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

On 3/25/2024 12:11 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> 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.

  I use the kindle app on ipad and an android phone, and haven't
noticed any ads beyond 'you might like this book'.

...but I don't get the text-to-voice, and I'd love to have it.

pt