Thane Rosenbaum discusses the difference between a novel and a screenplay. Now you’ll realize that the people that like a book better than the corresponding film are the ones with the fertile imaginations and the penchants for complex psychologies. But you knew that already.

Joe “Crazy Like an Idahoan” “Brodie” Brodersen has developed a VB.NET script to use one of those nasty little cueCats to read your books’ barcodes and fetch the metadata from Amazon to store in an Access database. I bet he’d sell you a version that worked with LibraryThing .

Last night was much better, but there is still much ahead. Thank you for your prayers. Thank you especially to my parents and grandparents for their assistance with Evelyn and meals.

Evelyn is very ill and distraught, and so are we. Please pray that we’d recover quickly.