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Search kinda sucks at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Powell’s,
July 6th, 2008 8:08 pm by Vincent Flanders
I entered the following into Amazon’s search box: How Can I Talk If My Lips Won’t Move. Amazon said:
Your search “How Can I Talk If My Lips Won’t Move: ” did not match any products.
The only mistake I made consisted of one letter — Don’t instead of Won’t. I’m sorry, but that’s just unacceptable. I tried the same search at Barnes & Noble and Powell’s, but they couldn’t find the book. Oh, Borders gets it right. Why did I search for the title? I couldn’t remember the author’s name: Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay.
BTW, it’s a great book about what it’s like to be autistic.
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