The Learn2 Guide: Burp a Baby, Carve a Turkey, and 108 Other Things You Should Know How to Do

by Jason Roberts

Based on Learn2.com, the wildly popular website, The Learn2 Guide is the essential guide to everyday life.

"Learn2.com gives step-by-step instructions on all of the life skills your parents forgot to teach you . . . the answers standing between you and lifestyle nirvana."
        --Newsweek

"This site is fascinating . . . devoted to things you might be too chicken to ask about."
        --The Wall Street Journal

The Learn2 Guide is the ultimate how-to book, with instructions and techniques anyone can use for daily living. Packed with over one hundred of the hot website's enormously popular "2torials," complete with illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions, The Learn2 Guide is perfect for anyone who has ever wondered how

¸  Make paper airplanes   ¸   Eat sushi   ¸   Clean a computer   ¸   Carve a turkey  
¸   Iron a shirt   ¸   Burp a baby   ¸   Build a fire   ¸   Calculate tips   ¸   Cure hiccups  
¸   Juggle (three balls)   ¸   Make a kite

"Learn2 has but one purpose, and that is to teach everyone everything . . . a site that exists exclusively to provide the dazzled and bemused user with skills for living a better, easier, cheaper, and more masterly life."         --Yahoo! Internet Life

Genres: Reference

340 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Jason Roberts is a writer of nonfiction and fiction. His most recent book is Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life. His previous book, A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History’s Greatest Traveler, was a national bestseller and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A contributor to McSweeney’s, The Believer, and other publications, he lives in Northern California.

Reviews

[Ian Cunningham]

How does one rate and/or grade a reference book? This has useful articles and has saved my bachelor butt more than once, but if I give this 4 stars, does it mean I enjoyed reading it as much as, say, Tad Williams' Tailchaser's Song?

[Tammy]

I learned how to juggle using this book!