The Perfect Thing

Steven Levy's latest book, The Perfect Thing, is an unabashed iPod lovefest. He finds the feature he loves the most in an iPod, random shuffling of songs, and applies it to all sorts of changes in people's daily lives due to the Internet. Along the way, he delivers a concise history of its development and precursors, and touches on how iPods make their owners happier. For what it's worth, the most interesting part of the book was the fact that it has four permutations that vary from copy to copy.