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Year 2013

My central mission for this year is to distill the best of my Cool Tools blog into a huge paper book. The 1,500 best tool reviews garnered from the past 10 years of daily reviews will be curated into a massive 450-page, oversized, all-color catalog of possibilities. The final book will look very much like a color version of the Whole Earth Catalog, which it is descended from. This is a gigantic undertaking. I hope it will be complete in time to be available in stores by the fall. If you have a favorite tool you want me to include, email your rave about it.

Our successfully funded second book of the Silver Cord series is now underway. ...

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