TKC 424 John Biglow

Rowing medalist, challenged reader trying a Kindle Interview ‪starts ‪at 14:43 and ends at 42:48 I remember walking home from third grade and throwing a workbook away, it was a book that I had made out of paper and was keeping notes in. I threw it in the bushes, because my teacher said, "You're supposed to take this home and get your parents to sign off on your assignments, that you've done them all." I threw it away, and I said I'd lost it. because I didn't want to show that I'd not done the reading, because I hated it so much. I just didn't like it. I can do the reading; I just don't like it. And I still have that feeling today.   News "Amazon Alexa, Echo, and the All-New Echo Dot Coming to the UK" - press release September 14, 2016 Amazon Echo - Wikipedia "The Best thing about Amazon's $50 Echo Dot? It's available to all" by Devindra Hardawar at Engadget - September 14, 2016 "Brief: The Future of Voice Control Goes Far Beyond Dictation" by James McQuivey with David M. Cooperstein, Alexandra Hayes at Forrester Research - April 14, 2014 "Alexa—turn on my local Heart radio station" by Roy Martin at Radio Today Industry News  "Amazon Books opens in San Diego" by Jennifer Van Grove at The San Diego Union-Tribune - September 14, 2016 Kobo Aura One "Amazon Prime tunes into Audible" by Ben Fox Rubin at CNET = September 13, 2016   Tech Tip More specs on the next generation Fire HD 8 tablet   Interview with John Biglow Craftsbury Sculling Center Mind over Water: Lessons on Life from the Art of Rowing by Craig Lambert (published in September, 1999) The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel ‪James Brown Head of the Charles Regatta The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal by David Halberstam My Brilliant Friend by Elana Ferrante FULL audio books for everyone channel at YouTube Kindle Oasis OpenDyslexic font Kindle ($80) at Amazon.com My interview with Temple Grandin in TKC 196 - April 30, 2012      Video - Part 1      Video - Part 2 Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day by Craig Lambert  Craig Lambert on TKC 354 - May 2015   Comments Kindle Paperwhite handmade in India at Snapdeal, Flipkart and Shopclues Kindle Oasis skins at DecalGirl   Next Week's Guest: James McQuivey, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research   Outro "Dock Talk: The Essence of Sculling" - my 360 YouTube video from Craftsbury Sculling Center   Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.    Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!