Enemy of Entropy

Book Joy! And Stuff

29 March 2008, 10:32 pm. 1 Comment. Filed under Art, Health, Reading.

I’m so tick­led! In the last two weeks, I’ve found not one, but two books that Sam and I have wanted for ages at good prices on eBay!

Seeing Red
First, I’ve been look­ing for
See­ing Red: The Rap­ture of Red­heads by Howard Schatz for years and years. Seri­ously, it has to be at least five years since Sam first men­tioned that he’d love to have it. Unfor­tu­nately, it’s out of print, and the only thing I found for the longest time were used copies for $150 or more. It’s a gor­geous book, but that’s far more than I could pay for it.

I had the book on my wish list at Half​.com, which is part of eBay, but for some rea­son I also set up an eBay search a few months back, and finally got found a copy going for $35.1 I didn’t hap­pen to see the email until a day later, and by then the seller had dropped the price fur­ther for some rea­son. It was more than I pay for most books, but after five years, it was more than worth it. We received it in the mail ear­lier this week, and it is just a beau­ti­ful as any new copy.

Your Guide to Metabolic Health
That gave me an idea, so I set up a search for another book I’ve wanted for a while, but couldn’t afford. John C. Lowe’s tome Your Guide to Meta­bolic Health came out in 2003, and I haven’t ever found it in stock any­where. It must have gone out of stock quickly, because Ama­zon has only ever had used copies that I’ve seen. And again, they were always pricey — $180 was the price I’d seen most recently.2

Today, eBay came through again! The “buy it now” price was very rea­son­able, so Sam encour­aged me to go ahead and get it instead of chanc­ing the auc­tion route.

Dr. Lowe has also writ­ten another book that’s specif­i­cally about the meta­bolic treat­ment of fibromyal­gia, but it runs over $500. Appar­ently, that one is intended for physi­cians, rather than laypeo­ple. I have an eBay search going, but I’m fairly cer­tain the book I bought today has the infor­ma­tion I need in it. From what I’ve heard, it’s mainly about fibromyal­gia and chronic fatigue syn­drome.3

Keep Working Girlfriend
I’m busily read­ing my ARC of Women, Work and Autoim­mune Dis­ease: Keep Work­ing, Girl­friend! It’s good stuff.

1 For what it’s worth, Half​.com still shows only the higher prices. Weird.

2 It’s avail­able more cheaply now, but I still got a deal.

3 Aha — the pub­lisher actu­ally sells the lat­est ver­sion of that one for $99.95. Why would any­body pay the used price? Why do the used sell­ers think they can demand so much?

1 Comment »

  1. avatar HopeEvey. 6 April 2008, 11:29 am

    Used sell­ers are prob­a­bly demand­ing that much because there are peo­ple will­ing to pay that much.

    Yay for long-​​wanted books!!

 

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