Ce cărți am pe Amazon Kindle și de ce fac lista asta?

O perioadă bună am zis ca este OK să am cărțile în format digital pe Amazon Kindle și comoditatea este un factor important în decizia asta, dar un eveniment recent cu Facebook m-a făcut să mă gândesc mai bine la decizia asta. Recent Facebook mi-a cerut să mă identific cu act de identitate și nu accepta permisul de conducere de UK.

Mesajul spunea că dacă nu îmi este acceptată identificarea, atunci îmi va fi închis contul de Facebook. Nedrept, aș zice, dar nu m-ar fi speriat prea tare. Facebook nu mai are demult importanța pe care o avea pentru mine. Din fericire a acceptat pașaportul, dar asta m-a făcut să mă gândesc serios la tot felul de conturi online pe care le am și dependența mea de informațiile de acolo. Așa ajungem la Amazon.

Pe Amazon am 162 de ebook-uri și, dacă Amazon îmi închide contul pentru varii motive în viitor, atunci NU am șansa de a-mi lua cărțile de acolo pentru că nu sunt interoperabili cu alte platforme de citit cărți. Cu alte cuvinte, nu îti poți muta lucrurile în altă parte. Așadar, pregătesc lista de cărți de mai jos în ideea că voi avea măcar numele cărților în caz că pierd contul în viitor. Ideal ar fi să cumpăr variantele fizice ale cărților, deși arunc comoditatea pe geam. Viitoarele cărți le voi cumpăra în format fizic.

Lista magnifică de cărți online luate prin Amazon până la data de 28 octombrie 2020:

