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Currently reading Graded Go Problems For Beginners, Vol 3 and Hikaru No Go Vol 9, and trying to understand some old 80s issues of 月刊　碁ワールド. The Beginner Exercises are good reading also.

I went to Japan in December 2007 to visit the Nihon Kiin and other cool places. I was interviewed by NHK television about go.

Go For Beginners - a good introduction for people used to reading concise rules
The Second Book of Go - a bit clunky, but has an excellent discussion of capturing races, and some good fuseki basics
Graded Go Problems For Beginners, Vol 1-3 - essential
Lessons In The Fundamentals of Go - highly entertaining, with some good commentary on pushing, ladders, etc
Opening Theory Made Easy - good
Tesuji - haven't read it for a while, but I remember finding it a bit difficult
Step Up to A Higher Level - good for 15 - 10k
Liping Huang's Problem Series, Vol 1 - decent, but not many problems in the book
Kage's Secret Chronicles of Handicap Go - entertaining, but too hard for kyu types
The Direction of Play - way above my level, at present
The Master of Go (Meijin) - readable docu-drama, with go as a placeholder for Japanese tradition generally
The Girl Who Played Go - straightforward novel o' doomed romance

My Go Software

Aya Go (iPhone app) - nice interface, feels like it's about 12k, crashes if you undo a move, no nigiri
Tetsuki (iPhone app) - IGS client
Sente Goban (OSX) - GNUgo + IGS client
Hikaru no Go (GBA) - adventure game with 9x9 bits (I picked this up in a used games store in Otaru, Hokkaido)

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