Extremely small world syndrome, eh? Seems distinctly unlikely that this post
from last month would manage to catch my eye... I should be writing some
email to an old friend, but it's such a difficult matter that I'm stalling
to the point of looking here. Good friend and former employer, but sometimes
those mixed news things are very difficult...

As regards the books, they're getting distributed among two local libraries
and a local friend. However, in cleaning up this afternoon, I did stumble
across one particular book that indirectly reminded me of this newsgroup, in
terms of unneeded books... No, I'm not trying to be insulting or anything,
but the following is an accurate description of the situation. This
particular book is *SO* bad that I *REALLY* don't know what to do with it. I
wouldn't have believed I could have finished reading it if I didn't know how
stubborn I can be... It bothers me to an extreme degree to think that
someone else might suffer through the tediousness of reading it. I would
hate to have any responsibility for such an affliction. It's so bad that you
want to believe the author's identity (Uris) has been taken over by a
tedious impostor of some sort. It's so bad it makes me wish I had a wood
burning stove and needed the fuel, no matter how much I'm bothered by the
notion of book burning... I wish I had an uneven table that needed a book
propped under the short leg for the next few decades. I really thought I'd
gotten rid of it months or years ago, and almost blissfully forgotten it.
Seeing it again brings back all the awful memories. Quite probably this is
the *VERY* worst book of the 2,372 books on my list... I'd be afraid to give
it to my worst enemy for fear of dreadful revenge. In a circulating library?
What a terrible thought. A used bookstore? Heavens to Murgatroyd. This one
remains a quandary.

Anyway, that topic now reminds me to note that "The Blue Parrot" used
bookstore (for English books) has opened a new branch location in Akihabara.
On the west side of the main drag as you're going north, about 150 meters
before the Ginza Line subway station. Suehiromachi Station? Already forgot
the reading, but one up from Kanda. They have a sign on the street, but the
bookstore is high up in the building. I sometimes pick up a couple of
100-yen train-time-killers there. Sort of amusing side-note is that they
have an entire large section of 100-yen computer books that were originally
in the 5,000-yen price range. The life of a computer book is especially
brief...

Declan Murphy wrote:
> Declan Murphy wrote:
>
>>  ><old stuff snip>
>>  >>Put them in a box and send them to me. A bit of googling will get
>>  >>you my postal address. I'll put them in the Yamasa library and
>>  >>promise that none will be sold or pulped.
>>  >>
>>  >>Only condition is that you do not pop down for a visit.
>>  >
>>  >What a charming way to make friends and encourage someone to invest
>>  >in the postage. Not.
>>
>> I just don't want to catch whatever it is you appear to have.
>> Quarantine yunno.
>>
>>  >Perhaps I will anyway.
>>
>> As promised, none shall be sold or pulped. A deadtree book is a
>> sacred thing.
>
> Nothing in my mailbag, so I guess you've decided not to donate the
> books then?