Value System

There comes a time in the life, when you realize that your value system is different from that of your parents'.

Guess, then it is the time to start all over again!

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I have been hearing since eternity that how bad is Kindle for reading PDFs. The fact is everyone who says is has been doing it wrong. They transfer them directly via USB and grumble how bad PDFs look on Kindle.

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