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I mentioned in an earlier post that I liked using an alternative to Amazon for book links, since I want to give people a place to find out information about the book, not to entice them to buy it.
Now I ran across the Wikipedia Book Sources special page (here’s what it looks like with a […]

I hadn’t noticed until I was done that my time reading Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet had all been when I was staying up later than I probably should. Not that that’s an unusual reading pattern for me, but I hadn’t noticed the geeky symmetry while I was in it.
I […]

I’m going to guess that about 99% of links to books that I come across are links to their page on Amazon.com. There is certainly a wealth of information about the book there, but Amazon’s not trying to educate me about it, they’re trying to sell it to me.
A couple of years ago I came […]

I just came across Ian Frazier’s hilarious book of laws for the household in print. I first heard a recording of him reading this on A Prairie Home Companion, and with pre-school kids of our own, Sara and I were in tears. Reading it is almost as good, but I now bless the MPR programmers […]

I’m ready to admit that selling your house is an exercise in madness, but when I opened Robert Irwin’s Tips and Traps When Selling A Home to the chapter “14 Days to Shaping Up Your House for Sale”, I had to double check that I hadn’t picked up Dave Barry’s Homes and Other Black Holes […]