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Apologies - thanks for spoilering that, Judy.
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The Fire is a good Kindle with 4Gb capacity and I think, like my PW1 has a very long life although the battery requires charging more often now (again like my PW1)It is well worth getting the new PW5. It is very easy to read literally anywhere. in pitchdark to bright sunlight.THe illumination is very considerably improvedm the print is much clearer and there is a good selection of fonts if you want a change. Overall it is clearer, brighter, a bigger screen, at least double the capacity with 8Gb, you can quadruple that with the slightly more expensive 'Signature' model with 32Gb intended to take Audible books although you would also need a Bluetooth speaker or headphones for that. , THe battery lasts weeks longer. Overall, the reading experience with the new PW5 is much more comfortable, much less of a strain on your eyes
There are several excellent reviews of the Kindle on Youtube which go into great detail and which helped me to decide to buy it.
There are lots of different e'readers available now, most of which are not available in this neck of the woods
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The Complete, Annotated Whose Body? (other topics)Whose Body? (other topics)
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Bill Peschel (other topics)Dorothy L. Sayers (other topics)
This is Emma's comment:
Rosina wrote: "Fingerprints - Bunter looks at them, but there's no suggestion that the police have used them to try to identify the body. I haven't been able to find out (by simple googling) when..." and Keith replied: "The Metropolitan police started using fingerprints in 1900. There are many independent police forces in the Britain, based on counties and cities although they cooperate."
But before the advent of computers, fingerprints had to be stored manually, and police forces would only store fingerprints of convicted criminals (in Georgette Heyer's A Blunt Instrument, for example, (view spoiler)[Charlie Carpenter's presence at the murder scene is identified from his fingerprints). (hide spoiler)] It would have been a real effort to identify someone from their fingerprints, even had the police assumed he might be a criminal. Sayers tends to have people identified by their dental records (as in her short story In The Teeth of the Evidence, for example).