Books

Karen Blakeman on July 20th, 2011

I first reviewed Company Check (http://www.companycheck.co.uk/) earlier this year (Free UK company information http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/2011/01/10/free-uk-company-information/). Since then they have made more UK company information available free of charge. As well as Cash at Bank the service also shows 6 years of figures and graphs for Net Worth, Total Liabilities and Total Current Liabilities. Data is taken from [...]

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Karen Blakeman on July 17th, 2010

Sorry?  David Foster Wallace – who he? Exactly. Not well known in the literary circles we move in. But let’s go back to the beginning… This all started with numerous tweets about “I write like” (http://iwl.me/). Just paste in some text from a blog posting, article or essay that you have written and it tells [...]

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Karen Blakeman on January 29th, 2009

Now in its 3rd edition this guide from CTEC Publishing LLC  is a comprehensive compilation of data for all 83 regions of Russia. The guide includes: An introduction by the head of each regional administration Economic maps of the regions, brief general information, full contact details for each regional administration including the names and telephone [...]

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Karen Blakeman on December 29th, 2008

viaLibri searches for old and rare books on eighteen different web sites that aggregate the inventory of hundreds of antiquarian booksellers world-wide. You can search by a number of criteria including author, title, imprint, publication years (before/after), price, first edition and keyword. As the interfaces and search options of the individual sites are different you [...]

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Karen Blakeman on July 8th, 2008

BookMooch lets you give away books you no longer need in exchange for books you really want. Every time you give someone a book, you earn a point and can get any book you want from anyone else at BookMooch. You receive a tenth of a point for every book you make available on BookMooch, [...]

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Karen Blakeman on July 13th, 2007

It’s Friday, so this is a bit of light relief. I picked this one up on Google Blogoscoped. I am not going to tell you what they are – you really need to go to the original posting to fully appreciate them. Personally, I would buy “Stuff the CIA doesn’t want you to know” subtitled [...]

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Karen Blakeman on November 20th, 2006

Fed up with reading the same type of book or want to try a completely different genre? Then head straight for LibraryThing Unsuggester I came across this in Tom Roper’s Blog. According to LibraryThing Unsuggester it “takes ‘people who like this also like that’ and turns it on its head. It analyzes the seven million [...]

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