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About meAfter a good education, a misspent youth, and several careers I'm currently working as a freelance Web developer. Over the years I've kept an sophomoric interest in philosophical issues and their offshoots: political theory, theology, religious history, comparative religions, and so on. Two-thirds of what I read is non-fiction. I'm shy and polite and get around on a bicycle.

About my libraryI'm trying to keep up with my current activity and only slowly cataloging older material. There's a lot of catching up to do. Wide reading in all sorts of fiction is almost unrepresented here as is a fairly large technical library related to software development.

Most books I read get reviewed, these days. My star-ratings run high because I'm selective about what I read and they aren't linear -- I've tried to explain my "system" below.

eBooks get special treatment. With eBooks, I often rate the product, not the text. Bad formatting can render 5-star content unreadable, and even though it punishes the author along with the publisher by lowering aggregate ratings, still potential buyers should be made aware of flawed products. If there's a more nuanced way of rating eBooks I's love to hear it, but meanwhile a botched format gets the same rating as a failed text.

My rating "system":

        * seriously flawed -- I try to explain why in the text;
      ** flawed, but not without value;
    *** valuable, with weaknesses;
  **** solid performance, recommended;
***** world-changing, breath-taking, jaw-dropping, or something similar.

GroupsAmerican History, American Revolution & Founding Fathers History, Armchair Travellers, Books in 2025: The Future of the Book World, Colorado Bibliophiles, Philosophy and Theory, Political Philosophy, Progressive & Liberal!, Purely Programmers, Science Fiction Fans —show all groups, Second World War History