Yes, I understand why they don't have most of the books I'm looking for. It isn't the first time I've been an early adopter, either, so I'm used to having a Wonderful Tool I can't use for much. I want this great idea to succeed, and I'd like to be able to use it for most of my reading. In order for it to succeed with book buyers like myself, they need a better mechanism for making content available.
Mark Doty's poems came across fine, and so do the poems in that John Lithgow-edited anthology; I don't think it's text control that's the problem. I suspect it's more that poetry is published by small publishing houses in university utility rooms by people who do seven other things full-time.
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