Barnes & Noble.com announced the finalists of  their annual Discover Awards.  The program also called, ‘Discover Great New Writers’ debuts the best in fiction and nonfiction and introduces the ‘best undiscovered writers’.   Thanks for Shelf-Awareness.com for making me aware of this!

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Have you seen the ‘Elf’ or specifically, the ‘Library Elf‘? He is not actually in your local library but is hanging out on the Internet. Elf is ‘your personal email library reminder service’. It works great and is very simple. Register with your name, an email address and create a […]

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Were you one of those that watched the Oscars? I watched the first hour or so and actually enjoyed it. Apparently though the viewership was way down. They’ve got to shorten that thing!
World Almanac’s Blog had a great movie related entry today! The entry is entitled, ‘A Visual History of Box […]

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Interested in blogging or already blogging? PROBLOGGER.net has some excellent advice to get you started and keep you going. I really love ‘A Tortoise’s Guide to Blogging‘. This article gives great advice and inspiration to post day after day. Here is an example under Rule 4 - Be Patient:
‘Building a […]

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Author and entrepreneur Steve Weber has written another outstanding book! The last one I read was about selling on Amazon and his latest is on selling on eBay. The first one is entitled, The Home-Based Bookstore: Start Your Own Business Selling Used Books on Amazon, eBay or Your Own Web Siteand this […]

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What exactly IS a ‘Tag Cloud’? Here is some explanation from Wikipedia…
“A tag cloud (or weighted list in visual design) is a visual depiction of user-generated tags used typically to describe the content of web sites. Tags are usually single words and are typically listed alphabetically, and the importance of a tag is […]

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GovSales.gov - Surplus Federal Assets (thanks to KimKomando.com for this recommendation)
Overstock.com. Jewelry Auctions, Coin Auctions …Online Auctions from Overstock.com. Bid now for the best live online auctions for Jewelry, Watches, Coins, Clothing, Antiques and Consumer Electronics.
uBid.com - Computers Auctions, Electronics …Bid on Auctions you can Trust at uBid. Top alternative to eBay. uBid stands […]

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My brother lives in Columbia S.C. and invited me to come down tomorrow to attend the S.C. Book Festival there.  It looks like it is going to be great!  I am really looking forward to it.   I will post an entry about my experience later!
Interested in finding ‘book sales’?  Check out Book Sale Finder .com!  […]

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The last time the postage rates went up and they introduced the ‘forever’ stamps I thought that was a little crazy. Perhaps it wasn’t! Well at least the rate is going up only a penny for a first class stamp. Looks like to me, the ease (and versatility) of email and even […]

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New & Used Textbooks @ Amazon.com
AbeBooks: New & Used Books, Textbooks, Rare & Out of Print Books
College Textbooks.com allows you to look up the book and see price comparisons.

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