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[mousme]

Turns out that poking around Amazon at 03:00 is a dangerous thing. I've created two new wish lists, and keep refreshing the "recommendations" page.

I'll just note for the record that I use my amazon.ca wish lists as a kind of log for myself of the books I should look out for and eventually pick up, and not for anything else, really. Most of the time I prefer to pick up a book physically before I buy it, especially if it's one with which I'm not familiar. I like to leaf through it, and check it over to see if it really is what I'm looking for.

I've managed, just tonight, to create about three or four new wish lists. Some of it is for research on novels that I will likely never write.

*sigh*

I guess it helps pass the time.

Comments

[fearsclave.livejournal.com]

I think my wish list and purchasing patterns must either be breaking the Amazon's recommendations algorithm or sending up flashing red alerts at some law enforcement agency :). When it starts reccing books on Wicca next to books on room clearing tactics next to tomes on organic gardening...

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Dude, you should see the wacky recommendations poor Amazon tries to come up with for me.

Here are the topics which I've got (not comprehensive and in no particular order):

-Quakerism
-Sci Fi & Fantasy novels
-Gardening
-Victorian & Edwardian Costuming
-Sustainable & Off-grid living
-Mystery novels
-World War I
-Animal Husbandry
-Modern & Classical Poetry
-Swans
-Mythology
-"Classic" novels
-YA Literature

They don't know what to recommend for me anymore. It's very funny. :D

[owldaughter.livejournal.com]

I have... six wish lists. Organized kind of like yours. General research, spiritual stuff, research for specific books I'm writing/will write, a list to check before I got to library (as in "read but don't buy")... yeah.

I like seeing what oddness Amazon recommends for me as well. Because my tastes are, erm... eclectic, too.