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Brendan Nelson's Library

This page keeps track of my reading habits and reviews of books I've read. Apparently I only get through an average of 1 book each month, which isn't as much as I'd like.

Books I've read

Forms that Work: Designing Web Forms for Usability
Caroline Jarrett, Gerry Gaffney
The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes
The World Without Us
Alan Weisman
The Luzhin Defense
Vladimir Nabokov
Bank 2.0: How customer behaviour and technology will change the future of financial services
Brett King
Reviewed
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet
David Mitchell
On Roads: A Hidden History
Joe Moran
Reviewed
Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
Donald A. Norman
Reviewed
A, B, C and M: Road Numbering Revealed
Peter Bancroft, Andrew Emmerson
Reviewed
The Production of Space
Henri Lefebvre
Reviewed
Don Quixote
Miguel De Cervantes
Reviewed
Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate
Steven A. Johnson
Reviewed
Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Franz Kafka
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
Reviewed
Linked: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
Reviewed
Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become
Peter Morville
Reviewed
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Reviewed
The Trial (Penguin Modern Classics)
Franz Kafka
Reviewed
Responsive Environments: Architecture, Art and Design
Lucy Bullivant
Reviewed
T Zero
Italo Calvino
Reviewed
Death and Life of Great American Cities (Modern Library)
Jane Jacobs
Reviewed
Rapid Contextual Design
Holtzblatt, Wendell, Wood
Reviewed
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software
Steven Johnson
Reviewed
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Malcolm Gladwell
Reviewed
London: City of Disappearances
Iain Sinclair
Reviewed
Content Strategy for the Web (Voices That Matter)
Kristina Halvorson
Reviewed
Haunted Weather: Music, Silence, and Memory (Five Star Paperback)
David Toop
Reviewed
Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing
Adam Greenfield
Reviewed

My in-tray

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
Christopher Alexander

What I'm reading now

The Super-organism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies
B Holldobler, Edward O. Wilson

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About me

I'm a digital strategist and user experience designer who overanalyses mundane topics and draws diagrams about them. You'll find some of these on this blog as well as lots of other stuff. Find out more about me or, if you can't be bothered to read all that text, follow me on Twitter.
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From Google Reader
- Google Kills Its Own "Timeline" Feature
  November 12, 2011
  from ReadWriteWeb
  A shame - I liked the Timeline feature
- If the Nazis conquered America
  November 4, 2011
  from kottke.org
- Adventures with online-banking videos
  September 22, 2011
  from Felix Salmon