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Books

2024-10-04: 'The Age of Surveillance Capitalism' explains why Big Tech does what it does, and why it's dangerous

2024-09-01: Another great free e-books offer from Verso, a publisher that continues to release at least one book …

2024-08-25: Station Eleven is a highly compelling novel about humanity in the age of a very deadly pandemic

2024-08-16: Gotta say, currently being in the midst of the outstanding book ‘The Age of Surveillance …

2024-08-14: 📚 Finished reading Starting & Running a Business All-in-One For Dummies by Colin Barrow. At …

2024-08-09: 📚 Finished reading Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway. Sci-fi detective noir, what’s not to love …

2024-08-06: One of my favourite publishers in terms of their typical subject matter, Verso Books, is temporarily …

2024-08-01: Naomi Alderman's 'The Future' further fed my big tech scepticism

2024-06-28: Rory Stewart's book reveals the total dysfunction behind Britain's political system

2024-06-04: Free music streaming and more from your local library

2024-06-02: Professor Etchells explains his personal experience and the scientific research around playing computer games

2024-05-15: Between Death and Life shares interview transcripts from people who claim to know what happens after you die

2024-05-13: Publishers are receiving a deluge of AI-generated dross

2024-05-11: 'Ghost Hunter' details some of Hans Holzer's spooky cases

2024-04-27: Remove DRM from Amazon Kindle books with Calibre

2024-04-25: Georgi Gospodinov's 'The Physics of Sorrow'

2024-04-21: 'Becoming a Data Head' tries to teach you how best to think about data projects

2024-03-24: Doctorow's Martin Hench returns to sort out more all-too-real corporate crimes in 'The Bezzle'

2024-03-17: Theresa May's latest book educates us about (other people's) abuses of power

2024-03-14: Perelandra Bookshop, in Fort Collins, Colorado, has a “reader-in-residence” program. A …

2024-03-02: The PK Cookbook argues for the benefits of a high fat, high fibre, low carb diet

2024-02-29: Reliving the story of Britain's shortest-serving Prime Minister with Harry Cole's 'Out of the Blue'

2024-02-22: 📚 Finished reading In Ascension by Martin MacInnes. We start by learning about the childhood of our …

2024-01-21: The world yearns for its past in Gospodinov's Time Shelter

2023-12-31: My year in books, 2023