Comments on: A week in books

By: Alice

Alice — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:49:51 +0000

Topping Books sounds like the best bookshop ever. One day I will come to Bath not only to visit you but that bookshop. I read mainly fiction which I swap on bookmooch.com which is a fantastic website where you can swap your books for the price of postage. Better than charity shops because they only have the same detective novels again and again!

I love the look of ‘‘Schild’s Ladder’ I’ll have to track that one down.
Alice

By: Kyle Meyer

Kyle Meyer — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:20:29 +0000

Heya Elliot, I still need to write a bookshelf post of my own sometime. But I did just finish Robert Hoekman, Jr’s “Designing the Obvious”

If you’re into application design it’s an excellent read and has some good juicy bits that I wasn’t expecting.

By: sasaquatch

sasaquatch — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 03:14:12 +0000

hey,
that’s a nice collection. lately i’ve been reading ‘the zen of css design’ by dave shea and molly e. holzschlag; it’s given me a lot of pointers.

p.s. your website is awesome

By: Tim Beadle

Tim Beadle — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:19:39 +0000

Hi Elliot,

I wish I had more time to just go and peruse Topping’s. We live in Bath, but having a kid (soon to be plural) means we don’t just wander aimlessly round town very often.

Another friend recommended the shop, though, so I may have to redeem one of last year’s Christmas Vouchers (”A Saturday morning off to just read the paper and have a cup of coffee” or something).

I’ve just started reading Addicted to Mediocrity by Franky Schaeffer.

By: Robert Fauver

Robert Fauver — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:50:26 +0000

I just gave a friend of mine a copy of Cacas

I just got through GTD

I think I am going to buy something from http://www.mcsweeneys.net/ next

By: Elliot Jay Stocks

Elliot Jay Stocks — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:12:17 +0000

Thanks for the ideas, guys!

@ Alice: You’d love Toppings! Michael Palin is doing a signing there next week - how cool is that? (Sadly I can’t afford to go.)

@ Kyle: I must check it out; I’ve heard several people rave about that book.

@ Sasaquatch: Thanks for the kind words. Yeah, The Zen of CSS Design is a great book and the one that really got me into CSS. Reading that book was definitely a turning point.

@ Tim: I hope you get to redeem your voucher soon!

@ Robert: Ryan’s a big fan of GTD. I’ll try and borrow it from him at some point. Thanks for sharing the McSweeny’s link - looks like some rather interesting stuff on there!

By: Ian Stewart

Ian Stewart — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:50:21 +0000

Just finished Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. One of those not-sci-fi books that will be compared to other not-sci-fi books (”Why, this is too good to be sci-fi.”) for all time. I can’t recommend it enough.

By: Jason Robb

Jason Robb — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 03:51:20 +0000

That’s quite a thick A5 notebook, lovely cover as well. What will you be using to mark it up? Pen, pencil, marker, anything in particular?

I’ve been looking for a good logo book, perhaps I’ll give Tres Logo a try. The type book looks tempting, too. Oh boy, my wallet will feel this one…

P.S. Your track at FOWD NYC earlier this month was a hoot. Well done! =)