Last week, one of my Facebook friends reported her improbable experience of buying a replacement for a book of literary criticism that had gone missing from her shelves about five years ago. When the package arrived and she got it back to her office, she opened the book to find her own name and the date she had bought the book: the replacement copy turned out to be the very copy that she had been seeking to replace. Continue reading “Professor buys her own copy of a book used on Amazon”