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To: yard_man who wrote (27345)	4/11/1998 8:46:00 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

barry, no need to pay amazon's over inflated prices. check out this web site that finds the cheapest books on the net (few of which are from amazon ;-) acses.com happy hunting :-)

To: yard_man who wrote (27345)	4/11/1998 9:10:00 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

barry, they include shipping. good luck. amzn leap puts? it is a single digit stock even if it does a 2 for 1 reverse split -ng-

To: yard_man who wrote (27345)	4/12/1998 10:40:00 AM
From: Knighty Tin	Respond to of 132070

BArry, Browsing is tough at Amazon. You have to pretty much know the author or the title to make any headway at all. If you go for the lists, they tend to use the best sellers, which makes sense for them, but not for me. Also, they use a lot of publisher's blurbs. I hate most of those. I saw a paperback with an intriguing title on the racks yesterday. The blurb said, "reading this is just like watching an episode of The X-Files." My first impression was, oh, great, a boring story about two homely FBI agents seeking unlikely creatures. But I read the synopsis and considered buying. On Amazon, one quote like the X-files one would have turned me off forever without another look. I have seen the same thing many times. "As good as Elmore Leonard, maybe better," one quote read. I can't stand Elmore Leonard. In a book store, I am likely to go beyond such turnoff statements. On Amazon, it stops me dead in my tracks. MB