Sunday, June 29, 2008

spell check

ok, so.....i have a hankering to read a book i have blogged about before.....one of the few novels my grandmother c. kept at her house....i read it over at least one of my yearly solo summer visits to her farm....i have no idea which of my cousins was lucky enough to have gotten this book when she died.....i recalled it as a girl of the linderlost....and recently when i decided to do a google search so that i could buy a copy for myself......maybe even a similar volume published in 1909 rather than a newer version......but my google search came back fruitless......except for my original blog about the book...which meant that i had the title wrong.....how does one find a title when one does nto know the correct title?......this morning there was an email from alibris books in my junk folder...surely they would have a line on this classic tale.....they had no girl of the linderlost........ what they did have was a girl of the limberlost...what a difference a single letter can make with insensitive search engines.....alibris does have several original copies...some in better condition than others.....eureka...

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