Just sent (approximately) the following to Amazon – accidentally dropped it from my paste buffer, but here’s the gist: I am absolutely livid that this book was sold. I realize I should have ordered the sample first, because I would have realized that 103 words (I counted) is a ridiculous length for a sample. But [...]
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Kindle
I bought a Kindle last night! I’m excited. I waited until I had enough money to buy it, and I finally put together enough – some from my coin jar, some from birthday gifts, some from refunds from things I had to send back. I bought the Kindle 2, because I don’t need the bigger [...]
Selling Schoolbooks for Fun and Profit
I had placed a Half.com order for Study of American Deaf Folklore a few weeks ago, and shortly after I got a refund because they didn’t have the book available. It was about $30 for a used copy, and at the time the only other one I could buy online was an $80 copy! I [...]
Skipping Reading
I have a lot of reading to do this semester. This morning I finished reading Chapter 4 for history, so that was good. But then I looked at what I was supposed to read next for English class, and it was the “Kenya” section of Barack Obama’s book Dreams from My Father. Now, we already [...]
New Stuff
We went to yard sales this morning; I got a copy of Diary of an Anorexic Girl to flip through and a copy of Guided Tours of Hell for :A: for 50 cents each, and two boxes of Girl Scout cookies for $1 each. The books are both basically new. I don’t know how much [...]
New Books
Last month I got my annual Amazon gift certificate for being a Literotica moderator, and it was more than it has been in years past. I also had a little over $20 from Mechanical Turk, so I added that to my gift certificate balance and then spent at least a week dithering over what to [...]
Library Thing
I mentioned Library Thing in a quicklinks post, but I hadn’t had time to fully investigate the site. Now I have, and this definitely merits its own entry. Like all good geeks and smart people, we have a few thousand books sitting around the house. Most are in bookcases, a few are in piles, some [...]
Books
I had better hurry up and finish reading Devils on the Deep Blue Sea quickly! I just went to renew it and on the same page I happened to notice that I am now #2 in the queue for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. I was approximately #600 when I signed up about four [...]
Books and Voicing
I did an excellent job on some voicing assignments yesterday, including a job interview I hadn’t been warned about. I knew the client was a difficult one to voice for, and I was hoping the “work meeting” wouldn’t be too interactive. When I learned it was a job interview for an internal position, I was [...]
Where’s Ruth?
I am sure that computers, technology, and the Internet have made her life much easier…but I don’t know how.