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My pleasure, Kansas.Thanks for spotting this, chellers, and telling us about it!
Good to know Jay. I was wondering. I just ordered it. Thank you for the recommendation.a very good book.......
Thanks for posting chellers.
You are welcome, Littlestown. Always happy to find a bargain.Thanks for posting chellers.
Hmmm... According to other sources (such as Robert O'Connell's recent Fierce Patriot), he resisted until the end. Somewhere (maybe O'Connell, but I'm not sure) I read that Sherman was not baptized until he was no longer conscious.I remember enjoying this book when I read it (a long time ago). I also remember being taken aback by the author's assertion that W.T. Sherman converted to Catholicism on his deathbed.
Hmmm... According to other sources (such as Robert O'Connell's recent Fierce Patriot), he resisted until the end. Somewhere (maybe O'Connell, but I'm not sure) I read that Sherman was not baptized until he was no longer conscious.
I am having a problem with my kindle in that I seem to feed it well. Now I will likely buy another book tomorrow. Even new books come in at something like 53% of the hardcover book price. Like I say the kindle is really easy to dust too. I do love having a book but I have the equivalent of two decent size boxes of books in my kindle and there is plenty of room for more.
Lee, I'm with you. And as I have pretty painful back and neck problems, I appreciate more and more the light weight and the fact that I can prop it up, enlarge the print, and read till I fall asleep...and then it turns itself off. Now if it would just jump onto the night stand! And as you say.....no dust!
I'll be traveling with my Kindle soon... to Gettysburg! Appropriately, I've got Searching for George Gordon Meade to keep me company in the airport and on the plane. And since I never seem to be able to read just one thing at a time, I've also been reading Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson by his wife, Anna, and Melville's Moby Dick (written in 1851). My Kindle's also loaded with complete works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, including his Civil War poems, and a "Dover Thrift Editions" anthology of Civil War poems and short stories by various authors.Very true and it is great to travel with and every time I go to the barber shop and have to wait my kindle makes the time fly. We have an excellent WiFi signal at the office and I a getting very proficient at "buy with one click."<g>
I would have bet an acre of watermelons to a box of raisins that I would have been a traditional hard cover book kind of guy but I am totally loving my kindle. I like reading in bed without any lamps on too.
I'll be traveling with my Kindle soon... to Gettysburg! Appropriately, I've got Searching for George Gordon Meade to keep me company in the airport and on the plane. And since I never seem to be able to read just one thing at a time, I've also been reading Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson by his wife, Anna, and Melville's Moby Dick (written in 1851). My Kindle's also loaded with complete works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, including his Civil War poems, and a "Dover Thrift Editions" anthology of Civil War poems and short stories by various authors.
Your students are so lucky to have you!Yeah, just try toting all that stuff with you on a plane. I have to put in a plug here for National Geographic on Kindle. Not only do the photos come alive--well, they really do. I subscribe and use it in class. Almost every issue has some kind of amazing video, time-lapse photography of nature (the water lily in Africa was AMAAAAAZING!)....something I can share. It's already loaded, so no waiting, no skipping.....and what books have music included? I can play my favorite music while I read, watch videos.....and it fits in my purse, charges in the car.
And the light--at night when we travel to away games, I take mine and read to stay awake and keep Neal awake while he drives I've also found--depending on how my eyes are at the time, I change the color settings and font, and it helps (getting old is for the birds).
Your students are so lucky to have you!
You must have a Kindle Fire. Mine's the "old-fashioned" Kindle, just black-and-white, with the little keyboard at the bottom that I use for underlining things and making comments. (I mark up my Kindle books almost as much as I do my paper ones!)