Re: What Did You Watch? 2012-05-24 (Thursday)

shawn sent the following on 6/6/2012 5:54 PM:
On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:04:46 -0400, Mason Barge<masonbarge@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Sun, 3 Jun 2012 14:17:15 -0700 (PDT), David Johnston
<davidjohnston29yahoocom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sunday, June 3, 2012 1:57:12 PM UTC-7, Jim G. wrote:
David Johnston sent the following on 6/1/2012 10:40 AM:
On Friday, June 1, 2012 9:15:45 AM UTC-6, Jim G. wrote:

I read somewhere that something like 95% of the people who bought the book
didn't read more than 20 pages of it.

That's just sad. Why buy it, then?

People don't always know they won't like a book before they buy it.

Then borrow it from the library!


What would be the point in buying a book I've already read?

LOL, I've done it more than once!

I actually just did it. I gave someone my copy of The Good German and
then decided I wanted to read it again :)

What ticks me off is when I buy the same book twice. Only happened
once to me and I'm still not sure how it happened. Ended up with two
of the hardcover copies of ... umm.. a Tom Clancy novel.. maybe Sum of
All Fears.

Addressing that particular problem was one of the first things I ever put my first PC to work to accomplish. Nowadays, I track my read stuff on Goodreads (online), LibraryThing (online) and Readerware (offline). (I'll use my bookish sig file in case anyone is interested.)

--
Jim G. | Waukesha, WI
http://www.goodreads.com/jimgysin/
http://www.librarything.com/home/jimgysin
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