Just put up some finishing touches to the official web site of the new Lifehacker book, Upgrade Your Life. Head on over to browse the book’s complete table of contents, read the introduction, and download a sample chapter.
For the next week and a half, readers are submitting their best life hack for a chance to win an autographed copy of our new book, Upgrade Your Life. Reader Beth writes in with her favourite trick for keeping track of info on the road and at the gym—using the previously mentioned PocketMod print-yourself notebook. Beth says:
I’m sitting here next to a stack of the new Lifehacker book, Upgrade Your Life, and it’s time to start clearing out this joint, signing these puppies and giving them away! Send us your best life hack—organisational strategy, computer tip, DIY project—and earn a chance to have one of these books signed and shipped to your door. Email us your submission to bookcontest at lifehacker.com and over the next couple of weeks, we’ll feature the best hacks here on the site, and give the winners an autographed copy of the book. Get more details after the jump.
The second edition of the Lifehacker book, Upgrade Your Life, is a compilation of the best 116 hacks and downloads from Lifehacker’s archives. This dead tree version of the web site transforms dozens of blog posts into comprehensive, edited tutorials, which will be familiar to longtime readers. While an official electronic version of Upgrade Your Life isn’t available, today I’ve pulled together links to all the past posts that informed each book chapter to give you a one-stop preview of what’s inside that cover. Consider this post the unedited web version of the book. After the jump, get a ginormous roundup of all the posts that created Upgrade Your Life by chapter. And shhhh, don’t tell my book publisher I’m giving this all away.
The second edition of the Lifehacker book, Upgrade Your Life, is finally available for purchase, but if you want a free taste before you hand over your hard-earned cash, my book publisher is offering three excerpts for download as PDFs. Check out a sample chapter, the table of contents, and the book index to see what you’re getting yourself into at my publisher’s web site, or pick from the list below.Read Excerpt: Chapter 1, Control Your Email (PDF) Read Excerpt: Table of Contents (PDF) Read Excerpt: Index (PDF)
Enjoy! Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better, 2nd Edition [Wiley]
The second edition of the Lifehacker book, Upgrade Your Life, is now shipping from Amazon! For those of you who have already checked out the first edition, Upgrade Your Life‘s got 50 new and revised hacks for your computing pleasure: over 30 brand new hacks, and over 20 updated hacks, as well as a whole new chapter. Upgrade Your Life will set you back just under 20 bucks on Amazon, and while an electronic version isn’t yet available, my publisher tells me the book will be available for Kindle users in a few weeks. Yeehaw! Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better [Amazon]
My book publisher tells me that the second edition of the Lifehacker book, Upgrade Your Life, is hot off the press, and several copies are boxed and loaded onto trucks headed towards Amazon’s warehouses as I type. If you’re planning on buying the book, pre-order from Amazon now before it starts shipping to take advantage of Amazon’s 5% discount on all book pre-orders (which puts the price well below 20 bucks.) Upgrade Your Life is meatier, better-looking, and more up-to-date than the first edition, and good karma will come to anyone who gives it a read. I promise. Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better [Amazon]
The second edition of the Lifehacker book is now up on Amazon.com and available for pre-order! That’s right: the cover design has been finalised, over 50 new and revised hacks have been locked down, and this little paperback baby weighs in at just around 480 pages. Pre-order your copy of Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better now for just under 20 bucks so I can earn out my advance and prove to the print world that there’s something to this whole blog thing. The book should be in stores everywhere by mid-March. Thanks in advance for your support on this project. Huzzah!! Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better [Amazon]
