Books are nice. I like books, libraries, bookshelves, bookstores, books in pictures, books in hands, books in public spaces. Consider me ailed with tsundoku. There's definitely a book for everyone and I've found great joy in the lending and receiving of books; sometimes, I might read just to convey — and books are changing: this is also a reaction to that. (I am not oblivious to this page consisting mostly of non-fiction, technical, or self-help literature — maybe this will improve with time).
Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope, the telescope, are extensions of his sight; the telephone is the extension of his voice; then we have the plow and the sword, extensions of the arm. But the book is something else altogether: the book is an extension of memory and imagination.
Jorge Luis Borges
Aprendendo a viver |
Clarice Lispector |
Børnehistorier |
Peter Bichsel |
Gödel, Escher, Bach |
Douglas Hofstadter |
The Design of Everyday Things |
Donald A. Norman |
The Great Mental Models |
Shane Parrish |
The Importance of Being Educable |
Leslie Valiant |
Tools for Conviviality |
Ivan Illich |
As causas do atraso Português |
Nuno Palma |
Because Internet |
Gretchen McCulloch |
Hackers & Painters |
Paul Graham |
O mapa e o território |
Michel Houellebecq |
Portugal: A Revolução ImpossÃvel |
Phil Mailer |
Se numa noite de inverno um viajante |
Italo Calvino |
Serotonina |
Michel Houllebecq |
Sobre a Leitura |
Marcel Proust |
An Introduction to Danish Culture |
Norman Berdichevsky |
Ecology of Wisdom |
Arne Næss |
Grokking Simplicity |
Eric Normand |
How To Design Programs |
Robert Bruce Findler, Matthias Felleisen, Matthew Flatt, Shriram Krishnamurthi |
How to Do Nothing |
Jenny Odell |
How to Take Smart Notes |
Sönke Ahrens |
Strangers To Ourselves |
Rachel Aviv |
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! |
Richard Phillips Feynman |
The Boy Who Could Change the World |
Aaron Swartz |
The Poetics of Space |
Gaston Bachelard |
The Shallows |
Nicholas Carr |