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View Poll Results: March 2011 Mobile Read Book Club Vote | |||
Tunnel People by Teun Voeten | 8 | 12.70% | |
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone by Martin Dugard | 5 | 7.94% | |
Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne | 2 | 3.17% | |
Progress and Poverty by Henry George | 2 | 3.17% | |
Orthodoxy by GK Chesterton | 11 | 17.46% | |
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | 15 | 23.81% | |
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand | 10 | 15.87% | |
Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal by Rob Riemen | 2 | 3.17% | |
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff | 8 | 12.70% | |
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03-02-2011, 11:29 AM | #1 |
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March 2011 Mobile Read Book Club Vote
Help up choose a book as the March 2011 eBook for the Mobile Read Book Club. The poll will be open for 5 days. We will start the discussion thread for this book on April 20th. Select from the following books.
* [3] Tunnel People by Teun Voeten [lene1949, lila55, nimblem] Inkmesh search Spoiler:
* [3] Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone by Martin Dugard [snipenekkid, sun surfer, seagull] Inkmesh search May not be available internationally Spoiler:
* [3] Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne [voodooblues, WT Sharpe, obs20] Inkmesh search May not be available internationally Spoiler:
* [3] Progress and Poverty by Henry George [VioletVal, WT Sharpe, beppe] Inkmesh search Spoiler:
* [3] - Orthodoxy by GK Chesterton [GA Russell, issybird, jgaiser] Free in MR Library - upload by Patricia Clark | mobi/PRC | lrf | LIT | IMP | ePub upload by weatherwax | Also @ Project Gutenberg Spoiler:
* [3] The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin [VioletVal, Hamlet53, jgaiser] Free in the MR Library - uploaded by RWood - Eliot, Charles W. (editor), Harvard Classics 01: Franklin/Woolman/Penn mobi/PRC | IMP | lrf Spoiler:
Free in the MR Library uploaded by weatherwax ePub Spoiler:
* [3] Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand [edbro, JSWolf, JaneD] Inkmesh search May not be available internationally Spoiler:
* [3] Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal by Rob Riemen [beppe, Latinandgreek, SameOldStory] Inkmesh search Spoiler:
* [3] Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff [JaneD, voodoo_pepperweb, Latinandgreek] Inkmesh search May not be available internationally Spoiler:
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03-02-2011, 05:28 PM | #2 |
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Even though it probably won't win, "Progress and Poverty" is a public domain book and can be downloaded as a PDF at http://www.henrygeorge.org/pcontents.htm . I have the PDF on my Kindle. It has a decent sized font so it shouldn't be a problem for most people to read it on their readers. It doesn't have any hyperlinks, but the dictionary lookup and notetaking work on it.
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03-02-2011, 10:36 PM | #3 |
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As I mentioned in the other thread, Progress and Poverty is also available at the Online Library of Liberty and at the Google eBookstore. Both sites have epub and PDF versions, and the OLL also has HTML versions.
Here are the links: http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php....php&title=328 http://books.google.com/ebooks?id=Cj...utput=acs_help |
03-02-2011, 11:36 PM | #4 |
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I'm torn on whether or not to vote this month. On the one hand, I am very interested in the book I would choose, but on the other, I'm already reading 2 other books. Plus, I have at least two more I'm dying to get to, therefore, leaving little to no time for this month's selection.
I think I'll vote, as a JIC, and then see what happens. |
03-03-2011, 03:02 AM | #5 |
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Go for The Tunnel People.. At least that's available for people outside USA...
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03-03-2011, 07:13 PM | #6 |
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I dont believe that I will vote either. I want to read them all, except the Ben Franklin book. About a year or so ago, I read either this or another recent bio of him. Very complicated man, lots of surprises to me.
I recommend it, but just personally don't need to read another bio of him. |
03-04-2011, 02:19 AM | #7 |
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Wow an author that shares my fairly rare surname......oops sorry OT!
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03-04-2011, 09:08 AM | #8 | |
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If the book you want is not selected no reason not to startup a thread dedicated to that book for this month. It's not a measuring stick here to see whose is bigger, the idea is just to read something and given the wide range of great titles this time around, I'm pretty sure others would be more than happy to participate in a thread for any of the unselected titles even titles which are not in the pole but were recommended. |
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03-04-2011, 09:29 AM | #9 |
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Go for Unbroken. It's supposed to be a really good book. I voted for it.
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03-04-2011, 09:39 AM | #10 |
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The voting seems pretty comptitive thi time. No clear runaway yet. I like that tension.
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03-04-2011, 09:47 AM | #11 | |
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I already put a hold on American Prometheus (didn't make the final cut) at my local library. Cleopatra: A Life is on my to do list as well. That and The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is already loaded onto my Sony reader. One can never read too many books. |
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03-04-2011, 10:12 AM | #12 |
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I think you'll enjoy American Prometheus. It's a very nice read. I am actually addicted to biographies of all the great minds of that era. The other title I recommened about Einstein was one of the best on him I've read to date. But American Prometheus has sort of a "Beautiful Mind" insight into what made Oppie, well, Oppie.
I too have added Cleopatra to my list. That is a book I might never have come across and I look forward to eventually reading it as well. I've started The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin several times and never stayed with it. It's not because it's poorly written or anything like that, just I really was in the mood for something different every time I've begun the thing. By all accounts it's a interesting read. OT WARNING: If you end up enjoying American Prometheus there is another book that is really about the Institute for Advanced Studies in NJ but is titled "Who Got Einstein's Office" that's really a nice read. The first half really is about good old Albert but the second half is more about the Institute, it's internal politics (and there are ALWAYS politics in education and science) and it's evolution away from the pure sciences and into some experimental/applied stuff. But most of all it's a book about an institution which really gets no mention at all outside academia but has contributed an amazing amount to human knowledge over the decades it's been around. A funny part was as the place is supposed to be just for pure science, meaning theory only nothing applied, then should computers be allowed? And believe it or not, a compelling argument exists in both directions. Oh, if you watch the movie loosely involving Einstein called I.Q. the institute would have been The Institute for Advanced Studies but at that time they would NEVER would have allowed an experimental lab such as the psychology lab shown in the movie. |
03-04-2011, 11:47 AM | #13 |
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This month's list are all very interesting. Whatever the results of the vote, I'll be probably be adding a number of them to my reading list. I'm currently working my way through one of the most hefty (over 500 pages on my iPad at smallest font) non-fictions I've read in a while, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. Need to finish it before I start this month's book.
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03-04-2011, 12:21 PM | #14 |
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Vote for Orthodoxy. We can start a nice discussion and have it locked by the second page.
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03-04-2011, 01:18 PM | #15 |
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Just a quick note:
Unbroken is available at Waterstones in the UK. So no reason for those of you in the UK not to vote for it. |
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