A Note on Criteria
An ‘out of print’ title means, for the
hard of thinking, one no longer in print from an existing publisher. The title
must not be available to purchase brand new online or in a bookstore.
Titles featured on this blog might be available as used copies
online, either cheaply (£0.01p on Amazon), or exorbitantly (£50+ on
Abe), and I will make further exceptions for certain books such as
those reissued at expensive prices as print-on-demand books (which
means the novel is ‘in print’, although at such a cost that the
book will not find a new audience, or is merchandise from an unscrupulous publisher
exploiting Joes like me), and other exceptions as they arise, as is
my wont. If you have any complaints about ad hoc exceptions ruining
the purity of this blog, then I encourage polite complaints to the
email address featured on the main page. I do not own copies of all
the books covered in this blog—a large percentage of those read
will have been from public, national, or university libraries, or
borrowed from plush friends. I am, however, a collector of
out-of-print books, so I will be fixing this gulf in the near future,
to the detriment of my accountant, and malnourished tortoise.* Thank
you for reading.
* No tortoise was starved in the
writing of this blog.
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