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Bad Candidate, Great Reference

I’ve always been an avid reader. In the early years of my career, during my frequent trips from my home in Argentina to the United States, I would spend days perusing books at the best stores, coming home with so many that I often had to buy new bags to fit them. After a while, I decided I couldn’t collect any more new luggage, so would start each journey with an empty bag or two to fill. Thankfully, Jeff Bezos launched Amazon.com and changed my life, allowing me to buy any title with the click of a mouse and have it delivered to Buenos Aires within a week. Now I can get my Kindle books within seconds via Whispernet wherever I happen to be, and I don’t need extra bags to carry and read them all over the world. ...

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