Comments on: WONDERS OF THE INTARWEB

By: Rich

Rich — Sun, 18 Jan 2004 13:06:04 +0000

One quick Edit -> Save -> Hit Character Limit, but the accents show now. :-)

By: pne

pne — Sun, 18 Jan 2004 08:00:33 +0000

Ditto on the current music and friends vs talkread page.

By: citizenx

citizenx — Sun, 18 Jan 2004 03:51:30 +0000

I’ve not used Abebooks much. In fact, I may have only used it the once, but it was a good one. My father was asking me if I knew of any good way to find out-of-print books because he was searching for, oh, I don’t recall precisely what it is now, but it was some scholarly-type literary criticism about a Greek playwright. He found copies through Amazon’s used book program, but they were magical ones impregnanted with fairy dust or some shit — at least they better be for $250+. He called me, I told him I’d look around, and then I remembered Abebooks. Ten minutes later I was forwarding him a copy of my receipt: $20 from some small shop somewhere in Pennsylvania. It arrived a week or so later, and everyone lived happily ever after. The end.

A side note for mendel: the fun and exciting characters in your current music field show up fine on my friends page but become ?s when I go to read/reply.

By: frobisher

frobisher — Sun, 18 Jan 2004 03:35:36 +0000

Lately I've been using addall for my book searching needs. They scan a whole bunch of sources including abebooks. The only downside at the moment is that they've now broken it up into new and used books, whereas before you could just do one search. Still, a handy tool.

By: pne

pne — Sun, 18 Jan 2004 01:15:31 +0000

I’ve ordered nearly twenty books through Abebooks before, and I’ve been very satisfied.

And I agree that they’re a great source to find hard-to-find, out-of-print books (for example, I got a copy of McEwen’s Niuean Dictionary through them).

Abebooks++