Like fine wine....Tom C and Between the Covers...

Tom Congalton is one of my more favorite humans on earth (sometimes you just have to be able to pin such things to one's sleeve). Above and beyond being a great bookdealer (and one extremely open and sharing with his knowledge), he also built [or oversaw the building of] one of the very best bookshop websites ever. Personally, I think he should license it, but I'll go into the genius of Between the Cover's website in an upcoming post (on design options and UI).

My reason for throwing up this post, however, is simply to recommend his wonderful short essay on age and aging in the book trade. Much of what he says mirrors various concerns/rants of my own...only *much* more eloquently (that is, the bits on age, the profession and [unspoken] the fun of performance art theatre of the absurd...not so much the poker). Enjoy...and avoid poker, stick with games you can throw math at...