From: wthyde1953@gmail.com   
      
   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.   
      
   I am still waiting for one book from my Amazon order of last October.   
   According to their website they have a copy, but I have received emails   
   telling me that no delivery time can be predicted.   
      
   I've never had such delays from abebooks, or chess.com.  But Wheeler's   
   autobiography from the American institute of physics was so delayed that   
   I bought a used copy at Mason's books in Toronto.   
      
      
   William Hyde   
      
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