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When I logged in to my Amazon.co.uk account on Wednesday, there was a personalized email from Jeff Bezos, the CEO of the online giant. I am sure millions of other loyal customers may have got the same, perhaps at different times. Mr Bezos, is offering his customers the choice of getting its latest e-book reader on our doorstep on 27th August, the forthcoming release date.  

Show 10 sees us marching into double figures and pondering the slashed price of the Amazon Kindle , the ethereal desirability of the Apple Magic Trackpad and Facebook privacy or the lack thereof.  

(07-30) 11:41 PDT -- This week WikiLeaks blew its loudest and largest whistle yet, revealing more than 90,000 confidential documents detailing the war in Afghanistan. What else happened? The Digital Millennium Copyright Act went in for a trim, Apple continued to pick fights with other smartphone makers, and Android tablets began to show up everywhere.  

The weather in Westminster, Md., where the Ravens conduct camp at picturesque McDaniel College, is usually quite hot and sticky. But not Friday, which featured low humidity, warm but not stifling temperatures and a nice little breeze at times for the first full-squad, full-pads practice of Baltimore's camp. Quite a difference from the muggy conditions that prevailed Thursday at Redskins camp in Ashburn, Va.  

The bedtime story is one of the most sacred of childhood rituals. We curl up on our parents' laps, snuggle up with our blankets and velveteen bunnies, as we listen, follow along with our fingertips, and eventually sound out the words of our favorite stories. A famous publisher and author of children's books, Emilie Buchwald, said that "children are made readers on the laps of their parents."  

Shanda Literature, a unit of Shanda Interactive Entertainment, is entering the fast-growing world of electronic books with the launch of its new Bambook. Shanda Literature's chief executive, Hou Xiaoqiang, said Shanda started researching e-books 18 months ago before coming up with the Bambook, which comes with Wi-fi and 3G. The Bambook has a six-inch screen and allows users access to the company's newly launched Yunzhong library, which has three million books and more than 1,000 journals and claims to  

Amazon is credited with basically inventing the modern e-reader phenomenon, just as Apple is reinventing the entire slate PC genre--but Copia, who we wrote about yesterday with their color-screened $99 Kindle challenger, really plans on entering both markets with a huge splash. CrunchGear has been speaking to the new pretender, and discovered that in addition to the super-cheap Wave5 e-reader there's a bunch of other slate-format devices en route. First up is the actual challenger to the Kindle, the Cop  

People are crazy about sports and they all defend the one they love. Soccer hooligans, football fanatics and baseball junkies are all over the world, but to me the thing that's craziest about sports are the people who play them. Few funny stories I have read about around the web here lately have baseball players complaining, football players sleeping and basketball players defending their choices - and all are strange in their own way.  

C EDAR RAPIDS -- Dean Jones got out of the library habit when he got old enough to buy his own books, but he's patronizing the library again, even if he hasn't actually walked in the door. 'When I was younger, I used to spend hours in libraries,' said Jones, 54, of Cedar Rapids. 'It's been a few decades since I've had a library card, because the technology is changing and checking out a book for a few weeks doesn't really suit my style.'