1. The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition, Don Norman
2. Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet (FSG Originals x Logic), Tim Hwang
3. Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain, David Eagleman
4. Dune: The Gateway Collection (Gateway Essentials), Frank Herbert
5. The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn, Richard W. Hamming, Bret Victor
6. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution – 25th Anniversary Edition, Steven Levy
7. Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science, Stuart Ritchie
8. Breaking the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight before NASA, Amy Shira Teitel
9. The Life of Dad: The Making of a Modern Father, Anna Machin
10. Writing Is Designing: Words and the User Experience, Michael J. Metts, Andy Welfle, Nick Madden
11. Meltdown: Financial Times’ best business books of the year, 2018, Chris Clearfield, András Tilcsik
12. The Red Market: On the Trail of The World’s Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers and Child Traffickers, Scott Carney
13. The Idea of the Brain: A History, Matthew Cobb
14. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (Developer Best Practices), Petzold Charles
15. The Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World, Sharon Weinberger
16. Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, From Pointless Bones to Broken Genes, Nathan Lents
17. Inside the Human Genome: A Case for Non-Intelligent Design, John C. Avise
18. Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble, Dan Lyons
19. Do Colors Exist?: And Other Profound Physics Questions, Seth Stannard Cottrell
20. User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design are Changing the Way We Live, Work & Play, Cliff Kuang, Robert Fabricant
21. The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths, Mariana Mazzucato
22. The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses, Dan Carlin
23. Plato and the Nerd: The Creative Partnership of Humans and Technology (The MIT Press), Edward Ashford Lee
24. The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the Rise of Cyberculture, Brian Dear
25. The Surprising Science of Meetings: How You Can Lead Your Team to Peak Performance, Steven G. Rogelberg
26. We Do Things Differently: The Outsiders Rebooting Our World, Mark Stevenson
27. You Don’t Know JS: Types & Grammar, Kyle Simpson
28. You Don’t Know JS: ES6 & Beyond, Kyle Simpson
29. You Don’t Know JS: Async & Performance, Kyle Simpson
30. You Don’t Know JS: this & Object Prototypes, Kyle Simpson
31. You Don’t Know JS: Scope & Closures, Kyle Simpson
32. Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, Gretchen McCulloch
33. You Don’t Know JS: Up & Going, Kyle Simpson
34. Clean Coder, The: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers (Robert C. Martin Series), Robert C. Martin
35. Fracture (First Colony Book 8), Ken Lozito
36. How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone, Brian McCullough
37. How to Stay Alive in the Woods: A Complete Guide to Food, Shelter and Self-Preservation Anywhere, Bradford Angier
38. The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution, T.R. Reid
39. Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution, Fred Vogelstein
40. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Malcolm Gladwell
41. Gears of War Aspho Fields, Karen Traviss
42. The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve, Steve Stewart-Williams
43. Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We’re Thriving in a New World of Possibility, David Weinberger
44. How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories (The MIT Press), Alex Rosenberg
45. Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything, Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen
46. Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words, Albert Einstein
47. Vigilance (First Colony Book 7), Ken Lozito
48. Calculus in 5 Hours: Concepts Revealed so You Don’t Have to Sit Through a Semester of Lectures, Dennis Jarecke
49. Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors, Matt Parker
50. The Diet Myth: Why the Secret to Health and Weight Loss is Already in Your Gut, Tim Spector
51. Gutenberg the Geek (Kindle Single), Jeff Jarvis
52. Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes, Nathan H. Lents
53. Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell, Phil Lapsley, Steve Wozniak
54. America the Ingenious: How a Nation of Dreamers, Immigrants, and Tinkerers Changed the World, Kevin Baker
55. The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them), Lucy Jones
56. Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that changed Everything, Steven Levy
57. Emergence (First Colony Book 6), Ken Lozito
58. The Dream Machine, M. Mitchell Waldrop
59. The Daily Telegraph Guide to Investing: The Straightforward Guide That Professional Investors Don’t Want You to Have, Rebecca Burn-Callander
60. Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom), Adam Fisher
61. The Origin of Names, Words and Everything in Between: (Word Origins, Trivia Book for Adults, Funny Trivia, Origin of Words), Patrick Foote
62. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, Yuval Noah Harari
63. Digital Genesis: The Future of Computing, Robots and AI, Christopher Barnatt
64. Quantum Computing since Democritus, Scott Aaronson
65. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, Cathy O’Neil
66. The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change), Clayton M. Christensen
67. Discovery (First Colony Book 5), Ken Lozito
68. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Max Tegmark
69. The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language, Melvyn Bragg
70. Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor, Virginia Eubanks
71. Algorithms For Dummies (For Dummies (Computers)), John Paul Mueller, Luca Massaron
72. She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity, Carl Zimmer
73. Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour, Kate Fox
74. Psychology for Designers: How to apply psychology to web design and the design process., Joe Leech
75. Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray, Sabine Hossenfelder
76. The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts, Gary Chapman
77. Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging, Afua Hirsch
78. How Apollo Flew to the Moon (Springer Praxis Books), W. David Woods
79. Resurgence: The Ship Series // Book Five, Jerry Aubin
80. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, Steven Pinker
81. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About The World – And Why Things Are Better Than You Think, Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund
