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I was mildly disappointed when I walked into a diner in Manhattan last week to discover that one of my deputies in the NYPD had already arrived. Thinking I was early, I looked forward to reading Steve Coll's Ghost Wars while I waited. It's one of ten unabridged titles I downloaded in recent weeks onto my Amazon Kindle, the electronic reader where I've already stored Bob Woodward, Tom Sowell, and Tom Friedman among others. With the Kindle, which is a fraction of the size of real book, you can take your library with you anywhere, including all those places where you might otherwise kill time empty-handed—waiting rooms, airport terminals, cabs, you name it. The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times automatically download each night. For anyone who needs or wants to keep abreast of the news and all things literary, Kindle quickly becomes indispensable; perhaps, to a fault. I was slightly embarrassed when I ran into Barbara Walters the other day—you see, I had read The Audition on my Kindle, and I felt I knew too much. |






