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How to Be a Geek Goddess: Practical Advice for Using Computers with Smarts and Style

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This is a great book! It DOES tell you everything you need to know before purchasing techy stuff. I love the format, the "Dear Geek Goddess" letters make it a really entertaining read. Also, the chapters on protecting your kids when they are online are just priceless. Every mom should read that part! I would highly recommend this book!

....to appreciate this book. you don't even have to be a woman. though it's aimed specifically at women of a certain age, HTBAGG offers tons of info even blustery pompous men could use -- like how and where to set up a home computer, ways to save money shopping online, and the like. all written in a breezy informative style that lets you dip in at any point and pull out helpful stuff. (and yes, I do happen the know the author personally -- but it's still a fine book.)

You don't have to sacrifice femininity for efficiency. "How to be a Geek Goddess: Practical Advice for Using Computers with Smarts and Style" is a woman's guide to the world of all things computer. Ranging from everything involving from purchasing a computer, staying safe from viruses and malware, using the internet to its fullest extent, and avoiding being that one aunt or mother who wouldn't know a computer from a shovel, "How to be a Geek Goddess" is an ideal acquisition to those who want to avoid ignorance in the necessary modern art of computer use.

The book is upbeat, but it misses what I thought was the target audience: young women whose parents want to keep them from becoming or remaining technologically adverse. The text needs a rigorous editing and a format that delivers with end-of-chapter takeaways, more graphics, and less droning text. Neither my daughter nor my wife were interested enough to do more than smile at the title that doesn't deliver. Revamp it, cut it, gussy it up, and the author and publishing company might have something.

This is a howto for high-tech barbies how to appear sexy - it has nothing to do WHATSOEVER with profound technical information as the "geek" in the title might suggest. If buying or acquiring software is comparable to buying a pair of high heels for you this is surely the right thing for you!

Wouldn't buy based on the synopsis alone -- To suggest that a woman who doesn't read this might have to "ask a man" for computer help is one of the most sexist phrases I have encountered lately. What an insult for woman who really would prefer to be known as a "real geek" rather than a one who merely wants to learn new ways of finding the best bargain on shoes!