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I didn’t know that October was quite the month for readers. Besides
the local Wisconsin Book Festival going on this weekend, there is…

the posting of the National Book Award 2006 finalists

it’s National Book Month, although I’m not really sure what that means.
the National Book Festival, in Washington, D.C. was on September 30, but that’s pretty close, […]

Now that I can bike to work, my days of listening to Books On Tape during my commute look to be over. Having a half hour to listen to a good story made the long drive to and from work something I would look forward to. Now my drive is just over five minutes, […]

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 […]