Happy bookish birthdays (31 January) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (31 January) to…

• Zane Grey (Riders of the Purple Sage) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• John O’Hara (Butterfield 8) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Norman Mailer (The Executioner’s Song) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Denise Fleming (In the Tall, Tall Grass) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Alan Lomax (The Land Where the Blues Began) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Thomas Merton (The Seven Storey Mountain) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Gene DeWeese (The Calvin Nullifier) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Gerald McDermott (Anansi the Spider) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Daniel Tammet (Born on a Blue Day) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Rynn Berry (Famous Vegetarians and Their Favorite Recipes) (at AmazonSmile*)

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Bufo’s Alexa Skills

* I am linking to the same thing at the regular Amazon site, and at AmazonSmile. When you shop at AmazonSmile, half a percent of your purchase price on eligible items goes to a non-profit you choose. It will feel just like shopping at Amazon: you’ll be using your same account. The one thing for you that is different is that you pick a non-profit the first time you go (which you can change whenever you want)…and the good feeling you’ll get. 

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Happy bookish birthdays (30 January) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (30 January) to…

• Barbara W. Tuchman (The Guns of August) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Lloyd Alexander (The Chronicles of Prydain series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Shirley Hazzard (The Great Fire) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Gregory Benford (Timescape) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Michael Dorris (The Broken Cord) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Richard Brautigan (Trout Fishing in America) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Gelett Burgess (the Goops series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Walter Savage Landor (Imaginary Conversations) (at AmazonSmile*)

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#WDYTWed: last week’s results & alphabetical author bingo

#WDYTWed: last week’s results & alphabetical author bingo

In the more than ten years that I’ve been writing this blog (the first post was August 28, 2009), one of my favorite things has been interacting with the readers.

That used to happen a lot more. When I started out, I averaged 1,000 new words a day, but in more recent times, I just haven’t been able to do that. I’ve been trying to write more narratives again, but without that, the blog doesn’t tend to provoke many comments…and I miss that. I think my long time readers do, too.

One of those long time readers and amongst my most frequent commenters is Lady Galaxy, who suggested that I write something once a week with the intent of increasing interaction.

It’s a good idea. 🙂

I think the best way to do that is to do one or more polls (which I’ve done throughout the past decade).

I’ve decided to name this series #WDYTWed. WDYT is an internet abbreviation for “What Do You Think?”, and I’m going to do them on Wednesdays. Hopefully, just about every Wednesday…although I missed some recently due (at least in part) to the holidays

I haven’t been talking about the results much, but last week’s really interested me!

Compare the number of p-books in your home now to ten years ago…

• I have fewer p-books now than ten years ago 75%
• I have more p-books now than ten years ago 10.71%
• It’s about the same 10.71%
• Other: 3.57%
• I don’t know 0%

For format, I commonly read

• Just e-books 61.54%
• Both 23.08%
• Other: 15.38%
• Just p-books 0%
• I don’t read 0%
• I read some other way (audiobooks, for example) 0%

I also did one on how old the oldest p-book in your home was…and 22.22% said they had one more than 100 years old!

So, what intrigued me? These results are what people might have predicted for e-books…oh, maybe 5 years ago. Massive reductions in the number of p-books in the home, and more than half of respondents reading just e-books (and nearly 85% reading some e-books). Of course, my sample will be skewed, but still…maybe e-books have been quietly gaining more market share.

So, this week…

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Happy bookish birthdays (29 January) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (29 January) to…

• Edward Abbey (The Monkey Wrench Gang) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Germaine Greer (The Female Eunuch) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Paddy Chayefsky (Altered States) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Rosemary Wells (Max and Ruby series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Romain Rolland (Jean-Christophe) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Muna Lee (Pioneers of Puerto Rico) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Bill Peet (Capyboppy) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Katharine Ross (The Fuzzytail Friends’ Great Egg Hunt) (at AmazonSmile*)

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Happy bookish birthdays (28 January) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (28 January) to…

• Colette (The Vagabond) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Vera Williams (A Chair for My Mother) (at AmazonSmile*)
• David Lodge (the Campus Trilogy) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Rick Warren (The Purpose Driven Life) (at AmazonSmile*)
• John Barclay (Argenis) (at AmazonSmile*)
• John Perkins (Confessions of an Economic Hit Man) (at AmazonSmile*)

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Happy bookish birthdays (27 January) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (27 January) to…

• Lewis Carroll (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Patton Oswalt (Silver Screen Fiend) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Jules Archer (The Plot to Seize the White House) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Mordecai Richler (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz) (at AmazonSmile*)
• James Grippando (Jack Swytek series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Phlip Sugden (The Complete History of Jack the Ripper) (at AmazonSmile*)

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Bufo’s Alexa Skills

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Happy bookish birthdays (26 January) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (26 January) to…

• Philip José Farmer (Riverworld) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Hans Holzer (Ghost Hunter) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Jonathan Carroll (The Land of Laughs) (at AmazonSmile*)

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* I am linking to the same thing at the regular Amazon site, and at AmazonSmile. When you shop at AmazonSmile, half a percent of your purchase price on eligible items goes to a non-profit you choose. It will feel just like shopping at Amazon: you’ll be using your same account. The one thing for you that is different is that you pick a non-profit the first time you go (which you can change whenever you want)…and the good feeling you’ll get. 

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Happy bookish birthdays (25 January) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (25 January) to…

• W. Somerset Maugham (The Razor’s Edge) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Virginia Woolf (Mrs. Dalloway) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Gloria Naylor (The Women of Brewster Place) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Margery Sharp (The Rescuers) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower) (at AmazonSmile*)

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Happy bookish birthdays (24 January) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (24 January) to…

• Edith Wharton (The House of Mirth) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• E.T.A. Hoffmann (The Nutcracker and the Mouse King) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Vicki Baum (Grand Hotel) (at AmazonSmile*)
• C.L Moore (The Twonky) (at AmazonSmile*))
• Martin Lings (Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Charles Boardman Hawes (The Dark Frigate) (at AmazonSmile*)

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Bufo’s Alexa Skills

* I am linking to the same thing at the regular Amazon site, and at AmazonSmile. When you shop at AmazonSmile, half a percent of your purchase price on eligible items goes to a non-profit you choose. It will feel just like shopping at Amazon: you’ll be using your same account. The one thing for you that is different is that you pick a non-profit the first time you go (which you can change whenever you want)…and the good feeling you’ll get. 

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Happy bookish birthdays (23 January) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (23 January) to…

• Stendahl (The Red and the Black) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Walter M. Miller Jr. (A Canticle for Leibowitz) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Elvira Lindo (Manolito Gafotas) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Camilla Collett (The District Governor’s Daughters) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Tom Reamy (Blind Voices) (at AmazonSmile*)

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Bufo’s Alexa Skills

* I am linking to the same thing at the regular Amazon site, and at AmazonSmile. When you shop at AmazonSmile, half a percent of your purchase price on eligible items goes to a non-profit you choose. It will feel just like shopping at Amazon: you’ll be using your same account. The one thing for you that is different is that you pick a non-profit the first time you go (which you can change whenever you want)…and the good feeling you’ll get. 

Shop ’til you help! 

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