{"id":121,"date":"2005-07-21T01:03:33","date_gmt":"2005-07-20T23:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/21\/book-baton\/"},"modified":"2006-09-03T15:03:46","modified_gmt":"2006-09-03T13:03:46","slug":"book-baton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/21\/book-baton\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Baton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A book baton, another from the series of this years\u2019 run-around-the-blogosphere marathons, has been passed to me by my fellow blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/codylindley.com\/\">Cody Lindley<\/a>. I found this one interesting, because I swallowed quite a few books lately, some of them web design\/development related.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Not being a fan of novels, fiction and such, although I used to write all kinds of prose in a high-school (even being awarded, but that\u2019s another story), the book has to be about my hobbies or work to make me want to read it.<\/p>\n<h3>Number of books on a <del>shelf<\/del> <ins> floor<\/ins><\/h3>\n<p>Don\u2019t have shelves, but I have floor. There is circa 40cm tall pile of books near my desk.<\/p>\n<h3>Last book purchased<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1568984480\/maratzcom-20\/\">Thinking With Type<\/a> by Ellen Lupton (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkingwithtype.com\/\">companion site<\/a>).<\/p>\n<h3>Book reading right now<\/h3>\n<p>English Croatian Dictionary by Rudolf Filipovi&#263;. It\u2019s a classic.<\/p>\n<h3>Last 5 or so books read<\/h3>\n<p>In no particular order, some read for the <em>x<\/em>th time&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/9061132711\/maratzcom-20\/\">Japan<\/a> by Brigitte Bizalion (a gift from my wifey, the art\/history of the Japan)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1860541003\/maratzcom-20\/\">Bull Terrier<\/a> by Peter Larkin (to recover from the hearthache for our lost girls)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0679754814\/maratzcom-20\/\">The Complete Book of Butt and Legs<\/a> by Kurt Brungardt (on a weekly basis)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0735712506\/maratzcom-20\/\">Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web<\/a> by Christina Wodtke (work)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1590593812\/maratzcom-20\/\">Web standards solutions<\/a> by Dan Cederholm (work)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1568984480\/maratzcom-20\/\">Designing with web standards<\/a> by Jeffrey Zeldman (work)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Meaningful Books<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0380012863\/maratzcom-20\/\">Jonathan Livingston Seagull<\/a> by Richard Bach<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0156012197\/maratzcom-20\/\">The Little Prince<\/a> by Antoine de Saint-Exup\u00e9ry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>You must not fail! Good bye and Good luck!<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirkobeovic.com\/\">Mirko Beovi&#263;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/himike.org\/\">Mike<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/phark.typepad.com\/phark\/\">Rundle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yesterdayishere.com\/\">Bojan Janjanin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jasongraphix.com\/\">Jason Beaird<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fecklessmind.com\/\">Anatoly Papirovsky<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Marko listens<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}