Books
One benefit of living in a small house is that it enforces a certain discipline on one’s collections. Here are a few of the books that have proved useful enough to have earned a spot on my otherwise crowded bookshelf.
The Canon
The Classics
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Designing Visual Interfaces: Communication Oriented Techniques, Kevin Mullet and Darrell Sano
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The Elements of Typographic Style, version 2.4, Robert Bringhurst
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The Design of Sites: Patterns, Principles, and Processes for Crafting a Customer-Centered Web Experience,
Douglas van Duyne, James Landay, and Jason Hong
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Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2nd Edition, Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville
The Relevant
- “Indeed, the best books have a use, like sticks and stones, which is above
or beside their design, not anticipated in the preface, not concluded in
the appendix.”
- Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, 1849
- “Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read
them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation
of their contents.”
- Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, 1851
