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Affirmations - Daily Affirmations To Improve Your Life
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● 400 Affirmations to improve your life: Manifest change now! ● Affirmation timer included: a...
Secret Smileys for Skype - Hidden Emoticons for Skype Chat - Emoji
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A list of all hidden Skype™ emoticons, including lot's of hidden emoticons: • Standard...
Literally.Laura (1763 KP) rated Amazon Kindle in Apps
Jul 4, 2018 (Updated Jul 4, 2018)
Daily Use
I use this app almost daily. It is much more convenient for me to use an app on my phone than to carry around (and keep charged) a second device. I honestly can't think of anything I dislike about this app.
There are different background color options, different fonts (including a special font for dyslexia) and font size can be adjusted. You can adjust lighting within the app as well.
Each book includes a short preview and a promotional blurb. There are options to bookmark sections, highlight passages, and make notations. This can be very helpful for reviewing as well as for research. You can also search for specific change words or phrases within the book. This has been very helpful for me. The sync notes and progress among all apps/devices registered to the same account, so if you read a bit on your computer (say, at work) and then come home and use the app on your phone or pick up a Kindle device you do not have to search for where you left off. There is also a dictionary option. If you ever come across a word you don't recognize or understand, you can tap on the word and the dictionary entry will appear.
When you finish a title, there is a "before you go" section where you can update your progress on Goodreads, rate the title, learn a little about the author, and see similar books you may like.
There is a feature called "word runner" that is supposed to decrease eye strain and increase reading speed. Instead of moving your eyes along the page, word runner shows you one word at a time in the middle of the screen. The speed can be adjusted for this setting. I personally don't find that this helps me at all. In fact, I feel like reading flows better when I do NOT use this setting. However, it may be helpful for some people especially people who have difficulty concentrating.
There are different background color options, different fonts (including a special font for dyslexia) and font size can be adjusted. You can adjust lighting within the app as well.
Each book includes a short preview and a promotional blurb. There are options to bookmark sections, highlight passages, and make notations. This can be very helpful for reviewing as well as for research. You can also search for specific change words or phrases within the book. This has been very helpful for me. The sync notes and progress among all apps/devices registered to the same account, so if you read a bit on your computer (say, at work) and then come home and use the app on your phone or pick up a Kindle device you do not have to search for where you left off. There is also a dictionary option. If you ever come across a word you don't recognize or understand, you can tap on the word and the dictionary entry will appear.
When you finish a title, there is a "before you go" section where you can update your progress on Goodreads, rate the title, learn a little about the author, and see similar books you may like.
There is a feature called "word runner" that is supposed to decrease eye strain and increase reading speed. Instead of moving your eyes along the page, word runner shows you one word at a time in the middle of the screen. The speed can be adjusted for this setting. I personally don't find that this helps me at all. In fact, I feel like reading flows better when I do NOT use this setting. However, it may be helpful for some people especially people who have difficulty concentrating.
AeroWeather Lite
Weather and Travel
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*** AeroWeather: for pilots, aviation enthusiasts, and everyone who is serious about the weather! ...
Canadian Living
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Be inspired by great ideas brought to life with Canadian Living’s custom iPad edition. Each...
Lumos (380 KP) rated Evolution: The Beginning in Tabletop Games
Mar 30, 2018
I like the theme of this game. My friends and AI always go with a theme, so one might be safari animals, insects, water creatures. The hardest part is remembering what creature is what.. did you just destroy my burrowing, flying, long-necked elephants? I suppose you don't have to name the species you are creating. But we find that it adds more fun. I have played this in my classroom with my 5th grade students when learning about evolution. It was helpful for them to understand how certain species survive over others and how some adaptations stick where others just don't cut the genetic code.
ClareR (5686 KP) rated The Greatest Showman (2017) in Movies
May 27, 2018
Great fun
I watched this with my two sons who are 11 and 13. It’s great fun, great songs (which the 11 year old attempted to sing along to almost immediately) and a fun storyline. It may well have been more enjoyable if the 13 year old hadn’t been watching it though. He pointed out that it wasn’t very historically accurate, and he didn’t think that they had electric guitars back then. Well, despite these and more similar ‘helpful’ comments, myself and the younger son enjoyed it very much. I’m banishing the older one to his room the next time I watch any films. This is pretty standard behaviour from him ?
Spencer3327 (0 KP) rated Wishtree in Books
Jun 20, 2018
Touching Tree Tale
I grabbed this book to read before making suggestions to my students and I fell in love with it. It is a wonderful tale of a town, girl and a tree full of animal friends. It takes a few chapters to get into, but once you get hooked, you can't put it down. The messages learned along the way are lessons that children... and many adults need to remember going through life. I really liked the concept of wishes and sharing them to allow others that feeling of being helpful. I suggest this book to any parent or teacher to read aloud. Amazing conversations will occur.