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The Sharing Solution: How to Save Money, Simplify Your Life, and Build Community By Janelle Orsi and Emily Doskow Nolo, Berkeley, California, 2009; Paperback, 496 pages
Nolo is well known for publishing "do it yourself" books and software to help people write their own wills, set up nonprofit corporations, apply for patents, and much more. While a book on how to share (The Sharing Solution: How to Save Money, Simplify Your Life, and Build Community) might seem, at first glance, to be a bit afield from Nolo's typical genre, The Sharing Solution is, still, about autonomy. The focus is on how you yourself can create the life you want by using your creative energy to meet your needs in satisfying ways rather than waiting for someone else or the government to do it for you. And, in the Nolo fashion, the book includes lots of forms and sample agreements to avoid the need for hiring expensive professionals to create them for you.
The Sharing Solution is broken into two main sections. The first section, entitled "Sharing Basics," offers tips for identifying your sharing goals,...