Rowan Simpson

Read any great books lately?  If so, what did you do with them when you finished them?

Earlier this year Seth Godin encouraged everybody who had purchased a copy of his latest book The Dip to sell or give away their copy, in an effort to double the number of people who had read it.  It’s a good thought.

So, encouraged by that, I’ve decided to follow my own advice and clear out some space on my bookshelf.

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This also gives me a great chance to try out the “Sell Yours” feature on Fishpond, where anybody can list second-hand books for sale and they appear on the site along side the new titles.

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If any of the titles below sound interesting to you it would be good to give them a new home – they are priced to sell from $9.95 and all at a significant discount to the price of a new copy.  I should also say, by way of promotion, that I’m a bit of a pedant when it comes to keeping books like new, so in most cases you’ll hardly be able to tell it’s not a new copy.

And, if you have a bookshelf full of ideas that could also be shared you might like to do the same (and maybe add a link to your list of items for sale in the comments here, so others can find them).

Books for sale:

• A Dagg at My Table: Selected Writings By John Clarke
• Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance By Atul Gawande
• Bulletproof Web Design: Improving Flexibility and Protecting Against Worst-Case Scenarios with XHTML and CSS By Dan Cederholm
• Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science By Atul Gawande
• Crimes Against Logic: Exposing the Bogus Arguments of Politicians, Priests, Journalists, and Other Serial Offenders By Jamie Whyte
• Defensive Design for the Web: How to Improve Error Messages, Help, Forms, and Other Online Crisis Points By Matthew Linderman
• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software By Erich Gamma
• Designing with Web Standards By Jeffrey Zeldman
• eBoys: The True Story of the Six Tall Men Who Backed eBay, Webvan and Other Billion-dollar Start-ups By Randall E. Stross
• Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software By Steven Johnson
• Everyday Zen: Love and Work By Charlotte Joko Beck
• Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today’s Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter By Steven Johnson
• Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change By Kent Beck
• Faster: The Acceleration of Just about Everything By James Gleick
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything By Steven D. Levitt
• Get Carter: The Hamish Carter Story By Phil Taylor
• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
• Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving in By Roger Fisher
• High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Frontend Engineers By Steve Souders
• It’s Not About The Bike: My Journey Back To Life By Lance Armstrong
• Joel on Software By Joel Spolsky
• Losing My Virginity: How I’ve Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way By Richard Branson
• Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life By Steven Johnson
• Naked Conversations: How Blogs Are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers By Robert Scoble
• New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World By Kevin Kelly
• Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative By Ken Robinson
• Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions By Dan Ariely
• Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery By Garr Reynolds
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids about Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! By Robert T. Kiyosaki
• Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior By Phil Jackson (NBA Coach)
• Semiotics: The Basics By Daniel Chandler
• Simplicity By Edward De Bono
• Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency By Tom DeMarco
• Something So Strong: Crowded House By Chris Bourke
• The Best Software Writing I Selected By Joel Spolsky
• The Brand Gap: Revised Edition By Marty Neumeier
• The Elegant Solution: Toyota’s Formula for Mastering Innovation By Matthew May
• The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Globalized World in the Twenty-first Century By Thomas Friedman
• U2 at the End of the World By Bill Flanagan
• Ubiquity: Why Catastrophes Happen By Mark Buchanan
• Universal Principles of Design: A Cross-Disciplinary Reference By William Lidwell
• Web Design for ROI: Turning Browsers Into Buyers & Prospects Into Leads By Lance Loveday
• Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook By Dan Cederholm
• Where Does the Weirdness Go?: Why Quantum Mechanics Is Strange, But Not as Strange as You Think By David Lindley
• Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind By Shunryu Suzuki

Note: I listed most of these a couple of days ago and some have already sold.  Plus I have some more on the shelf that I haven’t had time to list yet.  Check the site for an up-to-date list of the titles still available for sale.  And, if the title you wanted is already sold, I’m sorry but I only have one of each to sell – you could always buy a new copy (use the same links above).