I Wanna Take A Ride On Your Media Stick! [more inside]
posted by Lipstick Thespian on Dec 9, 2009 - 2 comments

What about a Metafilter Book Club? [more inside]
posted by granted on Oct 14, 2009 - 88 comments

Cloud Atlas: most recommended book on Metafilter? [more inside]
posted by Mrs. Buck Turgidson on Aug 15, 2009 - 73 comments

Here is a books-only list, broken up by subject, of the What single book is the best introduction to your field (or specialization within your field) for laypeople? thread. (via)
posted by nitsuj on May 12, 2009 - 17 comments

My AskMe from this morning was answered beautifully, with depth and consideration. As it is right now, at 20:07 EST, it is a beautiful little anthology on How to Read. I would shamelessly nominate it for the sidebar.
posted by Tufa on Jan 29, 2009 - 62 comments

I seem to remember that in the wake of this question someone mentioned (on MeTa, I think) putting all the books that appealed to them into an Amazon wishlist. They were then able to use some sort of tool that exported it into a format useful for taking it to their public library. Does anyone remember this posting? I tried to search for it but my googleFu blah blah blah...
posted by Deathalicious on Dec 20, 2007 - 14 comments

I collected book related askMes on the wiki into readMe. [more inside]
posted by shothotbot on Dec 8, 2007 - 77 comments

I was kind of peeved when Technorati dropped the book category from their popular page and list. I've also noticed a lot of requests for book recommendations on AskMiFi. Bunches of book or bookish tags. Mefites seem a bookish crowd. A fascinating Librarything group. Might it be worth considering expanding the book conversation specifically? We have a Music page. Why not a Books page? Rather than posting music files or lists, we could link to Amazon or Powells or Libraything or Google Book Search or WorldCat or blogs or reviews. There's a movement to react to the old media's abandonment of book coverage by encouraging more online coverage. Is this worth investigating for Metafilter?
posted by Toekneesan on Jul 11, 2007 - 31 comments

Sidebar nomination: 12-year-old girl changed-your-life books
posted by k8t on Jun 20, 2007 - 41 comments

I've got a feature that I'd LOVE to see added, largely driven by the number of "I just finished reading this, what should I read next posts" ... a set of fields on our profile pages where we can add a book that we've recently read/enjoyed (perhaps by ISBN?), followed by a comments box. That way, members could build their "reading histories" over time, and they'd be available to the rest of the community. I realize there are plenty of stand-alone sites that do just this, but I'd love to see it integrated into MeFi, simply because I'd be very interested in checking in from time to time to see what certain posters are reading these days. We all kinda get to know each other over time, and there's an unusually high percentage of very literate people on this site. (Forgive, please, if this has been requested before.)
posted by jbickers on Apr 28, 2007 - 38 comments

Metafilter is mentioned in a book...The second page of Citizen Marketers includes a mention of a Mefi post about George Masters' Tiny Machines apple video
posted by drezdn on Mar 22, 2007 - 41 comments

Miguel Cardoso section in a Portugese bookstore
posted by mathowie on Jun 24, 2006 - 49 comments

Usability: The Site Speaks For Itself has an interesting chapter by Matthew Haughey on the development of Metafilter.
posted by booksprite on May 20, 2006 - 13 comments

jonmc has inspired me. in thread a while back, he recommended i read a book as a sort of "this is what i think about what we disagree about" retort. i have been thinking about it, and i do intend to get the book (from the library), but only on the condition that he do likewise for me. and then i thought, maybe i could invite some of our more famous meta-adversaries to participate in something like... a sort of tit-for-tat book exchange in the spirit of understanding each others' points of view.
posted by RedEmma on Nov 6, 2005 - 49 comments

Whoa! I dropped "metafilter.com" into amazon to try and find that alexa site ranking thing, and found out the site appears in 14 books.
posted by mathowie on Sep 14, 2004 - 27 comments

metafilter gets a big shout out in the author's acknowledgements! - i was going to save this for sept 1, when dong's book will be officially released, but in light of wendell's missing tink post i figure now is as good a time as any.
posted by t r a c y on Aug 19, 2004 - 25 comments