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	<title>Chris J. Karr: Weblog &#187; Books</title>
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		<title>&#8220;It&#8217;s like Harry Potter meets Philip Marlowe.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.aetherial.net/weblog/2009/07/its-like-harry-potter-meets-philip-marlowe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm a fan of long-form entertainment and it doesn't get any long-form than stories that span thousands of pages over many novels. I really enjoyed Stephen King's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Tower_(series)">"Dark Tower"</a> series and I'm eagerly awaiting the final book of Katherine Kerr's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deverry_cycle">Deverry cycle</a>.

Earlier this year, I had the good fortune to discover Jim Butcher's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dresden_Files">"Dresden Files"</a>. I had seen <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dresden_Files_(TV_series)">the television series on Sci-Fi</a> some time ago and I was interested to check out the books. In short, I started out with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Front_(novel)">"Storm Front"</a> on my Sony Reader and proceeded to read the rest of the books in a span of about three months on the Kindle. It's a fun series and one that I highly recommend.]]></description>
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		<title>Kindle Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ordered the Amazon Kindle at the end of February and had the device by the first of March. In that time, I've read the following books:

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/074321580X?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=aetherialnu-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=074321580X">The Business of Software: What Every Manager, Programmer, and Entrepreneur Must Know to Thrive and Survive in Good Times and Bad</a>  (Michael Cusumano)

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0451459407?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=aetherialnu-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0451459407">Death Masks (The Dresden Files, Book 5)</a> (Jim Butcher)

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590596234?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=aetherialnu-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1590596234">Eric Sink on the Business of Software</a> (Eric Sink)

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591842573?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=aetherialnu-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1591842573">Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur</a> (Pamela Slim)

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0451462025?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=aetherialnu-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0451462025">Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, Book 2)</a> (Jim Butcher)

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0451462343?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=aetherialnu-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0451462343">Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, Book 3)</a> (Jim Butcher)

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1934356255?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=aetherialnu-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1934356255">iPhone SDK Development</a> (Adamson &#038; Dudney)

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006135323X?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=aetherialnu-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=006135323X">Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions</a> (Dan Ariely)

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591841496?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=aetherialnu-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1591841496">Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big</a> (Bo Burlingham)

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0451462750?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=aetherialnu-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0451462750">Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, Book 4)</a> (Jim Butcher)

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670031607?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=aetherialnu-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0670031607">Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid</a> (Denis Leary)

If we  use March 1 as the Kindle start date, roughly fourteen weeks have elapsed since I acquired it. In that time, I've read eleven books, averaging 78% of a book read per week. 

And this doesn't count the books that I've been reading in print or via Audible. If we factored those in, I'm probably averaging over a book a week in total.

Wow.]]></description>
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