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With the rolling in of the new year came the rolling out of the old. At work we’ve been doing a lot of archiving, and so I was inspired to freshen and clean up my own site. Please ignore the mess for a few days, I know there are a few things out of wack.

Last year I participated (or tried to) in a 50/50 book challenge which basically tries to get people to read. To meet the challenge, you are to read 50 new books and 50 old books in one year. I altered the challenge to read 50 books in one year, however since I spent a lot of my time reading research papers, I only read 25 for 2005.

Not really bad, but not as good as I was hoping. The Metro is a great place to read, if I stopped riding I’m not sure where I would get the time to read (maybe car rides to Pittsburgh). This year I will try to do better.

I’ve set up some rules too. Only prose books will be included in this list. Poetry, textbooks (unless they’re written in prose format such as last year’s Interaction Design), technical manuals (unless they’re written in prose format such as Information Archictecture for the WWW), and other books which require more scanning and looking than reading do not count.

I had a few books leftover from last year I barely started (they were gifts at Christmas), so I rolled them over to this year’s challenge. They include Digital Ground by Malcolm McCullough, and Information Architecture for the WWW by Louis Rosenfeld.

If you are participating in this challenge or something similar.. Good Luck!