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Kindle Test

Posted by linkmeister on 5 November 2016, 8:14 pm

Before I went to the reunion in Northern Virginia I bought a Kindle Fire HD 6, which has a 6-inch display screen. I thought that would be big enough to read comfortably while on airplanes. It turns out I read all of Simon Winchester’s “A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the …

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