Procrastination post
- About #AmazonFail: I haven't been tracking every post on it, though I think I have the gist. I am currently still deciding what to do; I have an Amazon credit card, and the extra $25 gift certificate every so often is really nice when I'm not allowing myself to buy books due to the student budget. On the other hand, I think I will start researching ( Read more... )
And I totally do not think you are obliged to support indie bookstores that look down on your tastes! They don't deserve this if they haven't got the basic business sense to at least pretend to respect your tastes in reading.
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I like indie bookstores, but about 50% of the ones I've patronized have, er, patronized me. Or the workers have just been uncommunicative and unfriendly and acted like I was an imposition on their time and wouldn't stop talking to their friends to sell me books or whatnot. And when one egregious example sent out an email to everyone explaining how they were losing money and we should all run and buy books from them immediately so they could pay their rent, I then DELETED THE EMAIL WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE.
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Oooo, I like that! I was thinking blah blah transnational something something diasporic something something as well. Er, if that is what you were.
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Hee, this is pretty much exactly the title I'd come up with in my head!
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