2014 preview: Reading
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Sebastian
Well there you have it, another year in the books. Have a look at my list from last year here. I finished 18 books total which is 7 less than in the two previous years. I have been focused on music so much, I guess something had to give. For this year I went […]
Review: Walter Isaacson – Steve Jobs, a biography
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Sebastian
Oh my. How painful it is to read this book and think “what could have been”. Here you have a guy that has amazing access to the man Steve Jobs and then he writes a turd of a book. I remember reading Gruber’s review in February and thinking “it can’t be that bad”… Well I […]
Preview: Reading 2012
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Sebastian
As for the last couple of years, there will be a reading list for 2012. Last year was pretty good, I worked my way through 24 books. Some of them were short, sure, but the ideas still valuable. After 28 books in 2009 and 18 in 2010 two books/month is a nice pace, considering that […]
Quick thoughts on publishing: Kindle and last.fm
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Sebastian
Ok, so the Kindle 2 is out, with read-out-loud feature which the publishers don’t like. I don’t get it. This is a prove of concept feature. People will realize, they like having a book read to them, when they are driving. Or on the treadmill. And the Kindle 3 will have more HD space and […]
Reading list for 2009 (enough with the resolutions already)
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Sebastian
As you may remember, we will be moving in spring 2010 and we want to trim down the number of boxes of stuff to be moved. A good place to start is books, we own a lot. And I mean, a lot. One way to go about it, is stop buying new books and reading […]
Book worming, PT 2: Book marketing
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Sebastian
As I said in the previous post, Hot, Flat, and Crowded, the new book by Thomas L. Friedman, is on my reading & wish list. It is there for two reasons, the topic and the author. Not because of the marketing. Ever since I got into bestseller lists a bit for my M.A. thesis, I […]