If you want to know what I read

Sometime back, Cobalt Paladin, a fellow blogger from the entrepreneurial circle asked me whether I have used BookJetty.com, a Singaporean based web 2.0 portal for the user to compile the books which he or she have read. He was interested in finding out the kind of books I read. I thought that it will be a good idea to consolidate a list of books which I believe, will be interesting for friends and strangers to look out for. I highly recommend this service to people who wants to consolidate and search for books on their reading list. I have actually met the founder and inventor behind this service in one of the SG Entrepreneurs bloggers pub crawl.

I do not have the luxury of reading so much as compared to the days when I was studying my PhD in Cambridge. Nowadays, my reading is only confined to a hour before my sleep and also the times when I am taking a bus or train or travelling to another country. Most of time when I was writing my thesis, I like to sit down at the Borders bookstore and read for half a day. In each summer of the seven years spent in UK, I have found myself immersed in books written by many great thinkers (e.g. Popper, Wittgenstein, Kant, Nozick). Actually, I don't just like reading, I use what I read to debate my fellow college friends (who do their PhDs in other areas). It is usually useful to get them to provide me a better insight and perspective to what I read.

If you want to check out what I have read (and I am still slowly adding my list of read books), here is the URL for you to explore and perhaps, you should use BookJetty too to compile your reading lists.

Acquiring knowledge is good for the mind, but critical analysis of that knowledge is even better.

Comments

[kwokheng]

Thanks for notifying about this, BL!

The lack of a platform like BookJetty.com was why I eventually got to just buying my books!

Here's mine.

ta,
kh

[WANG]

BL
For those interested in SF/Fantasy/Alt History.
WWW.BAEN.COM, They have a free e library so you can sample the authors.

Regards
Wang

[Herry]

Well said Bernard, reading is just one part of it. To be able to discuss it with friends will help to bring out the true value of a book.

Thanks for writeup on BookJetty, btw. :)