If you are not interested in the full post, the concept of it is: “What are the 500 books that are worth reading before I die?” What do you recommend? Here’s the full post: I’m a keen reader since I was a child, and I’ve recently become an enthusiastic user of Kindle . Infinite (well, I know they are finite, but allow me this mathematically inconsistent emphasis) opportunities have suddenly become available: I can have thousands of books on my Kindle in seconds. Kindle books cost less their paper version, and often are even free (what’s slightly concerning is how easily you can buy a Kindle book: you just click on a button and your Amazon account is charged automatically - that’s why I set up a password to lock the device). Anyway the point of this post is about decisions: what to read. Let’s start with estimating how much I can read in my life, to give more sense on what follows. I need about one month to read a technical book of 400-500 pages, about two weeks to read an in...