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End-of-year sale on Smashwords!

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I’ve joined the end-of-year sale on Smashwords. For the rest of 2020, you can get The Magic Battery and Files that Last for 50% off with the code SEY50. This code is provided right on the pages for the books, so you can just go over and buy the books or give the link to others. This sale is only for direct purchases from Smashwords.

This is a site-wide promotion on Smashwords, so you’ll find lots of other discounts if you head over.

If you’ve been waiting for an opportunity to read about Thomas’s magical inventions or learn how to preserve your data, and you have some free time this week, it’s a great opportunity to pick up these books.

The decline of Apple’s Books app

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When it comes to Apple’s software, Plato may have been right. Every change is for the worse. Catalina is outrageously slow. The Books app on the iPad has always been an advertising medium, but it’s gotten really out of hand now.

A few days ago, The Magic Battery magically disappeared from my new iPad. I don’t know why. It’s still on the old iPad. My best guess is that it no longer allows Epub files which I created myself.

Another book, one of the few which I purchased from Apple, is now reachable only by going through a page advertising the other books in the series.
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