The Kindle Chronicles TKC 497 My Father William and Grandson James
My father William and grandson James
Interview starts at 17:43 and ends at 42:24
“I’ve been writing a realistic fictional narrative for my class as an assignment. There are certain phrases in [Kindle] books that have been highlighted 300 times or a thousand times. I try to make my phrases be like those phrases, because I’ve gotten to know what are the powerful phrases that people are going to highlight.”
News
Amazon press release announcing Prime Now delivery from Whole Foods - February 8, 2018
“Amazon Finally Gets Serious About Whole Foods” by Phil Lempert at Forbes - February 8, 2018
“Amazon Prime to offer two-hour Whole Foods delivery” by The Associated Press at New York Post - February 8, 2018
“Amazon looks to put bookstore in Cherry Creek” by Thomas Gounley at BusinessDen - February 5, 2018
The Hermitage Bookshop in Denver
“Amazon to Launch Delivery Service That Would Vie With FedEx, UPS” by Laura Stevens at The Wall Street Journal - February 9, 2018
“Amazon passes Samsung for 2nd place in worldwide tablet shipments” by Taylor Soper at GeekWire - February 5, 2018
Tech Tip
Readwise recommended in Cool Tools
Reading Basics, including View Your Reading Progress
Interview with my father William and my grandson James
Dad and James on TKC 413 in July, 2016
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
Grant by Ron Chernow
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Homecoming (The Tillerman Cycle Book 1) and Dicey’s Song by Cynthia Voigt
Tillerman Cycle Series by Cynthia Voigt (Goodreads)
Content
Next Week’s Show
I will be reporting from the American Library Association midwinter meeting here in Denver on next week’s show, which I will prepare in Cambridge, Mass.
Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.
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