why not Pet Rocks?

[kip_w]

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I see they're closing another 200 28 Borders stores. The two around here were unscathed last time. I haven't looked at the PDF yet. I remember when Borders was the best book store chain in town.

I got one of their promo emails the other day, and they announced, as an inducement for us to come in and save their bottom line, free Silly Bandz for the kidz!

I swear, I halfway felt like crying. This is what they came up with? They used to be, well, good.

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[stevendj.livejournal.com]

They're closing 28 more stores, not 200.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

I misremembered the usenet post that said they were closing 28 stores in addition to the 200 they've already closed.

I finally spotted a typo in The Man Who Laughs, almost a third of the way through.

[stevendj.livejournal.com]

Whoops. The address for reporting typos is errata2010@pglaf.org.

I've found enough typos at the last minute to never have confidence that I've caught everything, but I do still hold vain ambitions for perfection. Although I am pretty satisfied with the job I did on The Man Who Laughs—I'm sure I caught almost all of the typos that were left in it after it came out of the proofing rounds.

If you're a third of the way through, you still have my favorite paragraph to look forward to, the one near the end of Book Eight which begins "I have told you you are cowards."

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Looking forward indeed. This is my first full re-read of the book, due to the fact I never see copies for sale. Well, there was one paperback that was a cruddy-looking facsimile of an old edition, and for that they wanted something like $40.