Comments on Num Num Num

"Cheaper" and "college textbook" are mutually exclusive terms.

I was keen on LibraryThing for about a month, during which I engaged in a running battle with the Vladimir Nabokov House Museum Library in St. Petersburg to see who had the larger Nabokov collection. I lost, eventually, but not by as much as you might think. Last I checked several months ago I was still #2 -- and still #1 with my Kingsley Amis collection.

Aside from silliness like that I can't really see the point of it. One huge, huge problem, as with any user-generated content online, is BAD METADATA. Book owners are frequently TERRIBLE cataloguers, and don't know piffling details about their own books like the author and title.

I didn't realize Amazon had bought AbeBooks. That would explain why I recently (in the last few weeks) started getting AbeBooks emails trying to sell me things, when that has never happened in the 5 or so years that I've been buying books from them!

Oh, great, I go to check it again, and they don't have that "who has the most books by this author" link anymore. Bzzt.

Just as well, though; the VNM Library has about 20 times as many VN items as me now. Crushed!

yes, SOME Amazon employees call their company "The 'Zon"...

The majority of Amazon employees who DON'T, like to refer to those who DO, as "Lameass Douchebags"...

The correct spelling for that particular internet-onomatopoeia is "Om nom nom."

Just so you know.