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Yesterday, President Obama delivered a speech remarkable for its mainstream admonitions and for the brief firestorm of controversy it generated in the past week. Was the President trying to “politicize” the process of getting an education, as some critics suggested, or was he using the bully pulpit to encourage kids to crack the books? You be the judge. Here is the President’s speech, rendered in pristine condition for reading on your Kindle:

Prepared Remarks of President Barack Obama

What I liked reading in the coverage of the event were the comments of school children themselves, most of who were pretty impressed that the President would take the time to speak to them directly…about anything. How did your students react?

With the nomination in place, the debate is about to begin. Read the “up-to-the-minute” backgrounder on President Obama’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, by downloading the Wikipedia article here.

I admit it, I cried like a baby. But I wiped away the tears and got the transcript to share with you, formatted for the Kindle. As simple as the process is, it still took over an hour to get it done. If you are like me, you heard a bunch of stuff in the flow of the speech that you would like to refer back to; this transcript should help.

You can get the file here, save it to your desktop, and then connect the Kindle to your computer with the USB cord. Just drag the Inaugural Address file into the “documents” file that will appear in the window opened for the Kindle. Pull the USB cord, check the Menu, and you are good to go!