Not Entirely Given Up On Instant Gratification

While I didn't find anything to buy at Fry's yesterday, I did visit BookBuyers this evening and found Saunders MacLane and Garrett Birkhoff's Algebra and could not resist.

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Selling at Book Buyers

If you've sold at Book Buyers in Mountain View, what's their actual policy on selling for cash? Their website makes it sound as though they rarely buy books: "Cash is offered for a very limited range of items. We are more likely to pay cash for books in categories in which we specialize or have ongoing shortages. The most likely cash areas are: Music CD's & DVD's, large expensive pictorial ...

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A week of celebrations and seafood

... the heavy lifting in the data centre where it belongs, and EverNote - who were in the middle of a feature planning session that looks like it will answer most of my complaints) and taking books to BookBuyers. Lunch with Skyfire at Maru Ichi where the black garlic in the roast pork ramen is wonderful and while the eel in the combination plate is yummy, it doesn't leave you enough space to eat all ...

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getting ready to travel

... by courier is just a little more than cost of food and add flea treatment. Send to Simon because it doesn't like my credit card. Clean rug: not this time I fear. Sort out books for BookBuyers: pile in middle hall, pile in front hall. Review two netbooks: realise only one ever arrived :( UPDATE: Remember to actually post review at http://www.itpro.co.uk/blogs/maryb/ ) UPDATE: Scan *yet more* ...

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Day 3.

Well... I packaged some books for sending away to the bookbuyers of major retailers; read some manuscripts; met with the rights saleswoman who's given me a project to do involving a book about euthanasia; and I've been given a project about a book on Scottish people in America, I'm trying to find some quotes by Obama that sort of fit the theme of nations merging and blahblahblah, and I'm getting ...

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News: Bay Area Indie Bookstores Beat the Odds

... feel so nostalgic for book shopping in the Northern Bay Area, like San Francisco and Berkeley. There's a couple of little indie bookstores down here in the South Bay - I'm a huge fan of Bookbuyers in Mountain View, All Ears Audio Books in Saratoga and Hicklebee's in Willow Glen - but Green Apple Books up on Clement Street must have the best used selection of any store in the Bay Area. I ...

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