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Jan. 31st, 2012 16:04Saturday January 28, 2012. Science-fictional diagnoses: Multiple Reality Disorder. Dyschronia.
***Email from Goodreads (http://www.goodreads.com.) Previously, if a book wasn't already listed on Goodreads, the bibliographic information could easily be downloaded from Amazon. (Or, with a bit more trouble, taken from another site. Or even from a physical copy of the book.) Now they've decided to stop using Amazon info -- and Amazon says they have to stop by January 30. Anything on my lists whose info is taken from Amazon will be deleted, unless I add info from another source.
Turned out most of the twenty books they listed would be merged with other editions, rather than than eliminated. For some of the rest, I got info from the Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base (http://isfdb.org). The others I let lapse.
***Party at DreamHaven Books. DreamHaven is going mostly mail order (open for walk-in sales, and/or readings, one day or more each month.) Specialized brick and mortar sf bookstores could compete with the chains; but Amazon is another matter.
Refreshments included brain and blood (simulated) cupcakes.
Music by Todd Menton.
Pictures here: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/2012/01280-dreamhaven/
There's still one fulltime sf bookstore left in Minneapolis. But I liked DreamHaven better than Uncle Hugo's.
***Email from Goodreads (http://www.goodreads.com.) Previously, if a book wasn't already listed on Goodreads, the bibliographic information could easily be downloaded from Amazon. (Or, with a bit more trouble, taken from another site. Or even from a physical copy of the book.) Now they've decided to stop using Amazon info -- and Amazon says they have to stop by January 30. Anything on my lists whose info is taken from Amazon will be deleted, unless I add info from another source.
Turned out most of the twenty books they listed would be merged with other editions, rather than than eliminated. For some of the rest, I got info from the Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base (http://isfdb.org). The others I let lapse.
***Party at DreamHaven Books. DreamHaven is going mostly mail order (open for walk-in sales, and/or readings, one day or more each month.) Specialized brick and mortar sf bookstores could compete with the chains; but Amazon is another matter.
Refreshments included brain and blood (simulated) cupcakes.
Music by Todd Menton.
Pictures here: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/2012/01280-dreamhaven/
There's still one fulltime sf bookstore left in Minneapolis. But I liked DreamHaven better than Uncle Hugo's.