inside sample stops short just before the above text. See? Last edited by Little.Egret; 10-06-2017 at 09:09 PM. Reason: Add remark | 
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|  10-07-2017, 01:14 PM | #566 | 
| eBook Enthusiast            Posts: 85,560 Karma: 93980341 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6 | 
			
			That does look awfully like machine translation. Clearly "sum" has been used in place of "add"   . | 
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|  10-07-2017, 01:28 PM | #567 | 
| Wizard            Posts: 1,806 Karma: 13399999 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: US Device: Nook Simple Touch, Kobo Glo HD, Kobo Clara HD, Kindle 4 | 
			
			Not necessarily.  When I was in college in the 70s, one of my professors told of a mathematics book where the mathematics term "field" was mistranslated everywhere to the word meadow.
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|  10-09-2017, 07:37 PM | #568 | 
| Wizard            Posts: 3,168 Karma: 37800000 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, UK Device: Kindle Keyboard 3G, Kindle Fire 2, NOOK ST, Kindle HDX, Fire 7" | 
			
			UK Deal of the Day Guns, Germs And Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13000 Years by Jared Diamond 99p Recommended https://www.amazon.co.uk/Guns-Germs-...dp/B00DQ8GDV8/ | 
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|  10-09-2017, 10:25 PM | #569 | |
| Almost legible            Posts: 1,457 Karma: 4611110 Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: In a high desert, CA Device: Galaxy Note 9, Galaxy Tab A (2017), Likebook P78 | Quote: 
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|  10-10-2017, 07:26 AM | #570 | 
| lost in my e-reader...            Posts: 8,185 Karma: 66191692 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: sunny southern California, USA Device: Android phone, Sony T1, Nook ST Glowlight, Galaxy Tab 7 Plus | 
			
			Ditto!  Also love Diamond's Collapse, which goes on sale from time to time as well, and is equally thought provoking.  I live near UCLA, where Diamond is a prof, and have had the chance to hear him give a lecture in person - very engaging, as you would expect.   | 
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