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View From The Porch (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
The four walls of the dining room at Roseholme Cottage sport floor-to-ceiling shelving devoted to naught but my roommate's SciFi books, shelved alphabetically. She's posted a picture of the Aaa-Far wall . I always shelved non-fiction by a rough Tamara Decimal System and shelved fiction by author , but Instead of arranging authors alphabetically, they were ordered by how likely I was to want to grab...
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The World in the Satin Bag (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
There was an enormous book sale here in Gainesville over the last few days and I thought I’d let you all know what I got (a lot of stuff, actually). Next time, in April, I don’t think I will be going quite as all out, mostly because I don’t have as much need for a lot of books anymore. I intentionally went this year trying to find things to use for my research, and now I’m only...
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Ask Nicola (Free subscription) | 08/01/2009
Over at Author Central they're planning a special series starting today: Every day during August a different author will be spotlighted in their own thread in our Author Central forum. We encourage all to visit on that day and post photographs, reminiscences, cover scans, links to appropriate sites, reviews, and other reactions. With 31 days and 31 authors there's a chance to share what you know as...
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