"The 30 Most Important Tips, Hacks, and Tricks."

This ebook caught my attention for no apparent reason when I was on amazon earlier today.

I think, though I'm not certain, it was one of those suggestions amazon throws up there every time I buy something (on average, once a day) in the hope that maybe something will stick, in a manner of speaking.

This title did, enough so that I dropped $1.99 to have the PDF file downloaded to my computer.

Then I printed it out, and voila, my book.

The whole concept of the book as a PDF file is what interested me more than anything else.

I like the fact that this eliminates the middleman - or, at least, substitutes only one - amazon - for the publisher, distributor, and the book dealer.

It would seem that the author, Tod Sacerdoti, would get more money per book this way than the old-fashioned way.

I learned some useful stuff re: Google which, as I've pointed out here many times, is essential for bookofjoe to exist.

No Google, no search, no bookofjoe. Easy as 1,2,3. But I digress.

Some things I learned from this book:

1) Keyword searches are not case specific: New York is the same as new york

2) Keyword order does matter [this shocked me: I'd thought it was irrelevant]: searching for san francisco giants will produce more results than giants san francisco

3) The keyword(s) up top, if you click on them, take you automatically to their definitions on dictionary.com

4) Using Google as a spellchecker is more powerful than any word processing spellchecker because it can correct proper nouns, places, and other words not found in the dicitionary

5) Google can search for information within an individual website. Simply type the keyword site followed by the web address.

Well worth the $1.99.