Hi fellow Book Freaks,Last week's newsletter was a bit of a change of pace from the usual format. Instead of running four excerpts from one book, I ran four excerpts from four different books. I asked you to let me know what you thought of the new format. Slightly less than half the people who responded said they liked new format, and slightly more than half said they liked the old format. Here are some comments:People who liked four excerpts from four books:I like the quick quotes from books.Like the new format. It quickly introduces me to books I wouldn't have otherwise known about. Reminds me of the Three Times Wiser newsletter.I did like the new format with quotes from different books.People who liked four excerpts from one book:I loved the format of this newsletter, covering a whole book. This new format feels like an Instagram page.Did not like the multiple book format.I like the other format better since I could get a better feeling for a book!People who didn't seem to mind either format but had a comment anyway:Even though I like the idea of receiving quotes from various sources in the same e-mail, I believe that they should have a common theme among them to create a sense of identity. So, I think you can do quotes from the same or from different books if they share some thematic relationship.We love that you distill whole books into a few amazing thoughts, but we don't care where the amazing ideas come from! Thanks for a newsletter that's easy to engage with in a laidback way. Always worth my time!My takeaway from this is that I will go back to the old format. The comment that really hit home was, "I like the other format better since I could get a better feeling for a book."Thanks to all of you who weighed in on the issue, and thanks for being a Book Freak reader!— MarkHere are four brief excerpts from a book about dealing with the unexpected: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.