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Re:Why We Love Email from Amazon and Hate Email from Barnes ... by tx on Saturday June 14, 2008 @10:03PM (#217835)
Agreed. Amazon rocks. But I'd recommend that guy to change his habits though: classical music is better for you than junk common sense literature. I haven't read all of those books, but some. Maybe others are better, but I doubt it. When Peter Norvig joked at startup school about lack of substance in these "economics for masses" books, the audience audibly agreed.
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Re:Why We Love Email from Amazon and Hate Email from Barnes ... by redorb on Saturday June 14, 2008 @10:53PM (#217860)
I don't know if you should judge another's reading selection.
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Re:Why We Love Email from Amazon and Hate Email from Barnes ... by nazgulnarsil on Sunday June 15, 2008 @02:19AM (#217942)
sure you should, watch this.

Adults who list "Harry Potter" among their top books are morons.

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Re:Why We Love Email from Amazon and Hate Email from Barnes ... by mleonhard on Sunday June 15, 2008 @04:58AM (#217980)
What if they list Tolkien books or have a forum nick from Lord of the Rings? By the way, 'Nazgul' and 'Narsil' aren't two words that would normally go together.
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Re:Why We Love Email from Amazon and Hate Email from Barnes ... by jraines on Sunday June 15, 2008 @02:14PM (#218144)
(LoTR > Harry Potter) x infinity
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Re:Why We Love Email from Amazon and Hate Email from Barnes ... by smanek on Sunday June 15, 2008 @02:32AM (#217946)
and those that list knuth or shakespeare are trying too hard ;-)

this is fun! you may not be able to judge a book by its cover, but I bet you can judge a person by their books (in a 'sufficient but not necessary' sense.)

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Re:Why We Love Email from Amazon and Hate Email from Barnes ... by nazgulnarsil on Sunday June 15, 2008 @04:28PM (#218189)
which is why I wanted to make a dating site based on how closely related two people's book collections are.

librarything seems to be getting it right.

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Re:Why We Love Email from Amazon and Hate Email from Barnes ... by danohuiginn on Sunday June 15, 2008 @07:56AM (#218010)
But this is where online retailers have a massive advantage. Amazon knows what we really buy, not just the stuff we like to brag about. Even around here, I bet people have bought more 'how to get rich' junk - let along Grisham and Clancy - than they have hardcore CS texts.
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Re:Why We Love Email from Amazon and Hate Email from Barnes ... by danohuiginn on Sunday June 15, 2008 @08:01AM (#218011)
come to think of it, maybe that's the B&N strategy: appeal to the snob inside us. Tell us "you may just be buying thrillers and porn, but we know that you're an opera-lover deep down".

I'm not saying it's a good strategy, mind...

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