Talk about some bookselling irony: Goliath helping out little Davy (or Larry, in actuality).
Days have been spent repairing the damage from the Java Incident (deleting Java from the computers on the network at the urgent advice of Homeland Security, just days before Oracle issued a security patch to fix the problem). The system isn’t fully restored yet, but I am slightly encouraged, enough that I could take a break from wearing the repairman hat.
During that lull in the frustrating action, I was finally able to reconnect to the internet. Ha! Naturally, I checked email, and as a result, got a little smile-provider. The book behemoth Amazon had sent me a message (I don’t recall ever getting a random sales pitch before). It wasn’t so much the idea of Amazon doing direct mail that made me grin, it was the content.
You can click on the image to see why I smiled.
Along with other companies like Google, who are archiving all of my internet interests and activities, Amazon perceived that I like History, and decided to recommend some book titles. It pleased me to note that two of the three top books listed as being of possible interest to me, were my own titles.
Maybe I’ll buy one.