---
title: 'Semi-Random Thoughts about Books'
date: '2007-07-04T02:47:06-04:00'
permalink: /semi-random-thoughts-about-books/
tags:
    - research
---

1\. The [box](/un-post-sur-la-poste/) of them (a.k.a. *le colis de mystère*) is still nowhere to be found. The USPS remains clueless. La Poste no longer acknowledges that there was once a package with the number they’d assigned to it.

2\. The [ones](/your-amazoncouk-order-has-dispatched/) I ordered, estimated to arrive sometime between Monday and today, haven’t. At least yet.

3\. I cannot be positive, but I believe that in the missing box was a book about the history of the book, which it turns out I desperately need right now, not for the project I thought I needed it for, but for another one that I didn’t know I was going to be working on. So I’m about to start searching for decent online sources on the history of the book, because I don’t want to tempt fate by attempting to have any more books shipped to me. If you know of good sources that I should look at, please send them my way. *Electronically.*