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Yes, I still buy books on paper. Where else can you find Chinese authors in translation in print these days?

Rich Tennant, the Dummies cartoonist, moves on

I just got word that Rich Tennant, who draws all the cartoons in the Dummies books, is leaving, and new Dummies books will no longer have his cartoons. Well, I’m sad, because I liked what he did in mine. If you like his stuff, too, you can go to his website to license them or… [Read More]

Thoughts on The Tightwad Gazette, all these years later

I’ve been re-reading The Complete Tightwad Gazette, looking for inspiration for Chicago on the Cheap. It’s a compilation of newsletters on thrifty living that Amy Dacyczyn started in 1990. She and her husband wanted to raise a large family (six children) on a small farm in Maine, without sending the kids to day care. They… [Read More]

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