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Amazon and the Reading Revolution

November 7, 2009
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Amazon and the Reading Revolution

Every day on my lunch break, I push away from the computer and crack open a book. It’s one of my favorite parts of the day because I get to travel to another time and place without ever leaving my office. (To date, I’ve traveled to William Faulker’s Yoknapatawpha County, Jane Austen’s England and aboard Herman Melville’s Pequod, among many others.) As you can probably tell, I love books. My grandmother once described me as a voracious reader and as I was very young at the time, I misunderstood her characterization and thought she called me a ferocious reader....

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