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A random assortment of free books:

Douglas C. Engelbart, Boosting Our Collective IQ. Short collection of readings from hypertext pioneer. Two copies.
Paul N. Edwards, The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America. I remember really liking the half of it that I read.
Michael Sorkin (ed.), Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space. Shopping malls are bad!
Joel Garreau, Edge City: Life on the New Frontier. No, they're good!
Thomas Frank and Matt Weiland, Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from the Baffler. "A satirical and savage indictment of '90s consumerist culture," for what that's worth.
Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements. Sort of objectivistish.
Harold Bloom, The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation. Literary scholar examines Mormons, Christian Scientists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and other religions founded in America.
Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, The Medium is the Massage. A multimedia presentation.
Stewart Brand, How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built. Lamarckian architecture.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland. Feminist utopian novel from 1915.
Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones. One copy each in Spanish and English.
Dionys Burger, Sphereland. An enjoyable quasi-sequel to Flatland, circa 1960.

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I'd like The american Religion, Sphereland, and the Massage book.

I think I have Ficciones, otherwise I'd want that. (Hopefully I want the book I have.)

Could I get Ficciones? Englishish.

The Medium is the Massage?

http://www.gingkopress.com/_cata/_mclu/medimas1.htm

Huh. I really thought it was a typo, myself.

Me, I thought it was page after page of hilarious misprint. But no, it's legit.

Sure thing. Mail me (mailto:eostrom@drowning.org) your address.

Cool, I was hoping someone would take the Bloom book.

Hm, I wonder what happened to the other American religion books.

Unless I'm misremembering (which happens these days), it was referenced repeatedly in Under The Banner Of Heaven, which piqued my interest.

I think I would like to flip through the Baffler collection and the Stewart Brand book, but probably not enough to make you ship them.

one of the Engelbarts, please!

Sent.

You're way too efficient. I am shamed. Fortunately, soon I'll have more stuff to make me feel better. Thanks.

You are a gentleman and a scholar.

The other one, please.
And How Building Learn.

I really like Edge Cities, particularly the golossary, and particularly the entry for "learning experience." There are people I know with whom we share that as a personal joke.

Hey, is Julian sick? I'm worried for him. He hasn't taken dibs on anything yet ..

It's mostly that I missed the ones I particularly wanted, and I figured I'd give it a rest this time.

(Also, I'm a she.)