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Attempting to cut down on spending and get rid of books I will never read by signing up for Book Mooch and Paperback Swap.
Went through some books the other day that have been on shelves for years, reading first few pages and maybe a few in the middle, and deciding if I was ever likely to read more, ie, were they interesting or amusing at all.
Books which survived: "Love Lies Bleeding" by Edmund Crispin; "Cugel's Saga" by Jack Vance; "Get Lucky" by Suzanne Brockmann; "Seadragons" by Laurence Yep; "Psion" by Joan D. Vinge (reading now-- yes, totally my subject matter, yet resisted all previous attempts to read; this time I decided to skip the prologue, which, like most prologues, turned out to be both dull and totally unnecessary as the first chapter explains everything anyway.)
Did not survive cull: "Cheysuli" books by Jennifer Roberson; "Upright Man" by Michael Marshall; a bunch of mysteries, most of a theoretically lighthearted and amusing nature.
Also posted books which I love but have duplicates of, generally because I loved them so much that I accidentally bought them twice, and books which I read and didn't like:
Books which are now up for grabs:
http://www.paperbackswap.com/members/book_shelf.php
The Book Mooch system has crashed, but I'll post it later when it recovers.
PS. My finger is better but that's still my typing for the day.
Went through some books the other day that have been on shelves for years, reading first few pages and maybe a few in the middle, and deciding if I was ever likely to read more, ie, were they interesting or amusing at all.
Books which survived: "Love Lies Bleeding" by Edmund Crispin; "Cugel's Saga" by Jack Vance; "Get Lucky" by Suzanne Brockmann; "Seadragons" by Laurence Yep; "Psion" by Joan D. Vinge (reading now-- yes, totally my subject matter, yet resisted all previous attempts to read; this time I decided to skip the prologue, which, like most prologues, turned out to be both dull and totally unnecessary as the first chapter explains everything anyway.)
Did not survive cull: "Cheysuli" books by Jennifer Roberson; "Upright Man" by Michael Marshall; a bunch of mysteries, most of a theoretically lighthearted and amusing nature.
Also posted books which I love but have duplicates of, generally because I loved them so much that I accidentally bought them twice, and books which I read and didn't like:
Books which are now up for grabs:
http://www.paperbackswap.com/members/book_shelf.php
The Book Mooch system has crashed, but I'll post it later when it recovers.
PS. My finger is better but that's still my typing for the day.
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One would think that by now editors would just chuck "Prologue" chapters into the shredder and send the rest of the manuscript along to the typesetters.
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with your username of course.
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Also did you get the credit from my signing up?
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I won't receive the credit until you post nine books, but if you put my name in: thanks! :)
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At least my first Eerie, Indiana book is on its way to me. Whee!
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I ahve a set of books which I'm probably never going to read again, but I enjoyed a lot and can't bring myself to get rid of yet. I really need to steel myself and get rid of them. XD
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Hate and suspicion! Suspicion and hate!
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How do I cancel or suspend my membership?
A simple email to us at the feedback area with the request to close the account is all that is needed.
The reason a member cannot close his or her account automatically is because we have to check for outstanding requests, books en route, etc. It would be unfair to other members to leave items incomplete. Once a member requests cancellation, we close the account and handle outstanding items.
Thanks so much for making that clear initially, guys! And while I've noticed now that that info is in the Help section, it's at the very bottom of the long "About PBS" section and not in "Account Options" where it would logically fit. Oh, well.
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:-(
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If you havne't set a nickname in the My Account > Account Settings area, it may show up. Once you do, it should be at http://[your nickname].paperbackswap.com/profile/index.php
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Wow, what a sucky, non-obvious way of doing things.
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Nifty thing, though: when you send a book, you can print out the shipping label on printer paper and use it to wrap up the book, and it's already addressed: all you have to do is put stamps on it and send. But the interface and their strenuous yipping at me would make me focus on BookMooch if it weren't for the Eerie, Indiana books there.
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Prologues tend to strike authors as an opportunity to write in either impenetrable stream of consciousness (sometimes entirely in italics) which will bore and confuse everyone who will like the more straightforward style the rest of the book is written in, or a dry-as-dust history of the last ten millennia of the setting, which will likewise bore everyone who will enjoy the show-not-tell style of the rest of the book. In both cases, the information contained in the prologue is either revealed in a less expository manner later on or immediately therafter anyway, or is not necessary (in which case it should have gone into an appendix, the author's website, or the author's wastepaper basket.)