I’m sitting here wondering how to handle my upcoming purchase of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
It’s sort of agonizing to realize that no matter what I do, I will not awaken on the morning of July 21 and magically find a copy of the book sitting on my nightstand (with a steaming hot vanilla latte next to it) just waiting to be read. I’ve got basically two choices:
A) go out to a bookstore and wait in a potentially long line, or
B) wait forlornly for the UPS dude to show up with my box from Amazon.
If I still lived in Colorado, I’d know what to do. I’d wait to buy the book at Target first thing in the morning. There would be no lines and lots of copies. Even the supermarket would have a hundred copies sitting there. But here, I don’t know what the retail scene will be like. What if the lines are really long? What if I ended up having to stand in a line all day instead of sipping my coffee and letting UPS bring my book to my door?
What to do?
When Book 6 came out, I was worried about the same thing, so I ordered from Amazon, and UPS never showed up until that evening! It was awful. I sat there in my house for hours fuming that I was Not Currently Reading The New Harry Potter Book because those fools down at Amazon had gotten it all wrong and then the idiots at UPS messed up the messed-up Amazon order and my copy of Book 6 was stuck in some warehouse instead of in my hands. I complained about it so much that my husband finally went out to a grocery store and bought another copy. So by the end of the day, I had two copies of Book 6, but there was peace in my house, so it was worth the extra money.
Can you believe the things I worry about? There’s a war on, people all over the world are starving or otherwise in need, the environment’s tanked, my sister’s about to have a baby any day now (nope, not yet), and I still haven’t sold my house in Colorado, but all I can think about is how to make this purchase so that I can be reading the book as early as possible on the morning of July 21.
So, here I sit, the Queen of Indecision: Amazon? or Borders? Amazon? or Borders?
You think that’s bad? You ought to see me when I’m ordering curriculum.
ARGH.
Sorry to say, but I recall that day with fondness. You were kind enough to give me the dreadfully SLOW TO ARRIVE UPS book!
I’m not sure if there is a Borders near you, but their website says you can pre-order for an in-store pickup on the day it arrives. That beats waiting for the midnight delivery from the UPS guy. (When did they start working around the clock anyway?)
Yes, I remember too. My extra money was Well Spent in more ways than one. Alas! Now you live far away, and to give you my extra copy I’d have to ship it via UPS which brings us right back to our starting point. Argh.
Ah, the Borders pre-order…yes…that may do it.
And, did you notice that I misspelled the title of Book 7 at the beginning of this post? I’ve corrected it, but…shame on me. Really! What kind of fan am I?
It’s always better to worry about things you can actually change! I had the book on order but cancelled with B&N over something petty. Not sure why I ordered anyway. I’ve only read books 1 and 2 and book 1 was missing pages!!!
You only got as far as Book 2, huh? Oh man, you’re missin’ out.
Read ON, I say! READ ON!
On a completely different note, I’m tagging you for a meme: 8 things about me. Feel free to ignore this.