sharing the temptation

[p_zeitgeist]

I'm not really here. But I thought my fellow Making Things addicts might want (or not want) to know what I just learned via phialastring: Interweave, suppliers of many very tempting books on technique, is having a Hurt Books Sale. It ends tomorrow, but right now? I didn't look at the knitting or spinning sections, but if they're as good as the metalworking

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[lady_ganesh]

Oooh. Dangerous.

[p_zeitgeist]

Very.

I was so, so not in the market for more books. That was before I clicked the link. Now I live in fear of how many more expensive specialty tools I'm going to discover that I need, the very instant my order arrives.

But I ordered this. And if it turns out that I can actually follow any of the author's instructions, I tell myself that the extravagance will justify itself almost immediately. (I can set gemstones now, sort of. But my ha-ha aesthetic falls into that distinctive category of, "Errors? What errors? I meant to do that!" I will feel much better about this if and when it becomes true.)

[lady_ganesh]

This is so tempting.

[p_zeitgeist]

If you decide to do it, use my coupon code: XTRA10. They should take an additional 10% off the cover price (though not shipping or tax) at checkout. To my considerable annoyance I found the coupon in my inbox this morning -- after, of course, I had placed my order.

I'd have had it earlier, I suppose, if I'd been signed up with them before this order. But it's still annoying, and while I wouldn't tell you to buy things just to use my coupon, it you were buying something anyway I would find it gratifying if you could make use of the thing.

(I suppose I'm not a lot of help, am I? With the temptation, I mean.)

[dancing_crow]

thank you, I think

[p_zeitgeist]

That's almost precisely what I said to phialastring.

I was not in the market for more books! I told myself that very firmly, even as I clicked the link. Especially since in the real world, only a small proportion of the yummy-looking books on technique turn out to be of any real use. But then, the ones that are turn out to be critical texts you rely on every week, forever, and how do you tell which they are without ordering them? And then if you learned you did need them, how silly would you feel about not having grabbed them when you could get them for 60% off?