Following up on my free techie books post, wherein I realize I’m keeping a bunch of heavy atoms in my orbit I’d be more free without, I’ve finally decided to seriously break up with my books. This is really part of a much longer process that began the first time I had to move, but now I’m really going for the bone. I’m putting a pile of mass-market paperbacks and other low-value pulp on my stoop this evening, but I’ve got a rather lengthy list of books that I’m going to consider selling on Half.com or taking to The Strand. However, before I do that, I’d be happy to give these away to you, dear reader, if you’re willing to pick them up or cover postage (of course, offer stands only if you intend to keep or use, not sell, the thing):

Geeky paperbacks

• Home Hacking Projects (O’Reilly)
• 3 Flash MX books (from the curb)

Newer hardcovers

• Old Man & the Sea - Hemingway
• Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (enormous)
• Shadow Cities - great book on the edges of global urbanization
• Gone to New York (essays from Ian Frazier, New Yorker writer)
• Campus, Inc. (Great late-90s take on corporatization of US campuses)
• The Social Life of Information (Great look IT from a humane perspective)
• Dude, Where’s my Country? - Michael Moore
• How to cheat at poker - Penn Gillette
• The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Joe Trippi
• Lion Witch and the Wardrobe - Very nice hardcover edition
• Cuckoo’s Egg - Clifford Stoll (Early hardcover edition - great true “detective” story on the early Internet)
• Made to Stick (Great recent marketing book)

“Coffee table” books

• Not So Big House
• Our Dumb Century (The Onion)
• Penguin Soup for the Soul (Tom Tomorrow)

Trade paperbacks

• Fountain at the Center of the World (signed)
• Under the Black Flag (Pirates, yaar!)
• The Baffler - the god that sucked (Had an extra; I [heart] thomas frank)
• Conceptual Blockbusting
• Lust for Life (Irving Stone) - great biography of van Gogh
• Bookmark Now - Kevin Smokler’s first book
• The Grand Chessboard - Brzezinski
• Rules for Radicals - a classic
• Don’t Think of an Elephant
• Frames of Mind
• Visual Thinking
• Emergence
• Pirate Hunter - enjoyed this Captain Kidd bio
• Surely You Must be Joking Mr. Feinman - brilliant, funny
• Dragonlance Chronicles - last of my TSR fantasy paperbacks, LIFO
• Silicon Snake Oil - Clifford Stoll’s treatise against online culture
• Rivethead - Flint!
• Dealers of Lightening - Great history of the ‘net
• Computer
• Visual Thinking

older hardcovers

• Republic of Plato
• Social Contract
• The Scarlet Letter (Leather bound, early 1900s, UK)
• Robinson Crusoe (Leather bound, early 1900s, UK)
• Socialism & Syndicalism (Snowden, Philip) UK
• Decartes Selections (Eaton, hardcover)
• Island of Dr. Moreau (hardcover)

DVDs

• The Awful Truth Season 2
• Spiderman 2

CDs

• Negativland - Seeland

DOS Software

• Wing Commander (Original Box)
• Ultimate Collection (Original Box)

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