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Old 06-30-2015, 09:04 AM   #101
eschwartz
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The fishy part is your willful attempt to spin what I said into a different narrative. It might be clever in an 8th grade debate, but who are the judges that you are trying to score points with? Constantly misinterpreting what I say in an attempt to show me up is pretty immature.
That first sentence is just me being humorous at your expense.

My real issue came in the rest of my post, where I complained that you waste peoples' time by saying things you know aren't true, whereby they explain the truth to you, and you say the equivalent of "oh yeah, I knew that already but I was being inscrutable/obtuse".

I might as well skip over all your posts, if you are going to be in the habit of not meaning anything you say...




Unless you have some alternative explanation for:

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Amazon isn't horrible/terrible, but they could be so much more. How hard would it be to have a database of authors that I want to be notified every time a new kindle ebook becomes available? Automatically add any author that I buy one of their books, but let me add and remove authors from the list. It doesn't even have to be real time. They already have most of the information, it really would be all that hard to do.
And the about-face:
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Yea, I remember when they first put it in and I signed up for a number of authors. A pity it didn't seem to work correctly. I think that I've gotten one or two notices over the years. Yep, just double checked. I'm following Stephen W. Sears and was not notified when The Landscape Turned Red hit the Kindle store. Fortunately, Authoralerts _did_ notify me.
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