The Holiday Kindle Reading List

Ahh the holidays. A time when it's so cold and/or rainy outside that you just want to curl up with some blankets and a good book, or in this case a digital slate packed to the gills with ebooks checked out from various county libraries. I wonder if Los Angeles County ever audits their customer database. I mean, I don't exactly live here, but my relatives do and that's really all that was needed to get an online library card. Each metro area has a slightly different configuration of available ebooks, audiobooks, and magazine subscriptions. I have to use a different app (Flipster) to read magazines that my own county library subscribes to. Multnomah County Library allows you to read magazines in a browser directly from the OverDrive app.

Onward, to the books! Here's what's in the Kindle:

E-Books:

• 6 Disciplines of Agile Marketing by Jim Ewel
• The Influential Product Manager (how to lead and launch) by Ken Sandy
• Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland
• Unvarnished by Eric Alperin and Deborah Stoll

Audiobooks:

• Hacking Marketing (agile practices to make marketing smarter) by Scott Brinker
• A Field Guide to Lies and Statistics by Daniel J. Levitin
• We Fed an Island by Jose Andres

The best part about the Overdrive app for public libraries is that you can download all the chapters of the audiobook to your smartphone or tablet; then listen to them on the airplane.. or wherever.

Library Kindle Reading List

Here's what's currently on the Kindle. Eventually I'll get through most of these and maybe even write a review of it. The current theme revolves around negotiation and its related tools subset: influence, charisma, and competitive intelligence gathering. Marketing is a lot like that. In the product and services content we write, we try to get you (the consumer) to want our products and services. 

• Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
• The Scientist and the Spy by Mara Hvistendahl
• Sizing People Up: A Veteran FBI Agent's User Manual for Behavior Prediction by Dreeke & Stauth
• The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism by Olivia Fox Cabane

It is unlikely that I'll get through all of these in the 21 days the library lets me read these books. But, fortunately, there's the renew button. Unfortunately, there is a long wait list for many of these titles. 

If you're more of an audiophile, you can see Chris Voss' presentations on TED, Talks at Google, or listen to the Armchair Expert podcast.