Literate Scientist

Due to my Mod N Reading System I had to suspend this blog because N became large (about 100 or more books) and there wasn’t enough read material to review. Now I accumulated some books fully read from cover to cover and many others read to a sufficient number of pages to make an opinion and suggest recommendations. So I’m resuming this blog and plan to write about the next book tomorrow. It will be a history of social sciences. I plan to introduce a new book every day or so. I also made an alteration to Mod N reading to include thematic encyclopedias. Stay tuned.

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Here is the reading system I devised to read all books that I review on this blog:

Mod N Reading System

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Finally I adopted the following process for book reviews:

1. Start reading a book.

2. After sometime put an initial reveiw on this blog.

3. Iteratively and incrementally revise it during read. For example, add additional bits as soon as I discover something good or bad worth mentioning in the book review.

4. When the book is finished put its review blog post into a category: From Cover To Cover.

5. Put the review on Amazon and mark this appropriately by putting its blog post into another category: Reviewed on Amazon.

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OpenTask plans to publish the extended and edited version of this blog as a book:

Literate Scientists and Their Books: An Independent Guide to Understanding Reality (ISBN: 978-1906717520)

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Yesterday it had been one year since I wrote the first blog post here:

The Nonlinear Universe: Chaos, Emergence, Life

Since then I wrote reviews about more than 35 books and I plan at least to double them this year.

In 2008 my book collection expanded a bit. I bought about 66 books on Amazon US, 40 books on Amazon UK, 6 books on Amazon Canada and several dozens of books in local bookshops so there is much to review here

I wish a Happy New Year to all voracious readers in the World!

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