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Book Disposal
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Sunday, 31 January 2010 20:31 |
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These are the final 13 books I have selected for discarding this month. 
Four more computer books. Programming the Windows 95 User Interface wasn’t really that great a book so getting rid of it is not a problem. A few years ago, I thought the Palm would be a good platform to develop on. I never did anything for it and this book is obsolete. The two Novell books are seriously out of date. 
Horrors! I had two copies of Storage Projects. I don’t need two, so one is getting axed. The Money Spinner is a Gambler’s Fallacy system for making money in stocks – so it doesn’t work. The other three books are really self promotional books. 
The Apple II and IIe Computer Graphics book is obsolete. Same with the Food Report Card. Professional Presence was never a good book. And the Linguaphone French Course is of no use.
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Book Disposal
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Thursday, 28 January 2010 20:54 |
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More obsolete computer manuals. I thought I had discarded the whole set before I started this exercise. Apparently not. 
Yep, more obsolete computer manuals. And a book on OS/2 Warp programming.  More obsolete computer and electronic books. The book on Electronic Circuit Design was pretty lame when I bought it – age has not improved it.  Obsolete manual for obsolete hardware. 
The Pixilated Peeress is not a bad read. Fairly standard story / plot, but L. Sprague de Camp is masterful in his use of language – assuming you like that sort of thing. The Stones of Nomuru is, again, not a bad read, but certainly not something I am going to read again. Logan’s World was a really bad sequel to the original Logan’s Run (and, when I find my copy of Logan’s run, I’ll probably get rid of it too).  Lost Souls was a good read up until the end, when the story all of a sudden ends, characters suddenly no longer behave the way the did for the first 95% of the book. Definitely not worth rereading. "Did You Spot the Gorilla? is a fairly good read, gets you with a number of “tricks”, but nothing about it makes me want to keep or reread it. I could not get into The Fishers of Darksea so I never finished reading it. And an obsolete game programming manual. 
Received these during a company secret Santa gift exchange. Don’t know why people thing I am into these sorts of things (probably because I am serious and analytical, with awkward social skills). 
Yet another obsolete computer manual. Jump Start Your Brain doesn’t really do it for me – and, at over 400 pages, I found it too long (my preference is for books that are generally under 200 pages).
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Book Disposal
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Thursday, 28 January 2010 20:04 |
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An obsolete software reference manual. 
Two old (and slightly musty) books. Mother Goose is a good reference for nursery rhymes (but there are so many variants, it is hard to define which are authoritative). The 365 Bedtime Stories really wasn’t that interesting. 
Two more obsolete computer books. 
A story about a hawk and a not too bad book on Barbiturates. 
I bought this over 30 year ago at a second hand bookstore on 45th Avenue. The bookstore is not longer there and this book is going the same way. 
Manage your money well or you will have problems. 
Tapestry of Dark Souls was not that good of a book. Rising Stars was pretty good and I wouldn’t mind reading the rest in the series, but there is nothing to make me want to reread it. 
An obsolete astronomy book.
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Book Disposal
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Sunday, 24 January 2010 20:12 |
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Maybe I am cheating here, this is a two book set. 
More books I don’t need on writing. A Dash of Style was a disappointing follow up to Noah Lukeman’s The First Five Pages 
An obsolete book on AI. A novel I just couldn’t finish. An obsolete pop-culture book. And a female psychologist’s story of how monogamy is a myth, but you can still have a monogamous and honest relationship. 
If you want to make money, then sell something. Survive a recession by being wise with you money. The Silver Child is a rather disturbing children’s books (well, it has disturbing imagery). An obsolete computer reference manual. 
Four hardcover books. Three are unremarkable. The Web of Fire I haven’t read, but (horrors!) I have two copies.
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Sunday, 24 January 2010 00:19 |
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I must confess I had intended to discard 3 or 4 books per day and write a little blurb about each of them. Unfortunately, that is not the way it is going. sigh. 
Two reference books from some ancient software I once owned. I threw away most of the manuals as I was unpacking my books in Madrid. Seems I missed these two. 
An extremely disappointing book. I was hoping for much more from Richard Lewontin. The arguments are quite week and definitely not remotely indicative of the insight he is capable of. 
“Hello Laziness” is a cynical look at the world of work (from a French perspective, no less). An interesting read, but not a keeper. The other is pretty ancient and not noteworthy. 
Another book on writing that I don’t need. The advice in “Investment Strategies” is nothing unique or special and can be easily found elsewhere. 
The two children’s books are not really that interesting and definitely not worth saving for my kids. I bought “Ice Tomb” in support of a local author (it is even autographed), but the book is really not that good – quite unbelievable actually. The self help book is interesting, but after reading a few dozen you realize that any change you need to make in your life has to come from somewhere deep inside you and this book definitely doesn’t offer any great insight into making that change happen. 
Obsolete dictionary, I have newer, bigger and better ones. I am never going to reread “Wargames” and the book wasn’t that good. “The Elements of Style” is brand new; I bought it because almost every book on writing recommends it or uses it as the “gold” reference – I found it a disappointment. “Far Horizons” is an anthology of side stories in various fictional universes – the premise is to allow the author of those universes explore a little farther without detracting from the universe they’ve already creating; ugh, dull. 
The basic point of book son getting rich is: sell, sell, sell. If you want to get rich, then sell stuff. Ask people for money and give them something in exchange. 
Some more books I am never going to read again.
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