I’ve been creating a library for the past three years. I’m obsessed with building a sprawling selection of quality books, but I rarely pay cover price. I’d never be able to afford it. The Lakeland Library Cooperative in Michigan says the average cost of a fiction trade paperback in 2012 was $16.92. (“Trade” means a paperback produced for sale in bookstores.) I own roughly 400 titles, about 300 trade paperbacks and 100 hardcovers, which go for about $28.73 a pop. At those prices, I would have...

Update: June 19, 7 p.m. You know how when you 'buy' a Kindle book, you're more of a licensee than an owner? Console games are also entering the world of Digital Rights Management (DRM) restrictions, and there was fear that the Xbox One would follow suit. As of this afternoon, however, Microsoft has completely reversed its gaming DRM restrictions for the Xbox One. Microsoft published the announcement, written by Microsoft's president of interactive media Don Mattrick, mon the Xbox...

"We had one customer that had to have her computer reformatted due to a virus and lost her paid antivirus software in the process," says Dieteman. "They wouldn't refund her money she had paid for a year up front only give her a credit for software she didn't want." Instead, free software like Microsoft Security Essentials, Avast! or AVG will give you free protection. Just don't download and install the entire Internet. 3. Xbox Live Gold Unless you're a hardcore gamer, Xbox Live Gold is a...

So it's not that poor people are less intelligent than the affluent, it's that their brains are more taxed. The study isn't measuring those in totally impoverished conditions, but those in financial strainsomething many Americans are no doubt familiar with. "The poor do quite well with the task at hand," says Shafir. But while they're focused on managing dollars and cents, the "less mind they have for other things." It's more that their fluid intelligencethe way we make sense of abstract...

Indeed, some of these top ten slogans have been around forever, while a few others have been or are in the middle of being replaced. Last month, Burger King announced it would morph its 40-year-old "Have it your way" slogan (which was third most recalled but didn't make the top ten most liked), into "Be your way." Taco Bell's "Think outside the bun," which was the eighth favorite and ninth most recalled slogan, was replaced by the "Live Más" slogan in 2012. And earlier this year, the Milk...