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Favorite Links
My mother was fond of saying "you are what you read." These are some of our favorite links on the internet.
Amazon This immensely successful bookseller has achieved its #1 position with great service and entertaining coverage of its products.
Barnes & Noble Number two is trying harder, and some prices are much better than Amazon.
Bookpool. For technical books, this website beats everyone.
Critic's Choice: New and used movies at good prices. Some of their movies are impossible to find somewhere else.
Harbor Freight. Specials on tools. If you like tools you should get on their weekly mailing list. My friend Mr. Ed does that for me, because it just frustrates me!
Internet Movie Data Base Absolutely indispensable for movie buffs -- answer questions like "who was that supporting actor?" "what was that movie? -- I missed the title" etc, etc. Charlotte hates it because it runs our BTL bill up. NEW:
Once we got broadband, I put an icon on my desktop!!
New York Times: I
certainly don't agree with it's politics, or it's slant on the news (after all,
New Yorkers are just crazy) but I get a bulletin on the news every morning from
the Times, and, especially on Sunday Morning, I go out to the web and read the
specials that intrigue me. You have to join, but its free and
painless, and you can always cancel, if you don't like it.
J. C. Whitney. The daddy of all car catalogs is on line. We bought a chrome-plated double-trumpet air-horn for the Scout. (One of the trumpets broke off and it sounds like a dog-whistle now.)
Kelley's Blue Book New and used prices, both retail and trade-in, make this an irresistible resource.
CDNow. Used to be "Music Boulevard". A good place to browse, look for album titles and contents, or (they hope) buy. There are biographies of artists, reviews of new albums and collections. The prices are always competitive with the discount houses, and the selection, of course, is immense. Actually,
it's now a link to Amazon, but what the heck.
Reel New and used movies at great prices.
Urban Legends. Enormously
entertaining, Snopes has thousands of urban legends and incorrectly
attributed quotes. Didn't Mark
Twain say "Whenever I feel the urge to exercise I lie down until it goes
away?" Well no. He should have! This is an essential link
for me. If you get some mail and think "I just can't believe
this!" you probably shouldn't. So look it up on Snopes.
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT SOURCES
Musicians Friend. Best service on the web, overnight shipping to US only. Great prices & stock.
The Woodwind and the Brasswind. Widest range of instruments and accessories. Use the Acrobat (.pdf) Catalogs to see everything.
Daddy's Junky Music. Fantastic place for used guitars, drums, amps. Lists and lists. Many "used" instruments are like new. (I bought my Jag-Stang here and it still had the original tags on it.) NEW. Alas, Daddy's is out of the
mail-order business. 20 stores in New England have replaced that part of the business.
It's still a good place to find out what that used instrument is worth on the
open market.
Internet Music Supply.
Has incredible prices on parts for guitars. I downloaded the whole catalog as a text file so I don't have to go online to hunt for stuff. A great resource. NEW:
Well, it was. Somebody else bought it, and all the prices doubled or
worse! And I can't download the catalog any more! Stew-Mac
(below) is now competitive.
DebCo Electronics. Has great prices on anything electrical or electronic.
NEW: Well, prices have gone
up: You should check All Electronics, (below) currently my favorite
source.
All Electronics. (July
2004) Good prices, excellent service. Currently my favorite
source. Check it out.
Consolidated Electronics. A great source for Chinese parts -- cheaper, but the quality is lower too.
Stewart-MacDonald.
A really good guitar supply house. Has a wonderful illustrated catalog,
both on and off-line. The prices are a lot higher, but quality is
exemplary, and you know exactly what you are getting. Excellent
service.
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