The Playful Antiquarian

A confession, or why Amazon’s new feature is bad for poets

October 28th, 2003

Before the end of this week, I must buy several volumes of poetry, preferably from a local independent bookseller. Why? As atonement for the fact that in the past few days I have read an entire 700 page anthology of poetry and several smaller poetry collections using the new Amazon full-text search feature.This does not seem right at all. But, I suppose in publishing (and apparently, in setting up copyright protection measures) no one thinks about poets. It sort of makes me reconsider my plan to get my act together and try to get published. But, then again, I never had the misconception that it would be possible to make a living as a poet anyhow.

While I am making Amazon confessions, I must also admit that I looked up pumpkin pie recipes, but I felt too guilty to actually use any of the recipes to make a pumpkin pie. Nonetheless, I should probably add a couple of cookbooks to my book shopping list as well.

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