Today was the last day of the big fall used book sale at my local library branch. To my chagrin, it was "fill a box for $10" day, which means I ended up with something like 18 books, including some information systems and user interface design textbooks, for $10. The box was far from full, but a combination of the tables being really picked over ( Read more... )

I feel like I need a weekend to recover from my weekend. (Okay, it's really more that I seriously do not want to go back to work tomorrow.) Friday evening nminusone and I met up with the fabulous jessicamelusine and friends to see "Elizabeth: The Golden Age". "Textile porn", Salon called it, and I don't disagree. Historically accurate? Probably not so much, but very ( Read more... )

What can I say? I'm impatient. (Also, I can't find any mention of a US release date yet.)

Dispatch estimate: 12 Sep 2007
Delivery estimate: 19 Sep 2007 - 21 Sep 2007 (More about estimates)
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Hello from Amazon.com.

We are pleased to report that the following item will ship
sooner than expected:

Alan Moore, Melinda Gebbie "Lost Girls Collected" [Hardcover]

Original shipping estimate when I pre-ordered a few weeks ago was, I think, October 10. Today ( Read more... )

bearing many books. Didn't leave at 1 as I'd planned and there was a rather annoying traffic backup between Manassas and Gainesville (never thought I'd envy the reported 18 mph average on 95 south, but it was three times what I was doing at that point), so ended up having just slightly under two hours at the book fair. I think two and a half ( Read more... )

It's time again for the Green Valley Book Fair, Aug. 19 - Sept. 4. For folks who haven't been yet, it's essentially a big book outlet sale that's only open a few times a year. The most I've ever paid for any single item there is $12, and that was for a $40 retail book on writing Dreamweaver MX extensions; most fiction titles I've found are in ( Read more... )

*drool*

It's local, but "Please note: BookExpo America is for the book publishing trade only and is not a public event. Be prepared to provide business card or company invoice."

winterbadger, I think you'll like this one: The Company of Books

Well, the book-buying restriction didn't last long. Longer than I expected, but not as long as I'd hoped to be able to hold out. Oops.

I swear I just went in to pick up a physical copy of Tom Limoncelli's Time Management for System Administrators, that's all. But see, there was a "new paperback" display in the front of the store, and a stumbled ( Read more... )

Eeee!!! Look what I found while *cough* innocently wandering around Amazon, window shopping:


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