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Welcome to "On the Net Today". Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we bring you a handpicked selection of three valuable and interesting online resources to help you get the most out of the internet and optimize your browsing time.

Here are the three resources we've prepared for today:

• Black Friday and Cyber Monday: tips for safe shopping

• Best Books of 2024: Selection of lists

• Spectacular Image Gallery of International Landscape Photography Award Winners

Black Friday and Cyber Monday: tips for safe shopping

Today, Friday November 29, is Black Friday, the day that marks the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. Black Friday originated in the United States, where it's always celebrated the day after Thanksgiving, and has spread throughout the world.

Additionally, this coming Monday will be Cyber Monday, a day focused on online shopping.

Both Black Friday and Cyber Monday are centered around commercial offers from physical stores and online retailers worldwide.

At "On the Net Today" we don't have any special offers to make 😉, but we wanted to share several links where you'll find practical recommendations to shop as safely as possible:

• Top 10 Black Friday Shopping Tips for 2024 – Consumer Reports

  Follow CR's advice to get the best deals now and throughout the holiday season

• Five ways to avoid being ripped off on Black Friday – BBC News

• Black Friday scams: How can shoppers better protect themselves? - Euro News

Best Books of 2024: Selection of lists

Various media outlets and specialized sites have begun publishing their lists of the best books of 2024.

At "On the Net Today" we have compiled some of the main ones:

• 100 Notable Books of 2024 – The New York Times

  Here is the standout fiction and nonfiction of the year, selected by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

• The 10 best books of 2024 – The Washington Post

  The year’s best fiction and nonfiction, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.

• Best Books 2024 – Publishers Weekly

• Readers’ Favorite Books of 2024 - Goodreads

• The Best Books of 2024 – Barnes & Noble

• The Best Books of 2024 – Amazon.com

• The best books of 2024, as chosen by The Economist – The Economist

  Readers will never think the same way again about games, horses and spies

• The best books of the year 2024 – Financial Times

  From economics, politics and history to science, art, food and, of course, fiction — our annual round-up brings you top titles picked by FT writers and critics

• The Best Books We’ve Read in 2024 So Far - The New Yorker

  Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Google publishes a print magazine in Europe

Google, the main internet search engine, has recently launched a printed magazine in Europe.

It's called Forward, a magazine published in various languages, including Spanish, which has dedicated its first issue to artificial intelligence and the historic opportunity it offers, according to Google, to accelerate economic growth and competitiveness in Europe.

The cover headline is "Building the Future with AI." The 36-page magazine is available for free in digital replica format on the Issuu platform.

In France, Google publishes the magazine "Azerty" and in Germany, "Aufbruch Magazin"

Link:

• FORWARD - European Perspectives on Tech & Society - No. 01 (EU) – Google English version 

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