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Kobo Aura ONE

2018-10-06

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(on Wikipedia)
https://web.archive.org/web/20190118143102/https://us.kobobooks.com/products/kobo-aura-one
(limited edition)

An E-book reader.

Because this is my first e-reader, I can't judge it against it's peers. It works well.

It is spectacular hardware-wise. Its software works, but it is sometimes obviously or even critically lacking. It lacking a file browser and respecting directories is bad enough that I can't really use it for its intended purpose, and almost regret buying it.

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The Illustrated Sherlock Holmes Treasury - (1887-1908 stories), by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

2016-11-18

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This may take me quite some time to read through.

Not the cover of my edition

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A classic work combining classic works.

I bought this because it's considered one of the great works of literature and has survived into common culture. Though I can see why this would have been popular at the time, especially thanks to the forward saying that the brief writing style was rare, I don't yet see why this would appeal to today's person. Perhaps it's just me, but so far I find the writing style rather insulting.

Unabridged:

1887 - A Study in Scarlet
1890 - The Sign of the Four
1892 - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1893 - The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
1902 - The Hound of the Baskervilles
1904 - The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1908 - The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge
1908 - The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans

Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
Properly titled The Illustrated Sherlock Holmes Treasury - Revised & Expanded
ISBN 0-517-43614-0
ISBN 0-517-43614-2 (lib. ed.)
- Library edition?

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The Art of War - (~202 BC book), by Sun Bin

1017-07-26

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(on Wikipedia)

A military treatise summing up the military experiences prior to and during the mid-Warring States period (475 BC - 221 BC).

Two editions of translations were released, and this publication includes everything:

The 15 chapters of part 1 released in 1985
The additional chapter released in 1985
The 15 chapters from 1975's Part II, which were excised for that 1985 edition.

If this is what I think it is, then I first read this as The Second Art of War and found it a much better read than its predecessor. I was never able to find a book with that title.

aka Sun Bin: The Art of War
This is a two-book hardcover which also has the original/earlier The Art of War - (~476 BC book), by Sunzi
Published 2000-01-01
ISBN-10 7119024124
ISBN-13 978-7119024127
Note: I've read the author died in 310 BC, and I haven't seen a more accurate date for this book.
- p.21 - Sunzi and Sun Bin lived more than 160 years apart.
Sun Bin (孫臏 · 孙膑)
- Historians came to call him "Qi Sunzi" (Master Sun of Qi).

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The Art of War - (~476 BC book), by Sunzi

1017-07-26

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/132

A military treatise from Ancient China's late Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 B.C.).

Like The Prince - (1910 book), by Niccolò Machiavelli, people have interpreted this text for all manner of uses such as the business world.

This is a dual language (Chinese-English) hardcover edition which was translated in China itself, as opposed to being one of the various foreign-made translations.