I will start working on a Patzer Review of "Sharpen Your Chess Tactics in 7 Days" anytime soon. I expect stellar improvement of my tactics and a fine review in 7+1 days

As long as you will have fun doing your work, we should have fun reading about it. :) All the best!

I am eagerly waiting for that catalog!

 

thanks for the Update

As I have edited over 100 chess books from Thinkers' Press + magazines on chess and magic over the past 25 years I can appreciate ONE thing for sure which I did during that time I was purchasing chess books: when I needed the book for some business or personal use, it was there. I didn't have to go to the library, call up a friend, run to a store, or scratch my head trying to recall something. I am more careful now, but it was of major help (keeping them organized is a completely different issue).

I've had chess "dudes" come to me and remark on the huge size of their libraries (15 books and up) and you know that they have no idea of research, study, completeness, obsession and so on.

I started anew about 3-4 years ago and my perspective has shifted. I try only to get books which will be beneficial for me. In that vein, on Feb. 1, 2009, I will be releasing a catalog (this time for chess books only) of about 100 titles: illustrated, briefly described and available for FREE for just your name and an email address. I expect to add less than 100 more titles to this catalog in the next several years. But out of the 2,000 or so chess books still in print, that is quite a reduction.

Perhaps even two in a near future??

This is definitely a good idea...I have an idea for a book you should definitely review!! ;)

I would definitely be interested in your book reviews. Although, I will have to be careful not to go out and buy them after reading about them.

Sounds perfect for me.  I'll add you to my "follow" list. 

Somebody once called me a hemipatzer but I've never been able to work out if that meant I was half way between being a player and a patzer, or if I still had half the journey ahead of me before qualifying to be a patzer...

I think it should interest quite some players. Most reviews go into details about variations and assessments of positions. Of course that's very important too, but it's also important to discuss the impression a book makes. How good is the writing style? Easy to follow? Enough diagrams? Is it easy to read through? And is there enough supporting text with the variations and the games? etc.

I will also use other reviews ("the technical side") for choosing which books to buy, but if you could answer such questions, I'll read your reviews too :)

Sounds good.

stwils