By Jason Snell
September 30, 2018 8:20 PM PT
A Thing We Like: A look at books
I like books a lot. I read a lot of books, mostly novels, but there’s often some nonfiction mixed in as well. And in recent weeks I’ve had a few different books bounce my way, including a couple that I think you might be interested in. (Also, iOS 12 and macOS Mojave both introduced a new version of iBooks called Books, and it’s pretty good! Maybe you could read one of these books in that app. Or not. Use paper if you like. Or a Kindle! Books are available in all sorts of forms these days.)
The first one is, of course, Ken Kocienda’s “Creative Selection”, which I reviewed on Six Colors. It’s not a reported tell-all about Steve Jobs and Jony Ive, but refreshingly, a memoir of Apple at the top of its game from someone who was in the trenches building key software tied to the Mac’s comeback and the birth of the iPhone.…