Robin Sloan

I found Pet­roski a bit dis­ap­point­ing. It’s about the shelves as much if not more than the books, which is kind of cool, but…

Haha—actually that’s exactly what I was look­ing for. A friend saw my Deli­cious book­marks, all about Snead shelv­ing and such, and said, “You need to read this book!”

Also, about the Glut book: a cou­ple years ago I went to a pre­sen­ta­tion by the author and enjoyed it, since that kind of thing is exactly what I love learn­ing about. Then I read the book and wrote pages and pages of crit­i­cal notes for a neg­a­tive review — I was expect­ing a lot, but the book turned out to be sloppy in sev­eral ways. I decided not to fin­ish writ­ing the review or post it on my blog, because it would have just been mean (and prob­a­bly would have had its own intel­lec­tual errors, since I’m not exactly a super-​​expert). You might like it, of course, but that’s what I got out of it. :)