Oh, good idea.

[naomikritzer]

From matociquala...

I, Naomi Kritzer, do solemnly swear never to comment on an Amazon customer review. If I ever succumb to said stupid temptation you have my permission to force-feed me a mixture of the five vilest substances known to humanity: light rum, baked beans, Circus Peanuts, that Canola-based dairy-free fake butter spread that tasted like flavored petroleum jelly, and okra.

I learned a long time ago not to visit my Amazon pages, actually. Reading the reviews either depresses me (if they're bad) or makes me anxious (if they're overly enthusiastic) (because I'm afraid I'll let them down). I want all my fans to review me (early! often! enthusiastically!) but I never (okay, rarely) read them. Ed visits my Amazon pages for me to track my numbers. I stay away.

I do hope someone will drop me an e-mail with linkage the first couple of times authors decide to make fools of themselves by arguing with their reviewers, though, because there's nothing quite like a good online train wreck to brighten up a rainy afternoon. (And I can visit other people's pages on Amazon. I use Amazon all the time -- if I want a book on a particular topic, I use Amazon to scope out my options, and then request the ones I want from the library. It's just the pages with my books that I avoid.)

Comments

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

oh! Do you have the library look up tool? (http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/stories/2002/12/11/librarylookup.html) It may take a little tinkering to get it working for your library (or not), but it's *well* worth it. Makes looking up books the easiest thing ever. I loff mine.

So handy to have a librarian in the house...

[devonbree.livejournal.com]

Lee-Anne wants to know if you've had a look at the 'Find in a Library' tool at http://www.worldcat.org/ ? It's a really easy tool for locating the nearest libraries that have particular items and allows you click directly to the library catalogs at those locations. Even if your local library doesn't have it, of course, you can get it there through interlibrary loan.

She also suggests that you can set Google Toolbar's AutoLink function to perform the WorldCat search on any ISBN it sees on a webpage. That would be a slick way to search for a book, and it's independent of what catalog software your library uses.

[joykins1.livejournal.com]

You'll like this one, I think. Good book actually, too.

http://www.amazon.com/Render-Unto-Caesar-Gillian-Bradshaw/dp/0765306549/sr=8-1/qid=1159459904/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-9003700-7731342?ie=UTF8&s=books

[naomikritzer]

Oh, that's hilarious.

I might cave to temptation in that particular situation. ::sigh::

You've seen Anne Rice's Amazon meltdown, right?