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[ SITES ] Sun smartphone and tablet site (smartphones and tablets) Touch.baltimoresun.com, specially designed to be interacted with on touch screens, automatically adjusts its presentation according to your device. Readers visiting baltimoresun.com on...Tags: Apple iTunes, Sony Corp., Periodicals, Twitter, Inc., Baseball
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Happy birthday, Kindle
Today marks the fifth birthday of the Amazon Kindle -- the biggest change in the way we read since Penguin started selling paperbacks for the cost of a pack of smokes. I was a slow convert to e-books, but that's mainly an outgrowth of being able to...
Tags: Amazon Kindle Fire
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Elkridge teenager publishes young adult fantasy novel
Snapping her own picture for the author's portrait on the young adult fantasy novel "Cursed with Power," Lindsey Sablowski didn't notice the way half of her youthful face was brightly illuminated while the other half was deep in shadow. But Sigmund Freud...
Tags: Hunt Valley, Howard Community College, Literature, Fiction, Authors
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Book lovers descend on annual city festival
Mary Morton moved away from Baltimore earlier this year but returned on Sunday for the city's annual book festival. Morton, who now lives in Hagerstown, has attended almost every Baltimore Book Festival since its inception in 1996. The festival has...
Tags: Festive Events, Baltimore Book Festival, Washington Monument, Mount Vernon, Apple iPad
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Amazon introduces latest Kindle: Paperwhite
Amazon continued today to refine and extend its line of Kindle e-readers, with a new model called the Paperwhite, which is back-lit and has a higher resolution than its previous e-readers.Touting it as the "most advanced e-reader ever constructed," Amazon...
Tags: Jeff Bezos
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Mount Airy author publishes book on notorious carjacking, murder
No one who remembers 20 years ago is likely to have forgotten the horrendous carjacking and murder of Pam Basu. On Sept. 8, 1992, the Maryland mother was taking her 2-year-old daughter to her first day of nursery school when two men pulled her from her...Tags: Howard County, Photography and Video, Murder, Health and Safety at School, Video Supplies and Services
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Robert James Mitchell, retired building contractor
Robert James Mitchell, a retired Baltimore County building contractor and a one-time trainer for the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, died Wednesday of a cerebral hemorrhage at his home, "Dogwoods," in Glen Arm. He was 81. Aside from a stint at Fort...Tags: Labor Legislation, Korean War (1950-1953), Colonists of North America, Wars and Interventions, Baltimore County
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For many parents, books that can be held are still the first choice
Jo Keller relies on her Kindle when she travels so she can forgo lugging hardback books, but when it comes to her children's reading habits, she feels differently.
She has squirreled away many of the books she read as a child growing up in England and is...Tags: Literature, Bowie, American Academy of Pediatrics, Technology, Books
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Harry Potter novels available for loan via Kindle
Harry Potter novels will be available through the Kindle Owners' Lending Library, Amazon said today, in announcing a deal with J.K. Rowling’s Pottermore website. announced today. Of course, there's a catch. To get access to the library, you'll need...
Tags: Libraries, Harry Potter (fictional character), Jeff Bezos, J.K. Rowling
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Barnes & Noble, Microsoft team up behind Nook
Barnes & Noble has teamed up with Microsoft to create a powerful competitor to the Amazon Kindle -- setting up a mano a mano battle for dominance of the e-reader market. The deal is built around the Barnes & Noble Nook and related digital business....
Tags: Computing and Information Technology Industry, Companies and Corporations, Microsoft Corporation
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Carjacking murder of Pam Basu subject of former county cop's book
No one who lived in Howard County 20 years ago is likely to have forgotten the horrendous carjacking and murder of Pam Basu. On Sept. 8, 1992, the Savage mother was taking her 2-year-old daughter to her first day of nursery school when two men pulled...
Tags: Murder, Book, Safety of Citizens, Government, Johns Hopkins University
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