This is great news. I have loved the book and its illustrations since I was a kid. I'm curious of the weeding really will improve value as opposed to "interestingness" which may be a different metric.

Elie points to a blog post by someone who is on the board

sorry, that would be ABOUT, not by.

I just wanted to mention briefly that commenters Elie and Holden above seem to actually RUN their own charitable foundation and I find their remarks a little disingenuous in terms of how Holden claims to know nothing about Heifer and Elie points to a blog post by someone who is on the board of the organization he runs without pointing this point out.

http://www.givewell.net/people

More on MetaFilter which, full disclosure, I am employed by

http://metatalk.metafilter.com/15547/GiveWell-or-Give-em-Hell

I'll be giving my money to Books to Prisoners and Food Not Bombs.