Re: "Mutineer's Moon (Dahak Series)" by David Weber

[email protected] (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) 25 Mar 2024 16:11:15 GMT
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In article <[email protected]>,
Paul S Person  <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>The other weird thing I have noticed (aside from a new user interface,
>which is not, IMHO, an improvement on the old one) is that, with the
>"ads" set to "targetted" what I am being targetted /with/ is a
>rotating set of "bedtime stories for parents and children" with
>cutesy-poo cover illustrations and cutesy-poo titles. It's a good
>thing I'm not diabetic; if I were, that much sugar (only a wee bit
>each time, but it accumulates over time) would be fatal.
>
>I am reading Dumas on one and Deaver on the other. Neither are
>cutesy-poo, so Amazon's ad targetting appears to be off. Way off.

I'm getting those too.

I've lost one jailbroken 2011 Kindle Keyboard to some sort of
hardware issue, but the other is still going strong.  It is amusing
how slow search gets when you have 1240 books loaded.  Definitely
don't want to "trade up" to one without the read-out-loud feature and
a headphone jack.
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