May. 7th, 2012

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Pro choice: you're doing it wrong. Really, really offensively wrong.

Signed, avid advocate for choice and clinic escort
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This week on "Dilemmas of the Overprivileged..."

Long story short; I have the option of buying trade paperbacks (a format I prefer) to replace a couple of mass market paperback books I have. Thing is, the mass market ones are signed to me.

I could keep the mass market ones, period. I could keep the mass markets and still get trade format reading copies.

Or I could get the trade paperbacks, take the signed title page out of the mass markets, stuff it in the trade version unless/until I can get them signed, and send the mass market versions back into the world.

I have to admit, I'm leaning very heavily towards that last option, even though it horrifies bibliophile friends for a variety of reasons. It ruins the value of the mass market books (which is, according to half.com, 75 cents to anyone who isn't me.) It's defiling a book. (True, but it's not making the copy unreadable, which IMO is the true defilement.) But I see it this way: with one good rip, I'm handing the author another royalty payment and clearing my bookshelf of a less-desired book while retaining the single page of sentimental value to myself.

Your thoughts?
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I know I've been chatty today, and that I owe writeups on Malice and the Mock Trial.

However, there's a time limit on this offer, so I want to get it out there. Author Chris Freeburn has given me copies of the Smashwords download code for a free ebook of her Dying for Redemption, an afterlife mystery that should be right up the alley of anyone who likes the Mary Stanton angelic lawyers series.

Freeburn's blurb )

My RtE review for the previous edition )

FIRST SIX PEOPLE TO ASK IN COMMENTS GET THE FREE DOWNLOAD CODE
ETA: Don't be put off by the number of comments; there's some discussion going on.

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