I'm very happy to hear Magnatune's doing well. Why, just yesterday I downloaded a couple classical albums! Some of my most favorite albums I first heard on Magnatune over iTunes radio.

I worked in a bookstore for a year while in college and I've spent enough time in second-hand bookstores to say Orwell's hilariously spot on. I had a bazillion people hem and haw, only able to identify the color of a book's cover. A coworker told me of one old man, who spoke no English, trying desperately to draw the bar code of the book he was searching for. Someone really should do a full taxonomy of book store kooks. Obese obsessive with Ghallagher hair hunting books on commercial aircraft. Closeted gay white supremacist trying to find translated book by Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Outraged scold offended by Bridges of Madison County. Ha! I'm sure I'm even a subspecies of some type. Maybe I didn't work around books long enough, because I still love them. Like Lauren O, I too have a real fondness for unicolor library binding...