I haven’t written a book review in a long time so I thought I’d just share what I’ve been reading lately. Mark Coggins leads the technical evangelist team at Mozilla and as he’s someone I work with on a daily basis, I was curious about his books. I have to admit, I started with The Adventure […]
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If you are an Amazon Prime subscriber, you can check out one free book a month. However, Amazon doesn’t make it really easy for you to figure out which books are eligible to be checked out from the Owners’ Lending Library. To see the list of books you can check out, search for “prime eligible”
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I really enjoyed Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Dan Pink. I quote Dan Pink in just about every talk I give ever since I read his book A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future. In Drive he talks about rewards as motivation and how they apply to the
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Did you know that not only are there entire books on fish, but there are entire books on single types of fish? Much to my delight, my four year old sees the library as a treasure house of information. He’s not interested in the stories (although I push them every time), he just wants to
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The Kindle now lets you see what other readers have highlighted. I look forward to the day when I can filter this by what my friends have highlighted. I find what people highlight in fiction books is baffling. For example, is this quote meaningful to you? Jace didn’t take his eyes off Simon; there was
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Audible now has an Android app, yeah! But recently, I couldn’t get my new books to show up on my phone. I followed all the steps in their support forums: Make sure you’re signed in with the right account. Refresh. Sign out, sign back in. Uninstall the app, reinstall. Uninstall, delete the AudibleActivation.sys file, reinstall.
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Food Rules by Michael Pollen is a good summary of many of his other books. It’s a set of 63 rules with a bit of explanation per rule. If you’ve never read any of his books, I’d probably recommend The Omnivore’s Dilemma, but if you’ve already read one or if you are just looking for
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A couple of weeks ago I asked for recommendations for dragon books. Then I was flipping through my Kindle books (I download a lot of free ones from Amazon) and I saw Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb. Amazon gave it away for a while and I downloaded it and never read it. I read it
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I watched How to Train Your Dragon yesterday and I really enjoyed it. I plan on reading the How to Train Your Dragon book series. I started thinking of all the dragon books I’ve read … and realized that while I know a few really good series, I know fewer than I thought. (I must
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Here’s a writing tip from a reader: do not make things too easy for your protagonist. I’ve been reading fiction books by new authors. They often make the protagonist struggle throughout the whole book and then suddenly give them super powers. Or sometimes they sporadically give them superpowers throughout the book. Or have magical creatures
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