My favourite Internet bookshop — not to be confused with my favourite physical bookshop — has this thing that’s a bit annoying. You can’t order stuff they don’t have in. So if it’s temporary out of stock, all you can do is put it on the watch-list. Which is nice in a way , there’s few “sorry, we can’t deliver this” messages. But on the other hand, how do they know which titles to prioritize? I hope they get a blip when you add something to the watch list, but I’m too cynical to believe that.

It would be nice to get that Francesca Woodman book for a decent price instead of needing to mortgage the kidney. Which apparently Amazon wants you to do. I like my kidneys. They are a part of me as well as protected by a sticky layer of blood.