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The BookThinker Newsletter
ISSN 1547-9501

#11, 2 February 2004

BookThinker Update
9 February 2004>>>

Stolen Any Good Books Lately? Moral Clarity at the FOL Sale What's that? You pay for all your books? It doesn't matter! You're still a thief. Find out why in today's BookThinker Update.

From the Editor
Introductory remarks for BookThinker readers.

Familiar Strangers Taking Book Buying to the Top Contributing Editor Pamela Palmer explores the use of libraries for first edition identification in today’s BookThinker. In addition she explains the use of other library resources for identifying publications that may not otherwise be known to exist – a key to building a productive, inventory-producing wants list

Previous BookThinker Update - BookThinker Update 26 January 2004>>> Big Dumb Objects The Art of the Artifact in Science Fiction If you don't know what a BDO is, here are three clues: it's big; it's dumb; and it's an object - and what's more, Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey would have been a non-story without one. In today's BookThinker Update, Tim Doyle explores the use of the BDO in the Science Fiction genre.