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mburnamfink's review
4.0
Four Favorite Tools is a dead tree (well, dead pixel) version of the Cool Tools podcast, where Claudia Dawson, Mark Frauenfelder, and Kevin Kelly ask people adjacent to the Maker movement about tools they like. This version has about 150 people talking about the things they love in two pages apiece, with nice color photos. There's everything from the Standard Peavey (an iron spike for moving logs) on the simple end, to an Amray 1830 Scanning Electron Microscope on the high end, with everything from integrated development environments to kitchen tools in between. It's interesting to see specific products many people love, like Scrivener or little mesh bags, and where diversity shines. Lots of people love cameras, cargo bikes, and transcription apps, but everyone has their favorite. For $2, if you're looking for gift ideas, you could do a lot worse.
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