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I bought a gift for a coworker's baby shower, and it seems that Amazon wants me to subscribe to every-other-month deliveries of this diaper bag clutch.

Perhaps I am mistaken, but I don't think they're going to need that many bags.

Amazon is rolling out a new feature called Book Clubs, which as far as I can tell is a discussion board that you can talk about books on, and do some admin stuff like suggest books (from Amazon, natch) for the club to talk about. Right now it's in beta and anyone can join but only some people can create.

I have, for some inexplicable reason, been chosen as one of the ones to create. I don't even remember how I found out--I think I was browsing late one night and got the option to suggest a book for a book club, thought "What's that?" and clicked on the link.

Anyone else here know about it?

There seems to be a strange new edition of this book...

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edit: Okay, so the thing under the cut is a (ginormous, sorry) screenshot from Amazon of Susan Sontag's On Photography, which has inexplicably acquired the subtitle of "Kushiel's Legacy."

There's a WHOLE BUNCH MORE. Including Augusten Burroughs, Tom Wolfe, and more Sontag.

Crossposts: http://telophase.livejournal.com/2661248.html

Taken from an Amazon review of WOOSH: Spaceship Sketches from the Couch, whose first line of description is "WOOSH! is a collection of personal spaceship sketches created by entertainment designer Lorin Wood as he decompressed on his couch after a long day at work."

I also didn't realize that this book mostly shows drawings done while reclining on the couch?

Crossposts: http://telophase.livejournal.com/2603234.html

Replacing our can opener with America's Test Kitchen's current top-rated can opener, and I notice that we seem to be getting quite the deal with it.

Hah! And the same can opener on eBay, as pointed out by a friend on Facebook: ( Read more... )

Crossposts: http://telophase.livejournal.com/2549216.html

I don't remember which of you mentioned the early 20th century novel _Living Alone_, but I ended up highlighting a bunch of passages in it, and I almost never do that in books. It was short and charming, although unfortunately marred by two instances of (typical for the time) racism.

However, that is not why I'm posting this. I'm posting this because Amazon obviously keeps an eye on what I'm reading on the Kindle, although its algorithm seems to be going by the title and not the content, and now Amazon is recommending books to me that would make Toby very worried if he didn't find it as hilarious as I do.

Examples:

Freedom from Loneliness
Living Alone and Loving It
Surviving & Thriving Solo
Going Solo
Single
Live Alone and Like It
The Single Woman's Sassy Survival Guide
Finding Forever Love

WHAT DO YOU KNOW THAT YOU'RE NOT TELLING ME, AMAZON?!

Crossposts: http://telophase.livejournal.com/2429974.html

Amazon's "Customers Who Bought Items in Your Recent History Also Bought" listing for me today includes on of the greater spreads of subject matter that I've encountered yet recommended for me. The ten 'pages' of recommendations include:

Mythical Beasts of Japan Koichi Yumoto
Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-West Victoria Glendinning
Orlando (Annotated): A Biography ›Virginia Woolf
Home Made Summer ›Yvette van Boven
A Fine Romance: Falling in Love with the English Countryside ›Susan Branch
Muse of Fire John Scalzi
The Carpet People Terry Pratchett
Anthology of Chinese Literature Confucius
POLPO: A Venetian Cookbook ›Russell Norman
Demons from the Haunted World ›Yoshitoshi Taiso
Gardening at Sissinghurst ›Tony Lord
Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter ›Diana Souhami
The Mac + Cheese Cookbook ›Allison Arevalo
Deborah Harry Platinum Blonde Cathy Che
Shadows Robin McKinley
Ancillary Justice Ann Leckie
The Serpent of Venice: A Novel Christopher Moore
Sea Room: An Island Life in the Hebrides ›Adam Nicolson

Amazon really, really wants me to buy Vita Sackville-West today. I've got a number of her books recommended.

Crossposts: http://telophase.livejournal.com/1894685.html

...the time of year when Amazon boxes arrive and stack up and you're not sure whether it's something you ordered for yourself, something you ordered for someone else, something someone else ordered for you, or something someone else ordered for you that accidentally got sent to you.

Crossposts: http://telophase.livejournal.com/1810507.html

Whoever it was that bought the camera back in April through my Amazon referral code ... thank you! :D

Mom came through with an Amazon gift certificate because I made her busienss cards at the last minute last week, so it was a nice haul. :)

( Books ordered )

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