Reading and downloading ebooks on my Kindle Voyage
Posted By RichC on April 27, 2017
After borrowing my daughter’s Nook, and my friends Kindle, I finally have my own ereader — thanks to MyDesultoryBlog readers and discreet Google Ad clickers. I now can travel and read comfortably without disassembling the keyboard off my iPad Air2 and "hefting" the much heavier and larger tablet in front of my face. My second-hand Kindle Voyage is just about perfect … not to heavy and not too large. As Goldilocks would say, "just right." The 6" paperwhite screen is high resolution at 300ppi and always bright enough with the LED backlighting. I don’t think even Amazon’s next model up, the Oasis, could be much better?
I’ve already finish up two of my previous downloads from my iPad, but sadly couldn’t transfer or "loan" Predictably Irrational, a book my buddy Jeff has me reading on "his" Kindle.
But just so happens, Robert J. Oneill has a book coming out this week call "The Operator" and am going to add it to my books to read. Gone are the days of $9.99 ebooks I guess? Oh well, @mchooyah is definitely one author I don’t mind seeing rewarded with a few publisher royalty checks … thank you for you service Mr. O’neill, and taking out Osama bin Laden!
A stirringly evocative, thought-provoking, and often jaw-dropping account, The Operator ranges across SEAL Team Operator Robert O’Neill’s awe-inspiring four-hundred-mission career, which included his involvement in
attempts to rescue “Lone Survivor” Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard Phillips and which culminated in those famous three shots that dispatched the world’s most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden.
In these pages, O’Neill describes his idyllic childhood in Butte, Montana; his impulsive decision to join the SEALs; the arduous evaluation and training process; and the even tougher gauntlet he had to run to join the SEALs’ most elite unit. After officially becoming a SEAL, O’Neill would spend more than a decade in the most intense counterterror effort in US history. For extended periods, not a night passed without him and his small team recording multiple enemy kills—and though he was lucky enough to survive, several of the SEALs he’d trained with and fought beside never made it home.
The Operator describes the nonstop action of O’Neill’s deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, evokes the black humor of years-long combat, brings to vivid life the lethal efficiency of the military’s most selective units, and reveals firsthand details of the most celebrated terrorist takedown in history.
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