I don't know of one and hardcover books are on the list of unacceptable items for the recycling containers here.

I haven't actually thrown the trash out so I could tear all the pages out to put in recycling and just throw away the spines and covers.

Plus the cathartic fun of ripping stuff up.

There wasn't a recycling place nearby?

Hey, that's my line!

I haven't actually thrown the trash out so I could tear all the pages out to put in recycling and just throw away the spines and covers.

Yep, that would be the way to do it. (But honestly, I don't care. I think taking those things out of circulation was great, and I'm not sweating a half pound of paper.)

Normally, I object strongly making things by destroying books. However, crafts made from used Piers Anthony books have a certain appeal. [link] [link]

I told my father that I'd read the Hunger Games books, and he said, "Those are books for kids, right? But I guess Harry Potter books were books for kids, and I read those." I said, "No, they're really more for teenagers than for kids -- definitely for older kids than at least the first few Harry Potter books." He replied, "Oh, so they're like those vampire books, then?"

The Hunger Games Adobe epub versions are on sale at Kobo for $.87, $1.07, & $1.17! via dealnews: [link]

You have to place three separate orders, as each coupon is only good for one book, but there are three coupons, "hungergamesdeal" "hungergamesdeal2" and "hungergamesdeal3".

The SO has been talking about reading them, so I'm excited for him to have them in his favorite format.

Finished The Fault in Our Stars, and I'm so blown away, I think I hate John Green just a little bit (although I also need to go get everything he's ever written immediately). I did sob, probably as hard as I did with Mockingjay, although it was a different kind of tears. Loved Hazel and Augustus so much, and Isaac, too. Actually, loved everyone, the parents, Kaitlyn, even Van Houten in all his misery.

In a few days, I might be inclined to think Hazel and Gus are a little too Special Snowflake to be completely believable (Gus's vocabulary alone, and I credit Green's editor with letting him roll with it, since everyone I know gets a lot of "But would a teen say that?"), but then again, maybe not. It all *feels* so true, and so honest, and it really is much more about living than about dying.

I'm looking forward to reading that, Amy.

Does anyone here know if Jack Vance's short story "I'll Build Your Dream Castle," is reprinted anywhere? or if it's findable? I've tracked down some collections that republished it, but nothing nearby or in the local library.

"I'll Build Your Dream Castle,"

I bet Ginger has it!

The SF Main Public library used to have a short story index where you could track down what magazine it was originally published and which books it had been anthologized in.

Oh that sounds perfect, if distant.