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[aamcnamara]

Pursuant to previous post: Oh! Aha. Hmm. Your comments are all both edifying and gracious, and I will have to read them again and think about this for a while. Many points that people made make a lot of sense.

I suspect that I have been greatly spoiled in the point of independent bookstores, growing up in Minneapolis (where there are a lot of independents, several of which I live near for various values of near) and then coming to college (where there is a pretty nice independent bookstore right across the street).

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Brain a bit scattered from midterms et cetera. Yesterday I skived off studying for an hour and a half after dinner, was an accomplice to filching a tray from the campus center, and went sledding on the big hill behind one of the dormitories. Today it rained, and I did a presentation and wrote a midterm.

Tomorrow they claim it will snow again, and maybe I will have collected enough bits of brain to work on the paper, essay, novel critiques that are due next week. And, oh, decide if I'm going to apply for that physics REU that takes freshman that I found online today and, if so, politely and awkwardly approach my professors after class to see if they will write me recommendations. Hurray.

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[aamcnamara.livejournal.com]

Huh. Like aliseadae I mostly do not browse books online--if I find something about a new book by an author I like, it's likely through LJ or my other online reading. Amazon recommendations are, to me, mostly just that it tells me a couple of books I've read already when I'm looking something up on their website.

So it is really interesting to hear how they can be used constructively--I won't start right this moment, since I'd probably have to input a lot of stuff at the beginning to make it give me interesting suggestions, but I will definitely think about it.