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Dear 9 Chickweed Lane Scriptwriter
May. 7th, 2012 06:12 amPro choice: you're doing it wrong. Really, really offensively wrong.
Signed, avid advocate for choice and clinic escort
Signed, avid advocate for choice and clinic escort
May. 7th, 2012
A question for book fans
May. 7th, 2012 01:40 pmThis 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?
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?
BOOK OFFER: Dying for Redemption
May. 7th, 2012 07:22 pmI 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.
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.