Recently there was a post on the forums about Magic Street and there was a very generous offer by John Binder to purchase copies for people. Even though I was only a lurker on the forums, not even a registered user, I sent my address and was promptly sent the book. I've now read the book, which I loved, and would love to pass it on to someone else who can't afford to to buy it. Send an email to akidderz@yahoo.com with you address and I will send you my copy. Figured it was the least I could do.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
I love Hatrack.
Posted by Nell Gwyn (Member # 8291) on :
Hi akidderz, I just emailed you. I'm a bit of a lurker on here too, but hopefully not for much longer. If no one's beaten me to it, I'll continue the passing on of the book cuz that such a great idea!
I don't know if other Hatrackers are familiar with this site, but might a Bookcrossing log be started so its journey can be followed?
Posted by R. Ann Dryden (Member # 8186) on :
I'd heard about that but honestly forgot all about it. What a great idea! Really John should start it since he was the first link in the chain, then akidderz can also add to the journal and it can just grow from there. Awesome idea!
Posted by JaimeBenlevy (Member # 6222) on :
My email is sportsstar327 AT aol.com. I also emailed you a little while ago, forgot to post it here.
Posted by Orson Scott Card (Member # 209) on :
Jaime, that's a smart way to list an address without having webcrawlers find it and spam you to death. Maybe everybody else already uses that ... but it's the first time I saw it.
Posted by MidnightBlue (Member # 6146) on :
I saw it used a lot a while ago on the other side. I think it was a thread heavily relying on email addresses.
Posted by akidderz (Member # 8371) on :
Nell Gwyn -- you were the first. Sending it out on Monday morning. I'm going to try and put the information in the BookCrossing site and see what happens.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Careful, OSC; that's common enough that more sophisticated crawlers actually look for that sort of thing. The old tomdavidson@nospam.mail.com bit, too -- where you'd manually remove the nospam line -- is also vulnerable to modern programs.
Posted by JaimeBenlevy (Member # 6222) on :
So how do I protect my address? It's ridiculous already how hard people try to spam you when they know you just delete it in 2 seconds.
Posted by Nell Gwyn (Member # 8291) on :
Whee!! New OSC and new Harry Potter in the same week!!
Life is good.
I'll post when it's ready to be passed on again. Posted by A Rat Named Dog (Member # 699) on :
The sad thing is, they wouldn't keep spamming you if SOMEONE wasn't buying their crap.
Posted by Nell Gwyn (Member # 8291) on :
Well, I finally finished reading Magic Street between going to work and entertaining houseguests - YEAH, OSC!! I thought it was fantastic. I really want to reread it, but I know I won't have time for the next several weeks, so the time has come to pass it on.
Same deal: first person to email me through my profile gets the book - I'll take it to the post office tomorrow. (I won't post my email in an effort to avoid the aforementioned ubiquitous spammers.)
akidderz, were you able to set up a Bookcrossing journal for it? There are only two copies in their registry, but neither quite sounded like this one. If not, I'll start one. I've never actually used the site before, but I've been wanting to for a good long while now - this is the perfect opportunity.
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