Book Notes

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I Love Reading

This section of my website contains notes on books I have read. I am sharing the notes I made while reading. I hope you enjoy.

I own a lot of books. Last year I decided to catalogue and organize them using the Dewey Decimal System. So far, there are 940 catalogued and labelled books.

One of the reasons I have so many books is for my kids. I love surprising my kids with new finds I have plucked from my shelves. Over the years I have searched out and acquired many of my favourite books I read as a child. Of course, we have a great selection of lego books. My favourites are by Sean Kenney.

I have also collected a lot of books. GoodReads is a great service and I really like their api integration. Plus the iOS app is great - I can scan the barcodes of my books and easily add them to my collections.

One of the reasons I have so many books is for my kids. I love surprising my kids with new finds I have plucked from my shelves. Over the years I have searched out and acquired many of my favourite books I read as a child. Of course, we have a great selection of lego books. My favourites are by Sean Kenney.

Read more on why reading is so important.

My favorite places to find books are the library and second hand stores. I visited the Goodwill annual book sale many times finding treasures such as Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar from 1903. I have visited the strand in New York and bought so many books I could barely close my suitcases.

In addition to kids books, I have a nice collection of books on 17th century England. My favorite books are those that discuss nature. I really enjoy the work by Michael Pollan. I recently discovered books by Diana Beresford-Kroeger; her ideas for bioplanning and creating ecologically valuable gardens are fascinating and worth reading.

I also highly recommend Safari Online books. I have a subscription to this amazing service so that I could read the latest and best tech books.

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I love books. I have read a lot of books. There are lots more I want to read.

I believe everyone should own a library of unread books.

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