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Whither used books?
Over the weekend, the great weeding project of 2011 finally got started. This is a fairly daunting task, as this is an 1,800 sq. ft house, and there are books in every room except the laundry room....
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Book Mooch is not my mother
The admins at Book Mooch are concerned about the amount of work it takes to give 300 books away to people who really, really want them. So, allegedly out of concern for me, they deleted the half of my...
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The Mysteriousness of Collecting
I’m staring at shelves again. And some of them are even empty. I’m also thinking about Booklist’s mystery theme this month, and there IS a connection. There are certain kinds of mysteries I enjoy....
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Docking the ARCs
It turns out that ARCs are surprisingly difficult to give away. What’s an ARC? An ARC is an Advance Reading Copy of a book. They are usually ugly, and their mother dressed them a little funny, to make...
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Are eTBRs easier to forget?
A thread in rec.arts.sf.written that was discussing the merits of ereaders vs. “dead tree” books raised some interesting corollary questions that don’t seem to have anything to do with the technology...
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Who am I this time?
The above is the title of a surprisingly sweet made-for-TV movie starring Christopher Walken and Susan Sarandon from before Walken was firmly entrenched as the weird crazy evil guy. It was a long time...
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