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Strange Little Online Stores

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

I was surfing the web and came across a curious collection of little stores…the ecrater stores.

One of them was yearbooks.ecrater.com. Boy, talk about a specialized bookstore! All they sell is high school and college yearbooks, alumni directories, football programs and the like.

Another was MakeMoneyOnline.ecrater.com. They have a book on how to sell on eBay and Amazon, as well as how to set up your own online store and sell direct to buyers.

The last was downloads.ecrater.com. The site says they have Music, Video, Movies, Games, Software to download, but I couldn’t actually find much worth downloading. Maybe they are new.

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Operation Paperback, A Good Use for Old Books

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Speaking of books, the other day I learned about a worthwhile non-profit group. It is called Operation Paperback.

They encourage people to mail used books to troops overseas. Apparently almost any kind of book is wanted, except romance novels and salacious materials.

They say you can send boxes of books at the cheap “book rate” from the US to US military personnel all over the world, and you only pay the domestic postage rate. It sounds cool, and I know that our guests leave a lot of books in their rooms that we have been discarding.

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The Yearbook Collector

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

I guess everybody needs a hobby. One of our recent guests at the Naugas has a weird one — he buys and sells yearbooks from his online store. He said he combs flea markets looking for high school, college and university annuals, yearbooks, football programs, schedules and etc., and sells it on his website at yearbooks.ecrater.com

He said he enjoys looking at the photos and descriptions, and trying to find anyone who has since become famous. He notes that every famous person probably made a fool of herself / himself in high school, and for some that continued on into college.

He reads old high school / college / university yearbooks for fun, I read Popular Mechanics magazine. To each his own.

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