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I'm very pleased with the critical response! This book would make an excellent gift, and it was supposed to come out nearer to the holiday season for that reason... but then all these nice reviews appeared! So it was rushed to bookstores and Amazon....
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I'm very pleased with the critical response! This book would make an excellent gift, and it was supposed to come out nearer to the holiday season for that reason... but then all these nice reviews appeared! So it was rushed to bookstores and Amazon. Official pub. date: Sept. 5, 2007. On July 6, 2007, Mark Frauenfelder, author of Rule the Web: How to Do Anything and Everything on the Internet---Better, Faster, Easier (and editor of Boing Boing and MAKE: Technology on Your Time) posted a sneak preview of the book to Boing Boing. Excerpt: "My friend Joshua Glenn was the founder of one of my favorite zines, Hermenaut. He edited a new book called Taking Things Seriously: 75 Objects with Unexpected Significance... I've read some samples from the book and they're wonderful." On August 5, the New York Times Book Review and LA Times Book Review both praised Taking Things Seriously. Here's an excerpt from the LA Times review: "Why do certain things charm us so? In their new book, Taking Things... See less 
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