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Hmm. Gives me a good idea for CR 2012.
Yes. I think using constantreader.com makes the most sense and I would definitely want the stuff made on demand - I would not be psyched to have a garage full of constant reader tote bags!I will talk to him this week about it and report back.
Sherry,I just emailed you photos from San Francisco 2006 and Asheville 2007.
I forgot where that came from, Steve. Thanks, Jane. I appreciate them, especially the Asheville ones.
Steve wrote: "Yes, it is a brilliant idea. And Sherry, whoever it was that thought of that title "Doyenne" for you is a brilliant person."Steve,
I think Sherry thought of that title herself. We already knew that she is a brilliant person.
I've received six of the ten promised checks. Thanks so much. And coming soon, all new (old) discussions. Allen has sent me some files of discussions that were never archived before. One was even before I came to Constant Reader, at least I have no memory of it (which doesn't prove a thing).
Ack, Sherry, I have a sticky note right here on the edge of my desk. It says "Sherry $15." I'll get on it.
Sherry -- I just haven't put the check into the envelope and addressed it -- but it's coming.
http://flavorwire.com/241427/gifts-fo...I hope the above link works. A lot of cute and clever gifts for book lovers.
Yes, it worked. Those are great gifts , loved the bookcase necklace, rhino head, and the magnifier.
Wonderful. The Out of Print site has some great things: shirts, tees, bags, journals.
I bought myself this Out of Print Clockwork Orange bookbag at Queen Anne books. Not that I actually need another bag, but it spoke my name right across the shop and insisted on coming home with me.http://shop.outofprintclothing.com/Pr...
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Sara wrote: "Wonderful. The Out of Print site has some great things: shirts, tees, bags, journals."Oooh. I love that stuff.
Thanks for these great shopping sites. I've bookmarked them for future use. I better not go back right now or I'll find something for me!
Hey, everyone -- did anything happen when I was out?Since I have every note posted in the Prodigy CR from April 1994 onwards, I can tell you what year any discussion dates from. The E.B. White thread, for example, is from April 1997. Also, if anyone recalls a discussion from those olden times that they remember, but that was never put into its own file (only discussions that were about books on the "official" list received that treatment) let me know and I'll do my best to find them.
I think I'm going to invent a time machine so I can go back to October and attend the NY get-together, seeing that you had such a good time. (I'm a little disappointed that no one made any videos of the goings-on; do I have to do everything around here?) I'm telling you now, though, to count on me for Pittsburgh -- no way am I missing two of these in a row!
You really missed a good one, Allen. See what you get for not coming? When we left Prodigy (or when Prodigy left us) did you copy any of those files? I have a few. And do you have any in between the time of 2007 when Tonya stopped archiving on WebBoard? I think Tonya may have some unformatted ones.
Sherry, I have nothing at all from the post-Prodigy era. My archive consists of downloads for each month of posts from the Books BB from April 1994 to April 1998. Nothing from Classics Corner or the P* CR Salon topic, either. This is where my being such a stick-in-the-mud about keeping to the subject has come back to haunt me; I would really like to see those old Salon posts, since to some extent they represent a diary of the social side of CR. Well...when I get that time machine in working order I'll take care of this, too.
Okay -- in this search for archive material, my fervent wish is that there are saved threads -- two threads from the Job discussion and a thread on the J.B. discussion (or maybe it's two for J.B. and one for Job). Either way that dual discussion was a true gem in my memory of great Constant Reader discussions. I am hoping someone has saved those threads and have always kicked myself that I didn't save them myself. I don't recall exactly when this gem occurred though.
I am confused Dottie, are you talking about the Book of Job in the Bible, and what is the J.B. discussion. Sorry to be such a nitwit.
Kitty wrote: "I am confused Dottie, are you talking about the Book of Job in the Bible, and what is the J.B. discussion. Sorry to be such a nitwit."J.B. We paired it with Job on Classics Corner and had almost simultaneous discussions.
Dottie, if nobody saved Classics Corner, and I don't think they did, the Job discussion has vanished.
Allen, I am so happy that you will be coming to Pittsburgh!
Sorry -- I should have linked J.B. and been clearer on the overall post, Kitty! I know classics corner discussions are generally left to float away but just hoped someone might have saved that one -- and thought I'd at least put the idea out there, Ruth. Seems a shame that with some of those dual discussions only one aspect was archived because we had some very good pairs of books and great discussions.
Allen wrote: "Hey, everyone -- did anything happen when I was out?Since I have every note posted in the Prodigy CR from April 1994 onwards, I can tell you what year any discussion dates from. The E.B. White th..."
Allen,
We really needed you to be there at the convention to take videos and to add your wit. You would have loved our time at the Algonquin.
Allen, I can always add videos to the constantreader.com site (I think). My camera doesn't take them, but my iPhone does. I keep forgetting that.
Sherry -- wasn't the discussion on Arcadia by Tom Stoppard among the archives? I thought it was on the other site so hope you have it, too. Should I check with Allen to see whether he has it? Maybe he could even come up with the dual Job/J.B. discussion threads -- couldn't hurt to check with him, right?
Dottie wrote: "Sherry -- wasn't the discussion on Arcadia by Tom Stoppard among the archives? I thought it was on the other site so hope you have it, too. Should I check with ?llen to see whether he has it? Ma..."Sorry, Dottie. It's not there. I've already checked with him about Classics discussions and he didn't keep any of those. The Arcadia discussion might have been on Prodigy toward to end, so I'll ask Allen about it later. He has sent me some, but maybe he can ferret out others. If not, it might have been in that limbo period where we were trying to find a home, before Goodreads but after Prodigy. I saved some of those discussions, but not all.
Sherry,We read Arcadia on the regular list, so Allen may have it. I don't usually read the Classics selection, so that is how I know which list it was on. I loved Arcadia.
I'll ask him. It wasn't on the list he sent to me. I may need to be reminded, since I'm in Key West right now and not on my regular computer.
Sorry, the Arcadia discussion is not in the archives. I have no memory of the title at all, so I suspect it must have been talked about in the post-Prodigy era (Prodigy: 5 years, post-Prodigy: 13 years!). I wish I could do better for you, by all means keep asking if there's anything from that time you'd like to see again.
Sherry -- your link and mine in our reviews of Arcadia go to the discussion of the play so you can get it for the new archives -- just went searching and found out that after a short delay the discussion actually did come up. If I were more computer literate I could maybe grab it for you but don't really know what Id have to do -- I can try saving the whole discussion webpage -- will that do it?Thanks everyone! Allen -- you missed some great ones in our interim wandering about the internet in the years between Prodigy and Goodreads -- nice to have you here more often! And thank you again for getting this group going long ago.
Thanks, Dottie, for getting me to notice that a discussion that I thought I had already dealt with was indeed undealt with. The Arcadia discussion is now on our constantreader.com website. I have almost finished. I'm doing them alphabetically by title, and I'm up to the "S's" now. Then there are a few that weren't on our old archives that I will be putting up, including some that I had on my computer before we came here, and some that Allen had from long ago.
Thanks, Sherry, for doing all this work. It must be a time-consuming task.
Ruth wrote: "Thanks, Sherry, for doing all this work. It must be a time-consuming task."DITTO on that, Sherry. Just a thought -- you might want to hit the WayBack link and search out any archived discussions that have slipped through the cracks somehow while it is letting us in -- who knows how long that will last. I assumed the wayback link wouldn't work but found out it did at least at the moment.
Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. And you're welcome, Ruth and Dottie. I do it for myself as much as anything.
ETA: I forgot to include the link!
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