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> On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 07:37:40PM -0500, mjd-perl-pm@plover.com wrote:
> > Also as long as we are on the subject, I just found out about ABEbooks
> > this week, and I think it's really wonderful.
>
> Hmmm...I guess this explains how you managed to buy $550 worth of
> books in the past week. :-)
No, that's $550 worth of books *up to* last week, and the explanation
is that I bought textbooks for sixteen students for a class I taught
in Chicago in December. I haven't added the ABEbooks books to the
total because they're all used and out of print and I probably
wouldn't have bought them from Amazon anyway.
The ABEbooks purchases total about $35 or so, mostly because I just
ordered a copy of a book about the Walled City of Kowloon, from a
bookstore in England, for about $20.
The really amazing thing about ABE is that often the cheapest copy of
a book will be in England, even if you count in shipping costs. Try
doing *that* without the internet!
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