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title: "Pogue's Basics: Life: Essential Tips and Shortcuts (That No One Bothers to Tell You) for Simplifying Your Day"
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# Pogue's Basics: Life: Essential Tips and Shortcuts (That No One Bothers to Tell You) for Simplifying Your Day

**Brand:** david pogue
**Price:** € 30.78
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- **What is this?** Pogue's Basics: Life: Essential Tips and Shortcuts (That No One Bothers to Tell You) for Simplifying Your Day by david pogue
- **How much does it cost?** € 30.78 with free shipping
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Pogue's Basics: Life: Essential Tips and Shortcuts (That No One Bothers to Tell You) for Simplifying Your Day

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## Customer Reviews

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    Fortunately, Pogue's dry humor can liven up the driest ...
  

*by A***E on Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2016*

As with any book of tips, David Pogue has something for everyone, but not everything for anyone. Fortunately, Pogue's dry humor can liven up the driest parts.  The book is divided into the important parts of life: The Car, Travel, Food, Clothes, Out and About, House and Home, Animals, How to Clean Everything, Electronics, Your Body, Social Hacks, and Life Hack Lies. The last a myth bustingly entertaining chapter, shattering such illusions as bouncing batteries does not predict their charge and freezing candles does not extend their burn time.Pogue covers a wide range of topics from the pedestrian to the clever, but he is never pedantic. We learn that there is a better way to tie our shoes. Some of this secret knowledge is for young graduates others useful to the world weary of us.He says that book will contain "Common knowledge that is not as common as you think. "Alas, some tips are blindingly common. like: wash white and light colored clothes separately from dark. Fortunately, these are in the minority. Most tips are tremendously clever. For example, stretching cloth or mesh across a vacuum to find contact lens, jewelry or other small lost object. Or the secret indicator in a car's dash which shows which side the gas tank is on.Pogue's tips will help make life a little easier.

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    Fun tips
  

*by J***H on Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2018*

This compilations of tips is organized into chapters.  They are 1. The car, 2.  Travel (mostly tips for flying), 3. Food, 4. Clothes, 5. Out and About, 6. House and Home, 7. Animals, 8. How to Clean Everything, 9. Electronics, 10. Your body, 11. Social, and 12. Life Hack Lies.  That last one is fun; it's tips that are passed around that don't work.  For instance, tapping on a soda can before you open it does not keep it from spraying all over you.  My favorite hacks were using a wooden spoon across the top of a pot to keep it from boiling over, and turning your iPad sideways if your polarized sunglasses are blocking you from viewing the contents of the screen.  This book did not have as many tips that were useful to me as his other books of hacks, but it was fun to read--even the chapters that didn't apply to me, like the chapters on pets and air travel.  I will definitely buy any future hack books he adds to this series.

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    Tips and Tricks You Wish You Knew When You Were Younger
  

*by S***L on Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2016*

David Pogue has the best reference books. I know, who reads or owns books any more but his books are keepers. They are rich with information about everyday things we miss. It's a tips and tricks book that I wish I had when I was younger. This edition has different tidbits that halfway through the book, you think someone missed telling you.My favorite is the gas gauge arrow indicating which side the gas cap is on. It has helped when I've had a rental and didn't know which side and when I got a new car.There are many tips and tricks that you'll use everyday. It's the missing manual for life essentials. It's one of my favorite books and one that I remember what's in it.

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