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Johann Thorsson

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Johann Thorsson is a native of Iceland, but spends much of his time in Bookland. He has lived in a few parts of the world but currently lives in Iceland with a pretty woman and a mischievous son who resembles Calvin (of Calvin and Hobbes fame) more each day. He has a complicated but ultimately useless degree in bioinformatics from a very pretty college in England. His favorite books are 1984, Flowers for Algernon and The English Patient. He hopes one day to call himself a writer without feeling like he's just fooling himself. Blog: Johann Thorsson - On Book and Writing Twitter: @johannthors

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Amazon is rolling out their new family of Kindle Fires, and they now have a new feature called Mayday.

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It looks great there, but I wonder if it will actually work that well. I’ve had my fair share of tech-support jobs, and they never go that smoothly.

I’m still not sold–the reason I like my Kindle is that it is distraction-free. I can read without my mind pulling me to just play one more level of Plants vs Zombies. And this also has that added 1984 feeling about it. I mean… there’s a person inside your book.

What do you think?

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