Posts Tagged ‘books’

How to Fuel Your Idea Machine

“Reading fiction is a waste of time.”

Have you ever heard someone spout this line of complete and utter bollocks? I’ve rarely heard anything so ridiculous said in my life. Fiction, like all the arts, is an important part of culture; both a reflective distillation of it, and the base elements that form it. Society’s collective attitudes, values, beliefs and the public memory have a symbiotic relationship with the arts.
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April 12 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: books, creativity, fiction, ideas, problem-solving, reading | 21 comments»

Literary Gluttony - How to Consume More Books This Year

Over 40% of Americans claim not to have read any books in the previous year. The survey was last conducted in 2002, and noted falling reading rates from previous years. I’m sure if you’re reading through lifehack.org that you probably don’t expect reading to stop after you graduate. Yet, with such dismal statistics, how can you beat the odds and read more books this year?

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January 8 2008 | By Scott H | Tagged: books, improvement, learning, Lifehack, new years resolution, read, reading, speed read, students, studying | 51 comments»

Free Books From Peter McWilliams

How nice, all those great books that Peter McWilliams put out in the 90s are now available for nothing at his website!

Titles like Everything We Wish We Had Learned About Life In School — But Didn’t and How To Survive The Loss Of A Love are all included with links to individual chapters and distributors.

Most of what Peter writes is quite brief and free-flowing. Have a look… » Continue

August 6 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: books | 4 comments»

14 Ways to Cultivate a Lifetime Reading Habit

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” — W. Somerset Maugham

Somewhere after “lose weight”, “stop procrastinating”, and “fall in love”, “read more” is one of the top goals that many people set for themselves. And rightly so: A good book can be hugely satisfying, can teach you about things beyond your daily horizons, and can create… » Continue

June 25 2007 | By Leo | Tagged: books, habit, reading | 55 comments»

Goodreads: book networking

Goodreads is a a splash of social networking mixed with the library. Goodreads lets you network with other readers to find great reading material and read reviews. If you wonder what other people are reading or if you have a hard time discovering great content, Goodreads looks like the site for you.

Let’s make reading fun again. Somehow, reading books seems to have gotten a bad… » Continue

April 6 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: books, Communication, Lifestyle, reading, Technology | 3 comments»

Choose a book!

Riddle of the day: What do you get when you ask a community of lifelong learners to recommend their current favorite reads?

Answer: The 3rd Annual A Love Affair with Books, newly hosted for 2007 on Joyful Jubilant Learning.

This recent forum, held throughout the past month delivered some truly terrific recommendations. Although the bookfest officially ended with March, the comment conversation there continues to be lively as readers… » Continue

April 5 2007 | By Rosa | Tagged: ALAWB, book-reviews, books, reading | no comments»

aNobii - Share, Track & Buy Books

“Print Is Dead” - Egon

A few years ago I tried out an online book cataloguing site called LibraryThing. It’s still going strong, with an excellent community of readers contributing.

aNobii is a newcomer, a clear rival to LibraryThing. It’s feature full and doesn’t come up short in any way. While LibraryThing has most of the same features as aNobii, it doesn’t look nearly as good.

Aesthetics aside, aNobii isn’t missing anything… » Continue

March 27 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: books, web2.0 | 12 comments»

Free Book Feed from Gutenberg

Speaking of books…

Project Gutenberg has been collecting a healthy database of digital books for something like 30 years now. Tonnes of free books, searchable and downloadable; now they have an RSS feed for updates.

If you’ve exhausted the already 20,000 full catalog, now you can keep track of new additions through this feed.

Project Gutenberg Recently Posted or Updated EBooks - [Gutenberg]

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March 27 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: books, online | no comments»

Book Review: Change Activist Make Big Things Happen Fast

A Carmel McConnell book published by Perseus Publishing, 2001, 209 pages. Nonfiction: Business and personal growth.The book premise is that operating a profitable business and maintaining your personal principles are not mutually exclusive endeavors.

Upon opening this book my initial reaction was, “Hey, the publishers made a mistake.” The inside jacket of the book is printed like a stenographers pad. You know, top to bottom. Then, the very next… » Continue

November 15 2006 | By Reginald | Tagged: book, books, review | 1 comment»

How to Read

xBlog pointed me towards a great post about how one might go about reading books by Jim Collins, Michael Hammer, Tom Peters, Peter Drucker, and others. It’s packed with great ideas that “should” be top of our mind, but that for whatever reason we might forget in the heat of the moment.

How to Read Jim Collins, etc. - [Cyberlibris via xBlog]… » Continue

June 5 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: books, howto, jimcollins, reading, tompeters, xBlog | 1 comment»

Summer Reading Part Deux

Corante has a great list of reading materials for aspiring knowledge workers. In North America, summer is upon us, so maybe we’re also prespiring knowledge workers. The list has some greats. Here are a few: