We read _all_ the time -- and we rather like Amazon for their service. Their prices are _not_ always the least expensive, and we have techniques when price is the _only_ criterion, to find the _least expensive_ on the 'net. -- We're an 'Amazon Associate", and appreciate the chance to recommend their service.

There are a couple of negative Recommendations here -- but there are so many unworthy books we have bought over the years that we often ask the local library to order in a questionable one, and read it there. If it is worthwhile, we buy our own copy.

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To the right (if you are using a browser with Javascript enabled) is a random selection of the books from my personal library. Unfortunately it contains both books of merit, and less inspired writing. Addition to the enumeration is somewhat random (I converted my account at the Library Thing to a lifetime one, so that I am unconstrained as to what I can index. A full view of what I have decided to enter is available for those without Javascript, or wanting to see more deeply into my collection. I find it interesting to see the items 'shared' from least on up, as a proxy for merit, or perhaps just obscurity, of a given work.

... another benefit of the process of entering items, is that I have an occasion to decide to discard (through consignment back into the maw of the Amazon used pool) books I will never read again. If they are bad enough, I offer the item at a penny. The flip side of this of course is that I tend to BUY such from Amazon, treating the 'shipping tax' as really a proxy for not having to go to the local library and argue with the accessions manager about adding the item.