Simon Whatley has posted a list of UX books that are free to read online. It’s a list of 9 books, and they all look to be useful reads. (Found via InfoDesign)

In addition, Mark McGuinness has made his book Time Management for Creative People available for free also. (Found via LibrarianinBlack)

Will Evans of Semantic Foundry recently posted this excellent list of UX Books called The UX Canon: Essential reading for the User Experience Designer.

It’s a thorough list, and I was pleased to see that I’ve read or own a number of the books, and now I have quite a few more to add to my Amazon list!

Not that we really post enough anyway, but I’m currently visiting over at Information Overlord, helping read through the Booker Prize nominees and waffling at length about books and themes and stuff. My first post is up now, discussing the lovely Secret Scripture.

I’ve finally gotten around to watching a video that I’ve had saved in my google reader for weeks – We Think.  (Found via Web 2.0 (Video/Powerpoint))

It’s an animation that accompanies a book that was published in the UK recently, also titled We Think. It’s about the web and creativity and sharing and where that will take us. Whilst not directly on Web 2.0 it is about the concepts and technologies behind it, and is about the direction that the web is heading.

The first three chapters of the book are available online here.  Go, read.  I know I will be.

I’ve finally gotten hold of a copy of Everything is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger courtesy of MPOW. I’ve just sat down to read it, and I can tell this is going to be a book where I’m constantly getting up to note down an interesting quote. I can also tell that it’s going to be hard to put down – I may have to put the novel I’m currently reading aside until it’s done!

My favourite so far? The solution to the overabundance of information is more information (p13). How very true!

However, I’ve also got a small nitpick. There’s been a couple of cultural references so far that I’ve not gotten (The Odd Couple/Oscar Madison), though I’m not sure if that’s down to my age, or an American focus. Still, not too much of a nitpick, and things like that I can easily google.

And even though I’ve only just started this book, I’m already on the lookout for others to get for MPOW. I’ve been coveting a number of books myself (These two specifically come to mind immediately) but working as I do in the legal sector, I worry that they wouldn’t have much applicability to our environment, and I don’t want to spend our book budget on irrelevant books. So, does anyone have any recommendations for web 2.0/library 2.0 books that would have some relevance to the legal library?