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Gutentag !!!

Well that's Good Morning translated to in German :) But this post is titled as :
Guten'tag' = Gutenberg + Tag

MaDaN a fellow student of NITIE, tagged my blog with the Book Tag-MEME. The chain came thus (I tired to trackback it)
Thomas Luongo -> Knappster -> Ken -> Kevin Carson -> BradSpangler -> Yazad -> Nanopolitan -> SilentEloquence -> Pramod -> Madan -> Me!!!

Guess the significance of 'tag' is clear - but what about Gutenberg?? Well this Tag is about Books - a concept that could never have become a mass audience subject but for printing technology. Gutenberg was the inventor of the printing press and hence the father of knowledge management - the Gutenberg Press and Gutenberg Bible are the most celebrated terms in history of Books. A perfect obituary to Gutenberg is the Project Gutenberg which aims to digitize, archive, and distribute cultural literature works.

Enough about the title - lets get on with the post!!.

Total Number of Books I Own:
In Print its a meager 27 - but I am avid online reader; have a collection of more than 150 eBooks. Further I am in a habit of borrowing books from friends, library etc - most books I purchase in print are those which I have already read and found worth archiving.

Last Book I Bought:
Deception Point and Digital Fortress by Dan Brown - purchased on recommendation of a friend - haven't found time to open any one of them yet. Also purchased Jefferey Archer's 'As the Crow Flies' on the same day. This is my favourite fiction and the first novel I had read.

Last Book I Read:
'Not a Penny less, Not a penny More' - by Jefferey Archer (Soft copy)
'Wings Of Fire' - by APJ Abdul Kalam (In print)

Five Books That Mean a Lot to Me:
1. The Third Wave - by Alvin Toffler
2. The Goal - by Eliyahu M Goldratt
3. Wings of Fire - by APJ Abdul Kalam
4. The Foutainhead - by Ayn Rand
5. As the Crow Flies - by Jefferey Archer

There are other books I like -
'Who says Elephants can't Dance' (Lou Gerstner)
'Only The Paranoids Survive' (Andy Grove)
'Future Shock', 'Powershift' (from the same trilogy as Third Wave)
'Bharatiya Itihasaat Saat Swarnim Paane': a rare historical review written by Veer Savarkar in Marathi. This book is a bit fundamentalist in its approach yet it is probably the most fair and impartial review I have read about Indian history. It covers India's journey from the times of Chanakya to 1857 freedom struggle.

My unfinished book:
'My Experiments with Truth' by Mahatma Gandhi

Tag five people and have them do this on their blogs:
hmmm... tuf job .. 'coz it has to be people who read a lot ... and do public blogging
1. Shubham is an obvious choice
2. Next is gonna be Manish Chauhan ....
?. Then . . . oh no! Madan has already tagged GWBE :(
3. Oh yea .. Ganesh goes in next . . .
4. Abhishek Khetan - not an avid blogger but a voracious reader for sure
5. Arul Prakash - a new fangled blogger :)))

PS: And anyone in the above tagged don't wanna be tagged - mail back
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  1. Unknown10:29 AM

    Nevermind Nikhil. I will go ahead with the book tag. You have read a lot of stuff. And we some common interest as well :-)

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  2. Unknown10:41 AM

    Please don't read Digital Fortress. It's a bad attempt for pace.

    And at one point, you have by mistake written "John Grisham's 'As the Crow Flies' " :-)

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  3. chaos2:39 PM

    voracious reader and me!!!
    :D (i don't really agree with you)!

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  4. Accenture7:51 PM

    could not understand this concept of TAGs at all... explain in normal english please....

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