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156 items in 3 years? That is obscene. He averaged one purchase per week from amazon over this time period, which basically makes Amazon.com PB's religion.
Having Prime (free 2-day shipping) helps a lot. They sell almost everything: I've bought books, yes, but also protein powder, grocery items, exercise equipment, notebook batteries, tools, screws, jeans, and shoes.
Very little finance/investment reading. I am surprised.
Very little finance/investment reading. I am surprised.
my lame speculation: a.) once you're that wealthy, i don't think you care too much about 'get rich quick' or 'crazy investment strategies of the week' books anymore. you probably stash your money somewhere safe b.) i'm sure paul cares a lot more about hacking than the latest fads in finance/investment
Yet unless you have a good understanding of basic investment principles (and I mean principles grounded in rigorous theories which you will likely not find in the kinds of books you mention), you won't know what "safe" means.
93. Rules of the Game I thought Paul was married :)
156 items in 3 years? That is obscene. He averaged one purchase per week from amazon over this time period, which basically makes Amazon.com PB's religion.
If you s/Amazon.com/public library/, that is fairly typical of people who read a lot. There is a LiveJournal community called 50bookchallenge that encourages people to read 50 books a year, keep track of them, and share what they're reading with others. It has 7000+ members. My reading lists for 2003-2006: 2003: http://nostrademons.livejournal.com/24851.html 2004: http://nostrademons.livejournal.com/60579.html 2005:…
Having large piles of things, like books, makes it too easy to slip into a rut and stay in the same place doing the same thing out of mere inertia (more mass==more inertia, and books en masse are heavy).
Very little finance/investment reading. I am surprised.
my lame speculation: a.) once you're that wealthy, i don't think you care too much about 'get rich quick' or 'crazy investment strategies of the week' books anymore. you probably stash your money somewhere safe b.) i'm sure paul cares a lot more about hacking than the latest fads in finance/investment
156 items in 3 years? That is obscene. He averaged one purchase per week from amazon over this time period, which basically makes Amazon.com PB's religion.
I concurrently read 2-3 books per week; just finished one since yesterday morning. And it's not a hobby.
Er, I do know you can log into your account and check your past purchases very easily but that isn't very convenient if you want to post that list on your blog with links to the books.
Is there a convenient API call or do you have to resort to html scraping?
Can't find anything like that in the Amazon API documentation but maybe I'm just blind... :D
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If you s/Amazon.com/public library/, that is fairly typical of people who read a lot. There is a LiveJournal community called 50bookchallenge that encourages people to read 50 books a year, keep track of them, and share what they're reading with others. It has 7000+ members. My reading lists for 2003-2006: 2003: http://nostrademons.livejournal.com/24851.html 2004: http://nostrademons.livejournal.com/60579.html 2005:…
The money isn't my primary problem with buying so many books, though it is a factor...it's the weight of having all those books. When I moved from Austin I sold 26 boxes of books and several bookshelves. I promised myself I would never collect that many books again. I'm moving into an RV this week, and so had to sell all the remaining books (and any that I'd collected since that last move), and I sold 8 boxes of book…
This is excellent insight and something most people don't consider until they have to move for the first time after a few years in the real world and suddenly their possessions which used to fit in the back of a SUV in their college days now require a small truck to move.
The problem is also compounded if you are the kind of person that feels bad about throwing away perfectly good books etc... out.