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On 9/10/2016 11:56, RS Wood wrote:
>
> Saw this site linked at Hacker News, and it seems interesting.  Choose a
> bunch of RSS feeds and it will accumulate them for you and send a
> document to the email address associated with your Kindle so you can
> read it off line.
>
> That seems useful and good.
>
> http://readonkindle.com
>
> Still want to root for anyone other than Amazon but unfortunately the
> competitors don't give me much to root for, leaving Amazon the behemoth
> in the room.


When I was a kid, my Mother's mother and my Grandmother's brother lived 
on a farm in central Mississippi, and everything they bought (which 
wasn't all that much) they bought from the "store truck" that came 
around once a week.  (If he didn't have it, he would get it and bring it 
out the next week.  Milk was picked up by a milk truck every day.  Every 
now and again, my uncle would shell and bag two bags of corn and give it 
to the store-truck man, who would bring back a bag's worth of cornmeal 
the following week--keeping a bag's worth as payment.)

My Father's Father and Mother lived is a smallish town in California's 
Central Valley and they bough a lot of what they bought in stores in 
town, but lots of stuff got ordered out of the Montgomery Ward catalogue.

My parents lived in suburban Los Angeles and of course a lot got in 
stores locally, but they bought a lot of stuff ordered out of the Sears, 
Roebuck catalog.  A lot was ordered out of the catalog at the catalog 
desk in the store, where it was picked up in due time later.  Never have 
understood the advantage except reduced shipping, I guess.

In my high school years and a little later, my "toys" came from a number 
of electronics parts stores in the area, and by mail order from Allied 
Radio, World Radio, Henry Radio, Radio Shack and probably some others.

Then Sears announced that there was no market in mail order and they all 
disappeared, overnight, it seemed like.

But nature abhors a vacuum and Whatzisname invented Amazon.  I do 
exercise due diligence and start a general search for something, but it 
almost always turns out that Amazon has what I want (exactly) at a price 
I am willing to pay and will deliver it to my door, in good condition in 
a few days (depending on how much I am willing to pay for shipping).

Not MY fault they don't have any meaningful competition and I do not see 
why I should pay more to have Big Government interfere to make it look 
like they do.


-- 
quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
-- Juvenal

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Read on Kindle RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-09-10 12:56 -0400
  Re: Read on Kindle Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-09-10 18:54 -0500
    Re: Read on Kindle Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-09-10 21:57 -0400
      Re: Read on Kindle Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-09-10 22:38 -0500
        Re: Read on Kindle Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2016-09-11 20:18 +0000
        Re: Read on Kindle Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2016-09-13 09:32 +0100
          Re: Read on Kindle Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-09-13 19:34 -0500
      Re: Read on Kindle Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-09-11 01:48 -0300
        Re: Read on Kindle Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-09-10 23:57 -0500
        Re: Read on Kindle scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2016-09-12 15:28 +0000
          USPS providing last-mile delivery for UPS and FedEx (was: Read on Kindle) "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2016-09-12 17:50 +0000
      Re: Read on Kindle Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2016-09-13 05:57 +0000
        Re: Read on Kindle Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-09-13 07:10 +0000
          Re: Read on Kindle Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-09-13 10:08 +0000
            Re: Read on Kindle Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-09-13 10:21 +0000

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