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brooksmoses and I went for lunch in Mountain View today, followed by a trip around both the new and the second-hand bookstores, in which we were good and did not buy more books than our respective spouses' tolerance limits. Rather odd conversation with the sales clerk in the new bookshop, in which I was outed as a romance writer, but redeemed myself by explaining that I'm a science fiction fan. And then casually dropped my monthly royalty payment into the conversation as a not particularly subtle way of saying, "No, I am not a PA author."

While in there we noted that autopope has most of a shelf to himself in the paperback section, with several faceouts, and two different books in the section for new sf hardbacks. When we went next door to the used bookshop, we found Accelerando, which was the first time either of us had seen any of his books in there. We're not quite sure what it was doing in the romance section though.

It was the first time I'd had the chance to use my PalmThing -- a download of my LibraryThing catalogue onto my Palm IIIxe. It's an easy way to carry a list of the books in my library so that I don't end up buying duplicate books, and I used it several times to check whether or not I already had something. Very useful indeed. It's an open source widget developed by one of the LibraryThingers and running on PalmOS 3.0 and above, so you can use it even on pretty old models of Palm that can be picked up for a few dollars on ebay.
http://www.librarything.com/groups/palmthingforlibraryt
http://home.comcast.net/~mmcm/palmthing/readme.html

Friday 2000 words, Saturday 1100, Sunday 1500, today 800, taking the total past 50,000.