correction on Free Peanuts Book announcement

When I said of the free Kindle edition of  It’s a Dog’s Life, Snoopy that “you don’t need a Kindle device to read it; there are Kindle programs for most computers, for the iPad and other tablets, etc.“, I was only partly, fuzzily right. This book, while readable by the iPad and Android apps, is not supported by the native Mac and PC apps. Rather, computer users should get the Kindle Cloud Reader, which works in the Chrome and Firefox web browsers. Even if this proves not to be a good way to read it, you may want to do it anyway, because having the Cloud Reader will let you order the book now while it’s free, and then if sometime in the future you get an appropriate device, you have it in your Amazon account and can download it to the new device.

Administrative
The AAUGH Blog: Now on Bluesky

I have now set up a Bluesky account for The AAUGH Blog — username @aaugh.com — which will automatically post a link to every new blog post here (or at least, every new one with a header image… which I’m taking advantage of here because the people following the account …

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Well, that was a reaction

Yesterday’s post about socialism accusations being aimed at Peanuts and drawing a parallel to today’s attacks on libraries actually didn’t get much response. Even when I shared a version on social media, I got a mere handful of “likes”. But the one email I got was a doozy. I mean, …

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Costco eases out of books

Membership-based store chain Costco has announced that they are backing out of carrying books as a year-round item, the New York Times reports. Those big tables filled with stacks of best-sellers and deluxe and kid-friendly titles will instead just be dragged out for the last third of the year, for …