The Internet Con

The Internet Con

By
Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow
2023 • 235 pages

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150 books

2023 Year in Books

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Hardcover
Fourth Wing
Tress of the Emerald Sea
Yellowface
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
Happy Place
Spare
Hell Bent

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8 books

History of the Internet

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AdamSupporter
The Players Ball: A Genius, a Con Man, and the Secret History of the Internet's Rise
Extremely Online
Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
The History of the Future
The Internet Con

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11 books

300

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Elizabeth
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
The Study Skills Handbook

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53 books

Reference

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Tshania Sedai
The World Of Robert Jordan's The Wheel Of Time
Tim Gunn's fashion bible
Successful Serging: From Setup to Simple and Specialty Stitches
Serger Secrets: High-Fashion Techniques for Creating Great-Looking Clothes
The Sewing Bible: A Modern Manual of Practical and Decorative Sewing Techniques
Sewing for Plus Sizes: Creating Clothes that Fit and Flatter

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33 books

Non Fiction

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Karen
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
I'm Glad My Mom Died
The Book of Eels
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
All the Living and the Dead: From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life's Work
Flotsametrics and the floating world

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17 books

Books Boyfriend Reads

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Hana Gabrielle Bidon
Animal Farm
1984
Klan-destine Relationships: A Black Man's Odyssey in the Ku Klux Klan
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Standardized Minds: The High Price Of America's Testing Culture And What We Can Do To Change It
The Chaos Machine
Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story

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52 books

Tech Ethics

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Hana Gabrielle Bidon
The Ethical Algorithm
The Age of AI and Our Human Future
Standardized Minds: The High Price Of America's Testing Culture And What We Can Do To Change It
Digital Literacy and Digital Inclusion: Information Policy and the Public Library
Technology, Activism, and Social Justice in a Digital Age
Behind Their Screens: What Teens Are Facing
The Loop

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17,841 books

My Library

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Nitin Rughoonauth
Fermi Remembered
Goedel's Way: Exploits into an undecidable world
Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize
Debate en torno a la etica del discurso de Apel: Diálogo filosófico Norte-Sur desde América Latina
Love and math : the heart of hidden reality
The Road to Reality
The Large, the Small and the Human Mind

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326 books

Nonfiction

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Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
No god but God
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Blunders: A Complete Guide to the Worst Decisions and Stupidest Moments in Baseball History
Crossworld

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28 books

Technology

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Adam
The United States of Anonymous: How the First Amendment Shaped Online Speech
Ghost Work
Calling Bullshit : The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
The Internet Is Not the Anwer
Silicon Values
Behind the Screen
Hard Drive

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12 books

Policy

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Adam
Speaking Truth to Power: Art and Craft of Policy Analysis
Thinking Like an Economist
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
The Color of Law
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
The Internet Con
Why Flying Is Miserable: And How to Fix It

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241 books

Owned

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Nithou
Emergency Skin
What Kind of Mother
Century Rain
Ex-Wife
The Last Astronaut
Children of Time
The Half Life of Valery K

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70 books

Interested

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Zee (he/they)
Maid for It
The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts
Night Owls
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
No One Is Talking About This
Sisters of the Lost Nation
Goliath

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626 books

Owned

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Elizabeth
The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England
Lord of Emperors
A Curse of Ash and Embers
Abaddon's Gate
A Clash of Kings
All Systems Red
A Master of Djinn