82. Sanctuary (First Colony Book 4), Ken Lozito
83. Fatal Flight: The True Story of Britain’s Last Great Airship, Bill Hammack
84. Legacy (First Colony Book 3), Ken Lozito
85. Nemesis (First Colony Book 2), Ken Lozito
86. The History of Science and Technology, Bryan Bunch, Alexander Hellemans
87. Genesis (First Colony Book 1), Ken Lozito
88. The Game Theorist’s Guide to Parenting: How the Science of Strategic Thinking Can Help You Deal with the Toughest Negotiators You Know–Your Kids, Paul Raeburn, Kevin Zollman
89. Rendezvous: The Ship Series // Book Four, Jerry Aubin
90. Homeward: The Ship Series // Book Three, Jerry Aubin
91. Revolution: The Ship Series // Book Two, Jerry Aubin
92. Academia Obscura: The Hidden Silly Side of Higher Education, Glen Wright
93. Danger Dolan Countdown, Danger Dolan
94. Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, Janine M. Benyus
95. Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for Ourselves, One Rainy Day at a Time, Rob Temple
96. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Michael Pollan
97. Basic Electrical Troubleshooting for Everyone, Darrel P. Kaiser
98. A Child’s First Book on Gravitational Waves: You, Me and the Dancing Black Holes, Edward Lundgren, David Bondarescu, Mihai Bondarescu, Ruxandra Bondarescu, Mariana Bondarescu
99. Mechanical Engineering 101, WAGmob
100. Engineering Math, WAGmob
101. The De-Textbook: The Stuff You Didn’t Know About the Stuff You Thought You Knew, Cracked.com
102. Ever Wonder Why?: Here Are the Answers!, Douglas B. Smith
103. Electric Circuits (Stick Figure Physics Tutorials), Sarah Allen
104. How Engineers Create the World: The Public Radio Commentaries of Bill Hammack, Bill Hammack
105. Feynman Lectures Simplified 1A: Basics of Physics & Newton’s Laws (Everyone’s Guide to the Feynman Lectures on Physic), Robert Piccioni
106. 59 Seconds: Think A Little, Change A Lot, Richard Wiseman
107. The Brain: The Story of You, David Eagleman
108. The Bad Food Bible: Why You Can (and Maybe Should) Eat Everything You Thought You Couldn’t, Aaron E. Carroll, Nina Teicholz
109. Landfall: The Ship Series // Book One, Jerry Aubin
110. We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe, Jorge Cham, Daniel Whiteson
111. Even Faster Web Sites: Performance Best Practices for Web Developers, Steve Souders
112. Answers to Questions You’ve Never Asked: Explaining the ‘What If’ in Science, Geography and the Absurd, Joseph Pisenti
113. Scienceblind: Why Our Intuitive Theories About the World Are So Often Wrong, Andrew Shtulman
114. Connections, James Burke
115. JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, David Flanagan
116. Why Does Asparagus Make Your Wee Smell?: And 57 other curious food and drink questions, Andy Brunning
117. Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions Book 109), Frank Close
118. You Are Now Less Dumb: How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself, David McRaney
119. There Are No Electrons: Electronics for Earthlings, Kenn Amdahl
120. The Knowledge: How to Rebuild our World from Scratch, Lewis Dartnell
121. Don’t Put That in There!: And 69 Other Sex Myths Debunked, Aaron E. Carroll
122. Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes, Maria Konnikova
123. Outdoor Life: The Ultimate Survival Manual: 333 Skills That Will Get You Out Alive, Rich Johnson, The Editors of Outdoor Life
124. Why Evolution Is True, Jerry A. Coyne
125. Just Enough Physics, Rhett Allain, Khandan Simmons
126. Introducing Quantum Theory: A Graphic Guide (Introducing…), J.P. McEvoy, Oscar Zarate
127. How To Learn And Memorize Math, Numbers, Equations, And Simple Arithmetic (Magnetic Memory Series), Anthony Metivier
128. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions, Randall Munroe
129. But How Do It Know? – The Basic Principles of Computers for Everyone, J Clark Scott
130. Basic Machines and How They Work, Naval Education
131. 1800 Mechanical Movements, Devices and Appliances (Dover Science Books), Gardner D. Hiscox
132. Basic Hydraulic Systems and Components (Mechanics and Hydraulics), TSD Training
133. The Pioneer Detectives: Did a distant spacecraft prove Einstein and Newton wrong? (Kindle Single), Konstantin Kakaes
134. Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space (Kindle Single), Lisa Randall
135. Tales of the Rational : Skeptical Essays About Nature and Science, Massimo Pigliucci
136. Mathematics for the Nonmathematician (Dover Books on Mathematics), Morris Kline
137. Great Formulas Explained – Physics, Mathematics, Economics, Metin Bektas
138. Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World, Mark Miodownik
139. Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein – Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe, Mario Livio
140. An Underground Education: The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields, Richard Zacks
141. 10 Things You Might Not Know About Nearly Everything: A collection of fascinating historical, scientific and cultural facts about people, places and things, Mark Jacob, Stephan Benzkofer
142. The Huge Book of Amazing Facts – 1000+ Interesting Facts that Will Shock, Amuse and Amaze You!: The Ultimate Fun Facts Book, Jenny Kellett
143. The Wise Book of Whys, Daven Hiskey, Today I Found Out.com, Samantha Gudger
144. Fact or Fiction: Science Tackles 58 Popular Myths, Scientific American Editors
145. APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur—How to Publish a Book, Guy Kawasaki, Shawn Welch
146. You are Not So Smart, David McRaney
147. You Are Now Less Dumb: How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself, David McRaney
148. This Will Make You Smarter, John Brockman, David Brooks
149. You are Not So Smart, David McRaney
150. How to Write Seductive Web Copy: An Easy Guide to Picking Up More Customers, Henneke Duistermaat
151. Ice to the Eskimos: How to Market a Product Nobody Wants, Jon Spoelstra
152. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory, Brian Greene
153. You Are a Writer (So Start Acting Like One), Jeff Goins
154. Eight Amazing Engineering Stories, Bill Hammack, Patrick Ryan, Ziech Nick
155. The End of Business As Usual: Rewire the Way You Work to Succeed in the Consumer Revolution, Brian Solis
156. inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity, Tina Seelig
157. The End of Business As Usual: Rewire the Way You Work to Succeed in the Consumer Revolution, Brian Solis
158. Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom, Rebecca MacKinnon
159. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires, Tim Wu
160. When Search Meets Web Usability (Voices That Matter), Shari Thurow, Nick Musica
161. Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems (Voices That Matter), Steve Krug
162. Do the Work, Steven Pressfield