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The Reader’s Edge | Charlie Samways | April 19, 2026 In 2009, Amazon remotely deleted copies of George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm from customers' Kindles without warning, after a rights dispute. The books had been purchased. They were simply gone. That story is circulating again this week,
The Reader’s Edge | Charlie Samways | April 12, 2026 As soon as you find routines that make your life comfortable, it’s easy to hold onto them. Comfort is efficient. It saves energy, reduces friction, and lets you move through your days without unnecessary resistance. The problem is that comfort
The Reader’s Edge | Charlie Samways | April 5, 2026 Every great reader I have come across has one thing in common. They don’t just read books, they wrestle with them. If I ever take the effort to engage with a book through annotation, making notes, or highlighting, I always
It was the first time in months that I struggled to pick my next read. I finished a quality book, and I always rely on my “Read Next” collection – a selection of books I’ve hand-picked. The problem was simple – I had a book I wanted to read, but it
A lot of Kindle users don’t know that you can customise your Kindle and it’s far simpler than you think. Some of the favourite tricks that I have learnt have been linked to features that only become available when you connect your Kindle device to a computer, and
