{"id":10622,"date":"2007-09-20T10:52:01","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T14:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2007\/09\/20\/10622.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:56:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:56:58","slug":"book-report-longshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2007\/09\/20\/book-report-longshot\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Longshot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So. Y’all know that I prefer not to link to Amazon, mostly because I’m pretentious, but also because I think Amazon is evil, and I’d prefer not to encourage Gentle Readers to purchase books from them. When I can, I’ll link to the publisher’s page, because, you know, they’re the publisher<\/I>, and deserve some credit for publishing the book. On the other hand, I don’t necessarily think y’all should buy the book directly from the publisher. Sometimes that’s a good idea, sometimes it isn’t. I’d prefer that than Amazon, but buying from a local seller would be fine, too, as would buying a used copy through one of the various brokers. Or not buying it at all; borrowing from a library, or a friend, or through one of the book-swapping brokers would be just fine.\nGentle Readers are free to do what they want, of course, but as I do<\/I> have some preferences, I try to indicate what they are, and after that, you are on your own. So I link to the publisher, when I can.\nBut what do I do when I can’t? When the publisher doesn’t have a linkable page for the book, or when the book is out of print and there is no publisher? For the last few years, I’ve been making it up as I go along. Perhaps it’s time to make a policy, and to do so, I am asking your advice. It seems to me there are a few ways to go.\n