Updates:
After many interruptions, I’m finally back to updating our CDs and DVDs. I just finished the update for our Religion CD http://samizdat.stores.yahoo.net/religioncd.html (86 books added, for a total of 1025 books), and the CDs that are subsets of that — Christian http://samizdat.stores.yahoo.net/christian.html (61 books added, for a total of 626), Jewish http://samizdat.stores.yahoo.net/jewish.html(5 books added for a total of 103), and Occult http://samizdat.stores.yahoo.net/occult.html(24 books added for a total of 121). The new books (on both Religion and Christian in the subsection for Calvinist/Puritan/Presbyterian) include Calvin’s Commentaries, Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary, Fox’s Book of Martyrs, and volume 1 of John Knox’s works.
I now plan to update the rest of our Classic Collection CDs — American Lit, British Lit, World Lit, Books about Classical Music, Children’s Books, and Non-Fiction — and then the Complete Book DVD set which includes all those books.
Please let me know which of our CDs and DVDs are most important to you, so I can adjust my priorities accordingly.
Update policy:
If you buy a CD from us, you can buy an update of that CD (with all the books) for just $10. And if you buy a DVD from us, you can buy an update of that DVD for just $30.
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Two-for-the-price-of-one offer extended for another month (until the end of April:
Buy a CD or DVD from us and get a second copy of the same item for free. It applies only to full-price purchases, not updates. Please consider donating the extra ones to schools or libraries or using them as gifts. (You’d be amazed how many people who could enjoy and benefit from book collections on CD and DVD don’t realize they can buy and read books this way). You can do this as many times as you like for, as many CDs or DVDs as you like.
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CIA World Factbook:
The 2008 CIA World Factbook is now available, so I’m adding that (replacing the 2007 edition) to all of our Country Region CDs http://samizdat.stores.yahoo.net/seedprescure.html
That includes these CDs:
Africa
Australia
British History
Canada
China
Cold War
France
Germany
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Middle East
Philippines
Portugal
Russia
Scandinavia
Scotland
South Asia
Spain and Latin America
Wales
World Reference
plus the Region/Country DVD.
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“Ancestor Surfing”:
Reading Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped and the sequel, Catriona, I remembered that a couple of the Scottish family names that were prominent in those novels — Campbell and Drummond — appeared the book that covers my mother’s family tree “The Cary-Estes Genealogy”. Reading an intriguing but confusing passage there led me to double-check with Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/) And in a matter of minutes I was surfing rapidly through biographies of ancestors. Then I went back and covered the same ground slowly and carefully putting together Web pages that focused on particular lines, with links to the relevant Wikipedia entries. If you are curious, please check http://www.samizdat.com/ancestorsurfing.html You can get to the various lines from there. Even if you have no connection to the Estes family, you might want to check to see if you’d like to do something similar for your family.
Making a break-through like that in tracing my ancestry on the Web reminded me of the experience of Paul Atrides (”Muad-Dib”) in the novel “Dune.” Thanks to the effects of the “spice” and of his special genes, he suddenly senses the presence both individually and collectively of all his ancestors back for thousands of years.
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Book reading devices for the blind:
For those of you who are blind and are frustrated that the Kindle is not accessible, you might want to try the Victor Reader Stream from Humanware or the Adept1 from Amazability.
Gail Selfridge wrote me about the Victor Reader Stream, “If you’re going to advertise the Kindle reader for your sighted readers, I think you should advertise the Victor Reader Stream by Humanware for your blind readers. It’s fantastic. It reads text files, NLS digital Talking Book files, MP3 files and almost any other kind for books except is it .wma files? Whatever Windows Media Player can play, and Humanware says in their next update, they’ll add those. This thing is great. The guy who sold it to me called it the blind person’s IPod. I take the Victor Reader Stream everywhere with me. I can read the morning paper while I’m waiting for an appointment. It’s fantastic.”
I’ve had a demo of the Adept1. It isn’t portable, but it was designed complete for the blind by the blind. And unlike the Kindle (which comes with no books — you have to buy them separately), the Adept1 comes with a complete library. See http://www.amazability.com/adept1.htm for details.
Meanwhile I’m having great fun with my Kindle — reading more than I have in many years.
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Free ebook of the week and free kid’s book of the week:
This week’s selections are “The Master of Ballantrae” by Robert Louis Stevenson and “Pinocchi” by Collodi. Please let me know if you’d like me to add you to either or both those email distribution lists.
Richard Seltzer, seltzer@samizdat.com
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