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Kitt Bo's avatar

"The Big Book of Secret Hiding Places" is available free via the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/JackLugerTheBigBookOfSecretHidingPlaces

Thanks for the rec!

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Tapan Desai's avatar

Thank you for the literature map!

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Better Allies®'s avatar

Wow … thanks so much for recommending my newsletter, Claudia 🙏🙏

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Kent Keller-Barnes's avatar

The Big Book of Secret Hiding Places provided link lists the Big Book in paperback on Amazon at $302.98? At that cost I will need to hide it somewhere as it would be the most valuable book I own.

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Ashlee Vance's avatar

Well that was very kind of you. Thx, man

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Matt Stillerman's avatar

The Literature Map is less interesting than it might at first seem. The relation being portrayed is symmetric: Authors A and B have readers in common. The order of A and B does not matter. Now try this: Click on author B that is near the central one, author A. The new map is centered on B, but A is typically far away. Even worse: The map centered on A shows a cluster of authors, B, C, and D. Click on any of them, and you will find the others far away, or even off the screen. A map has some interesting geometric properties, but this isn't it!

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