The Internet Now in Handy Book Form!

by David McCandless

Using the very latest in Pageturn technology, this full-color spoof of everyone’s favorite information-superhighway-thingie redraws the world wide web via the most cutting edge of gadgets—a book. All 144 pages are stuffed with narcissistic bloggers, ultra-geeks, and desperate online daters. The result is funny and scary, clever and crude, dark and absurd. Recommended "sites" to visit include Notbitch—the world's nicest gossip site, Bullies Reunited—relive your teenage days of beating people up for money, Poormatch.com—the world's worst dating site, and Porn for girls by girls—hardcore social lunch with the parents, and roughly taken on a romantic weekend! So dump that PDA, grandpa, drown your mouse, and dropkick your iPhone into a nearby pond. Portable and wireless, with no battery required and 95% virus free, the internet in a book provides the traditional internet pleasures of surfing, stalking, and having your credit card details stolen, all at the turn of a page!

144 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2007

About the author

McCandless is the founder of the visual blog Information Is Beautiful. Early explorations into the synergy between data visualisation and his work as a journalist led to the development of Information Is Beautiful and the subsequent publication of his book of the same name (titled A Visual Miscellaneum in the United States).

McCandless began his career writing for cult video game magazines such as Your Sinclair and PC Zone in the late 1980s and 1990s before moving on to work for The Guardian and Wired magazine. Since the publication of Information Is Beautiful in 2009, his information design work has appeared in numerous publications, including The Guardian, Wired, and Die Zeit, and has also been showcased at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Wellcome Trust gallery in London, and at the Tate Britain. His second book, Knowledge Is Beautiful, was published in 2014.

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