So, that Oprah hasn't happened yet?
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
You know, I don't know. Guess I should check.
The problem with Amazon delivery, even if it happens on the 21st, is that it happens at 2 p.m. in the afternoon -- and I can go down to Target at 8 a.m., get a copy for the same price and start reading!
Yeah - I've cancelled my HP pre-order. Partly because won't be living here, but partly because when book 6 came out, I was in Meijer at 5am and there was the book. Had to wait til 2 to get mine. This time, I'll be in Michigan and not above camping out at Meijer for it.
When HBP came out, USPS delivered my copy from Amazon at about 9:00 am. With Deathly Hallows, though, if I do get accepted into the MLS program I applied to (the damn letter is supposed to show up some time this week!), I'll be in Champaign for Library Boot Camp when the book comes out, so I'll have to wait to get it until afterwards (if I get it at the Borders/B&N in Champaign, I'll end up reading it instead of doing the schoolwork I have to, so I'll just wait).
I pre-ordered from Barnes & Noble, so I'll probably just show up there early that day, get a latte and the book.
I gave up pre-ordering after GoF came out when I realized that no bookstore on the planet was ever going to run out of copies of any HP book as long as they were in print.
This is true too, Jessica.
The problem with Amazon delivery, even if it happens on the 21st, is that it happens at 2 p.m. in the afternoon -- and I can go down to Target at 8 a.m., get a copy for the same price and start reading!
Or a bookstore that has an event the evening before, and starts selling the books at midnight.
See, but I can't because then I'd have to camp out at the store until the buses started the next night.