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Has anyone read the Kindle edition of the 59 Seconds book linked to in the article? Trying to decide if it's worth buying.
by rubergly 15y ago
Has anyone read the Kindle edition of the 59 Seconds book linked to in the article? Trying to decide if it's worth buying.
- gjm11 15y agoI've read the paperback and it's good. I can't see why the Kindle edition would be much different: there's scarcely any fancy formatting or anything. (By "good" I mean: so far as I can tell the science Wiseman reports is correct; the material is interesting; I haven't tried enough of the concrete advice to have strong anecdotal opinions about how well it works[1]; the quality of the writing is perfectly decent. If you are in the market for either reasonably-scholarly popular psychology or self-help, you should probably get it.) [1] We see here a concrete example of one reason why self-help books generally don't work.
- Wilfred 15y agoI've read the paperback version and came away slightly disappointed. The book is essentially a distillation of papers the author found interesting and applicable. The separate chapters felt completely disconnected from each other. There were a number of interesting points, but no cohesion. As for Kindle, the book design was sufficiently plain that I would have no concerns.
- vijayr 15y agoI am not sure if it is only for this book or it is common - Looks like the entire book is there on amazon, for free, if you click on "look inside". Is it a bug, or is it common?