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What’s in your Kindle?

By Justin Long ⋅ September 14, 2009 ⋅ Email This Post Email This Post ⋅ Print This Post Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

The first page of my ‘most recently read items’ in Kindle right now:

1. Foreign Affairs. I have a monthly subscription and I just got an update.

2. Movement 2.0: the new levers of social change and why you can’t ignore them, from Steve Moore and the Mission Exchange. This is a downloaded file that I sent to my Kindle.

3. The lost history of Christianity by Philip Jenkins. This promises to be a wonderful trot through ancient Christianity in the Far East, which died out around 1500. I have long been fascinated by this period of history, so I’m looking forward to this book.

4. The world is curved. A highly recommended book by David Smick, which I am sampling. I’ll report later if it’s any good. Apparently he’s an advisor to lots of high powered finance guys.

5. Manifold Time. A free sci-fi novel from Amazon by Stephen Baxter, on one of those buy-the-first-novel-free-so-you’ll-want-to-buy-the-others-in-the-series deals. So far, the first one hasn’t made me want to buy the others. Lots of hard science, a fairly large smattering of anti-Christian polemic, and not much in the way of character development. Baxter’s stories have always left me a little cold and depressed for their black endings, but I thought surely the third time was the charm. Apparently not.

6. Birth Order Book by Dr. Kevin Lehman. My wife ordered this sample. We’ll probably buy the book; the first chapter was funny and insightful.

7. Treasure Island. Free HTML download, and eventually we’re going to get this read to our kids.

8. Linked: the new science of networks. An oldie-but-goodie in terms of swarming; I’m refreshing my memory of this. Lots of hard science related to networks. Considered a classic.

9. Free by Chris Anderson. This is an intriguing concept that few people really know how to carry off well. The best short summary I’ve found is here:

Anderson believes that the natural price of things that are abundant is zero, and information can be copied ad infinitum for so little that it becomes essentially free. Instead of fighting it, journalists and rock bands alike should embrace the attention-grabbing qualities of free value and focus on charging for things that are scarce, like private events and concert tickets.

10. Here comes everybody by Clay Shirky. I just finished this wonderful book which introduces some of the reasons for why it’s easier to organize today than at any other time in history. If you’re interested in swarming, I highly recommend this book along with Godin’s Tribes and Addison’s Movements that change the world.

11. Crowdsourcing: why the power of the crowd is driving the future of business, by Jeff Howe. Another book related to crowdsourcing (collaborative creation) in swarms.

12. Groundswell: winning in a world transformed by social technologies by Charlene Li. A sample of a book that might be interesting.

What are you reading now that you find interesting?

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