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Posted by janey, Thu Aug-17-00 02:17 PM
While I think your suggestion is a good one to make things easier for people, please don't use amazon if you can help it.

Amazon is not community based. It's not interested in literacy. Independent bookstores are the backbone of cultural literacy in every community.

If you want to order books on the internet because it's a lot simpler, please try www.abebooks.com first. It's a consortium of independent used bookstores, so your book will usually be a LOT less expensive than buying a new copy, and using abebooks.com supports the "little" guy, rather than a massive corporate structure that doesn't exist in the real world.

Thanks for listening.

Peace.