Bezos may be a jerk, and he is, but Amazon is awesome! Leave my Amazon be!
@aligncare I started using Amazon in the early Aughts, when I noticed two things about my favourite book stores and record (well, CD) stores:
more often than not, they seemed to have staffers who really knew about as much about literature and music as the average
Congressman knows about organic chemistry. For rebuilding and expanding my home library, and for finding boatloads of other
things I use regularly---like a 200-piece cache of Electrolux vacuum cleaner bags at a price that made it come out to about 50
cents a bag (yes, I'm old fashioned enough to despise bagless machines where you get it in the face when dumping out the
dirt cups/chambers, and I hated upright cleaners even before that)---Amazon's been a godsend.
And I couldn't help thinking every so often: if Borders and Tower Records had smelled the proverbial coffee early and often enough
and built a solid Web presence to augment their brick-and-mortars, they might still be alive today. Just as Barnes & Noble is.