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The Kindle app for Android has arrived!

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And this is fanTAStic!

Who needs an actual Kindle? ... Well, OK, it would be nice, but dealing with reading on my phone has proven to be quite convenient.

Anyway, this is awesome timing  considering that I leave on my tour of Israel next Wednesday. I've also found several excellent theological works - John Calvin, Jonathan Edwards, Charles Spurgeon, John Bunyan, Aquinas - available via the Kindle store that are very inexpensive-to-free. So assuming that my battery holds out in "airplane mode" for a decent time (and yes, I'll be able to charge it in Israel; I'm mainly worried about the flight to/from Tel Aviv), I'll have all the reading material I could possibly want!

Life is good - and God's provision is wonderful!

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Google Listen just got a WHOLE lot better....

... mainly because I just figured out that I can add a podcast feed to the "Listen Subscriptions" folder in Google Reader, and it will be picked up by the app on my MotoDroid.

Listen has been driving me insane because it was extremely difficult to find the podcasts I wanted using the search engine in the app. Frankly, I was seriously beginning to wonder if there was a bias against Christian podcasts!

But now I've got my daily Bible reading, J. Vernon McGee's "Through the Bible," and Ravi Zacharias' "Let My People Think." Plus, there are a whole slew of excellent teachers to whom I now have access.

WOOT!

All right, so... maybe I don't need a Kindle/eReader as much as I thought

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One of the apps that I have on my AWESOME Verizon/Motorola Droid phone is the Aldiko ereader. It's fantastic! It has a lot of free books ready to download to my Android and read where ever I want. Plus, if I have a link to a downloadable epub file, Aldiko will get it for me!

[huge waves of warm, happy bookwormishness!]

My second shout-out has to go to Baen books and their webscription store. I've purchased several ebooks from them, and those books stay in my "purchased books" file online. I can go back to the store and re-download any book I've bought, and I can even download in a different format. So, all those John Ringo books I downloaded for the Sony eReader (which has now been stolen by the Munchkin) in the .lrf format? I can RE-download in the epub format with no problems, and Aldiko reads it beautifully!

[*happy sigh*]

 Plus, Kindle is supposedly coming out with an app for Android phones soon, so then I'll be even happier!

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