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|  09-05-2011, 02:22 AM | #1 | 
| www.gospelebooks.net            Posts: 131 Karma: 200152 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: Kindle | 
				
				Free (Kindle) Buck-Naked Faith: A Brutally Honest Look at Stunted Christianity
			 
			
			Buck-Naked Faith: A Brutally Honest Look at Stunted Christianity Author(s): Eric Sandras Publisher: NavPress Price: FREE Free from Sept 5-12 Take off your designer, postmodern phoniness. Strip off your pretty-sounding words. Get your faith naked. Honest and gritty, Eric Sandras encourages a generation of believers to drop the layers of make-believe nonsense that stunts our spiritual growth. What emerges is a positive alternative to life-crushing counterfeit faiths many of us are trying our best to work through. To do this, there’s no secret handshake or magic formula, but there is vision and encouragement to take the risk and get dangerously real with God. He exposes the naked truth: We need to dress our lives with a real friendship with God and nothing else. | 
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|  09-08-2011, 06:24 PM | #3 | 
| Reader            Posts: 520 Karma: 24612 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Utrecht, NL Device: Kobo Aura 2, iPhone, iPad | 
			
			It's a terribly bad scan of a paper book. That makes it hard to read.
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|  09-08-2011, 09:40 PM | #4 | 
| Grand Sorcerer            Posts: 8,563 Karma: 8033155 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: TN, USA Device: kindle(all), nook, nookcolor, Sony, Kobo, epic, iphone, iPad, pc | 
			
			May be why it was quickly pulled on Kindle. Hope the epub was a better edition.
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|  09-09-2011, 02:41 AM | #5 | 
| Reader            Posts: 520 Karma: 24612 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Utrecht, NL Device: Kobo Aura 2, iPhone, iPad | 
			
			Also free at Barnes & Noble. This is a good edition.
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|  09-09-2011, 04:40 AM | #6 | |
| Wizard            Posts: 3,413 Karma: 13369310 Join Date: May 2008 Location: Launceston, Tasmania Device: Sony PRS T3, Kobo Glo, Kindle Touch, iPad, Samsung SB 2 tablet | Quote: 
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|  09-09-2011, 10:48 AM | #7 | 
| Reader            Posts: 520 Karma: 24612 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Utrecht, NL Device: Kobo Aura 2, iPhone, iPad | |
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|  09-09-2011, 03:06 PM | #8 | 
| Zealot            Posts: 127 Karma: 2843950 Join Date: Sep 2011 Device: Kindle Keyboard (K3) | 
			
			LOL some pretty horrible artifacts from the conversion process. Is that an actual Kindle font (looks almost like stenciling), or images of words or letters? I mean, the text scales and wraps, but sometimes half a letter will be separated by a wide space from the other half of the same letter. Having said that, it's good reading and as I got immersed in it, I stopped noticing the terribad characters. Last edited by cHex; 09-09-2011 at 03:12 PM. | 
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|  09-09-2011, 03:41 PM | #9 | 
| Grand Sorcerer            Posts: 8,563 Karma: 8033155 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: TN, USA Device: kindle(all), nook, nookcolor, Sony, Kobo, epic, iphone, iPad, pc | 
			
			Topaz books don't use a built-in font, every character is shown as a scanned font image (one reason the files tend to be much larger). Stupid to have a topaz file at Amazon, if they have a clean epub that could be converted in about 5 minutes (even ignoring any tweaking, the result will be better than a topaz doc in most cases). | 
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|  09-09-2011, 05:47 PM | #10 | 
| Wizard            Posts: 3,117 Karma: 9269999 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: UK Device: Sony- T3, PRS650, 350, T1/2/3, Paperwhite, Fire 8.9,Samsung Tab S 10.5 |  Errr.... | 
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|  09-09-2011, 06:08 PM | #11 | 
| Grand Sorcerer            Posts: 5,187 Karma: 25133758 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: SF Bay Area, California, USA Device: Pocketbook Touch HD3 (Past: Kobo Mini, PEZ, PRS-505, Clié) | 
			
			I ran into some problems looking it up at Amazon. The two links earlier in the thread got 404 errors; a search turned up the paperback ($12.99 new; used copies start at $.01 + shipping) and a *separate*, not listed with the other, Kindle edition--with a publishing date of today. (Digital list price $9.99; currently marked down to $7.99.) The author page for Eric Sandras lists two books (Buck Naked Faith & Plastic Jesus) in paperback only; no Kindle editions. I suspect the Kindle edition is a bootleg that keeps getting pulled. Also: the B&N version lists the author as "PhD Sandras," not "Eric Sandras, PhD." Last edited by Elfwreck; 09-09-2011 at 06:12 PM. Reason: Note about B&N version | 
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|  09-09-2011, 08:09 PM | #12 | ||
| Wizzard            Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia | Quote: 
 This happened to me once when I contacted CS about a non-indie book which was part of a time-limited "event" sale for a significant number of non-typo dropped spaces between words and sent in a list of locations where said errors occurred in the hopes that would get it fixed sooner. They pulled the book immediately claiming that was standard procedure for them and didn't bother putting it back until the sale was well over. Still no idea whether they've bothered to fix the missing spaces because they didn't notify me like they said they would, but it's back in their catalogue. Quote: 
 Anyway, it's also free @ Sony (available to Canadians). | ||
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|  09-10-2011, 06:23 AM | #13 | 
| Wizard            Posts: 3,413 Karma: 13369310 Join Date: May 2008 Location: Launceston, Tasmania Device: Sony PRS T3, Kobo Glo, Kindle Touch, iPad, Samsung SB 2 tablet | |
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|  09-10-2011, 06:30 AM | #14 | |
| The Dank Side of the Moon            Posts: 35,930 Karma: 119747553 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Denver, CO Device: Kindle2 & PW, Onyx Boox Go6 | Quote: 
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|  09-12-2011, 09:11 AM | #15 | 
| Guru            Posts: 985 Karma: 4567263 Join Date: May 2009 Location: The End Of The Earth Device: Several | 
			
			$7.99 now at B&N. I guess their free offer didn't run through the 12th.  =/
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