I have now saved $83.26 on books by buying a Kindle.
Admittedly, I would not have purchased some of these books had I not gotten a Kindle… And that would put the figure in the $60s. But I’m sure glad I bought those books (like Nothing to Envy, Stalingrad, and 1776) and read them—and that reading wouldn’t have happened without the Kindle. It makes reading good books in snatches much easier.
Why I Preach from the Received Text is an anthology of personal testimonies more than it is a collection of careful arguments. It is not intended to be academic, and I see nothing necessarily wrong with that. But it does make countless properly academic claims, and...
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro My rating: 5 of 5 stars Robert Caro is fascinated by power. He has given his life to exploring how it is gained and kept. And in Robert Moses, the subject of this epic book, power looks like the...
Finding the Right Hills to Die On: The Case for Theological Triage by Gavin Ortlund My rating: 4 of 5 stars Gracious, clear, accessible. Extremely well done. I nearly docked him a star for being ever-so-slightly in a different place than I am on creationism (though I...
The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth, by Jonathan Rauch (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2021).I have such mixed feelings about this book. I so much want so much of it to be true and right. I hold a minority worldview in my society;...
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Mark, have you encountered any problems with your Kindle? Some reviewers on Amazon have had trouble with it freezing up after only a short time of owning/using it.
Just recently it started to reset at random. That wasn’t cool. I backed up my documents and reset the device to factory defaults, and that seemed to help. I’ve had one reset since then, I think. If I have more I think I may send it back for a replacement. I never had that trouble with my Kindle 2—though any device will need to be reset sometimes, and I did have to do that very occasionally.