Too many books

[andyhat]

You know you buy too much mail-order stuff when you need a dolly to get the week's packages out of The UPS Store and into the car.

After opening the boxes, this week's stack is 46 books, arriving from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Shocklines, and Cold Tonnage Books. Yikes. I really need to control this bookbuying habit of mine.

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[nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com]

Forty-six books!

Anything good?

[andyhat.livejournal.com]

Well, I'll have to read them before I know whether they're good or not.

But the stack includes lots of stuff I'm particularly looking forward to reading. Neal Stephenson's new book, the James Morrow and Eileen Gunn collections from Tachyon, two new Night Shade books (the M. John Harrison novel, and Collected Jorkens Volume 2), Adam Roberts' The Snow, Nalo Hopkinson's The Salt Roads, Alexander Irvine's newish novel, the new John Crowley reprint collection, Stross' The Atrocity Archives, a bunch of the original DAW anthologies from this year, and other anthologies (The Faery Reel, Flights, and Crossroads).

[gardenwaltz.livejournal.com]

i..i...can i live in your world? i want to live in a world where the ups man needs a dolly. this is now on my list of identifiers of a quality lifestyle.

[the-does.livejournal.com]

I second that "!"

[benpeek.livejournal.com]

i feel real good about my book buying habits now :)

[avantpop.livejournal.com]

You mean you haven't been buying books from abebooks.com, ebay, booksamillion.com and clarkesworld.com?

[andyhat.livejournal.com]

I should have an order arriving from clarkesworld next weekend, and I've got several outstanding orders from abebooks, too. I don't order many books from ebay, though; I just don't have time to mess around with bidding. Is booksamillion's pricing any better than amazon's? When I've checked them, I haven't noticed that there was enough difference to bother. If I want deep discounts, I'll use overstock.com, but their search engine sucks, so I tend to only use them on more expensive books or ones that amazon doesn't discount.

[avantpop.livejournal.com]

And you didn't order one of my books from Clarkesworld??

http://www.clarkesworldbooks.com/book_HEMROSHC.html

[andyhat.livejournal.com]

Actually, I did. It's included in the Clarkesworld order that should be arriving next weekend :)

[avantpop.livejournal.com]

ah.... ;)

[kchew.livejournal.com]

Wow. *genuflects* Is this a normal purchase pattern for you, or do you save up and go crazy a few times a year?

[andyhat.livejournal.com]

An average week is closer to 5 incoming books, I'd say. But sometimes a bunch of orders all happen to arrive at the same time and I get a stack like this weeks'. I think this week's shipments included 3 separate amazon orders and 2 B&N orders from the last few months.

[retch.livejournal.com]

Wowza, ok you just made me feel a lot less bad about my own impulsive book buying. I'm nowhere near that bad (though hardcovers do stack up fast, ack!!)