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Or you can read it on-line including Hypothes.is annotations here

Well, one reason to not get your copy free is because you want to publish a review.

Another reason is because you haven't read the book yet so you don't know how to see this annotation telling you how to get the book for free!

This book is only 99 cents on Amazon. However, because Amazon tells authors that they reserve the right to price-match the cheapest place price available to the public, and because this book is free at UNGLUE.IT, you might be able to complain to Amazon and have them make the book free there too.

I have it on good authority that Len Bakerloo would be willing to forgo the revenues to deprive Amazon of the income. Why? I asked Len, and he said,

"History resides in books. The first draft of history resides in newspapers. Jeff Bezos already controls books and now that he has bought the Washington Post we run the risk he wants to control the first draft of history as well. Why run the risk by helping him make more money. The guy is rich enough already."

Is this an anagram of someone famous?

a.k.a. Soft Dollar Arrangements

a.k.a. Statistical Arbitrage

In what computer languages would this be a valid expression?

That's where you come in. Sherlock wants you to take most of what you hear in the news as the expression of a hypothesis, and your job is to figure out what is fact and what is fiction.

Sherlock doesn't really explain this in the first chapter. You'll have to read the full series to understand how he pulled off this trick.

Jeff Bezos says The Washington Post’s goal is to become the “new paper of record”

Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post for $250 million.

In April 1963, Phil Graham delivered a speech to the overseas correspondents of Newsweek in London:

"So let us today drudge on about our inescapably impossible task of providing every week a first rough draft of history that will never really be completed about a world we can never really understand…" (More here.)

Phil Graham was co-owner of the Washington Post along with his wife, Katherine Graham. On October 1, 2013 Amazon owner, Jeff Bezos, bought the Washington Post, so perhaps not only will he own the history books he will also own the first draft of history.

In this book you will learn how to annotate anything anywhere using the tools at Hypothes.is.

Sherlock is hoping you will join with other Baker Street Irregulars in helping to catch errors in the press and crowd-source the search for meaning and relevance.

For more, read: How Headlines Change the Way We Think

Truth be told, Sherlock believed that newspapers often went for the simplest explanation and even so-called detectives like Lestrade would fall for it. For example, in The Boscombe Valley Mystery, Lestrade says: "You have, no doubt, already formed your conclusions from the newspapers,The case is as plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer it becomes."

Sherlock believed that if it was in the newspaper then the story was necessarily oversimplified because it needed to appeal to simpletons like Lestrade.

Although news stories often carry a kernel of truth, you usually need to do your own digging and thinking to find the real story.

Here is a photograph of me during my "flapper" years:

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But I prefer this portrait made more than 100 years earlier.

Learn about me here:

This line is used in Len Bakerloo's book The Case of the Worthless Newspapers: Calling All Irregulars

Few people know this but Sherlock was actually born in Russia in 1792 and didn't change his name until much later.