From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 19 Nov 2025 15:19:00 -0500, William Hyde   
    wrote:   
      
   >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.   
      
   I don't do pre-orders.   
      
   I don't like suspense.   
      
   Well, not in real life, anyway.   
   --    
   "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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