From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 18 Nov 2025 22:22:46 -0000 (UTC),   
   wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) wrote:   
      
   >In article <10fipp3$1rpcl$1@dont-email.me>,   
   >William Hyde   wrote:   
   >>It's been over a year since I sent an order to amazon, and the resulting    
   >>trips to bookstores have been very pleasant, if on occasion a bit  tiring.   
   >   
   >I preordered a book on some non-Amazon site whose name I've forgotten   
   >a few months back, and now, in addition to the name of the site, I've   
   >also forgotten which book it was, so I guess it will be a surprise   
   >when two copies of it show up at my door on the same day.   
   >   
   >That's the real lock-in of Amazon.   
      
   That's what financial manager programs are for -- recording pre-orders   
   with the expected reception date so you can always tell what it is and   
   who you pre-ordered it from.   
      
   Alternately, a spreadsheet or text file (even a plain-jane one) can   
   serve the same purpose.   
      
   The idea is to take /some/ control of one's life. At least enough to   
   not order the same book twice!   
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
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