The Amazon.com conflict

It used to be that I had to get my ass off the sofa and actually venture out to the bookshops for my vice but Amazon makes it too easy to find everything I'm looking for and a whole lot of other stuff that I hadn't thought of before. Jarkko and I now have nearly every flat surface in the house piled with books and eye each other suspiciously when we hear the too familiar screeching of the UPS truck arriving at our front door to deliver even more books.

I try not to shop for more books these days but Amazon is a cruel mistress, taunting me with new selections it knows I won't resist like Elvis Costello's new album When I Was Cruel, What Just Happened: A Chronicle From the Electronic Frontier, The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business and Society and A Brief History of the Future since I have a taste for tormented English musicians and the history of technology.

I think we need a house where all the walls are covered in bookshelves :)