Gone would be my dream of going to Harvard, Jail or Prison

From a post in grammargasm, why you should proofread even if you use spellcheck.

The the impotence of proofreading
By Taylor Mali

Has this ever happened to you?
You work very horde on a paper for English clash
And then get a very glow raid (like a D or even a D=)
and all because you are the word¹s liverwurst spoiler.
Proofreading your peppers is a matter of the the utmost impotence.

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New bookgeek toy

LibraryThing.

Enter a couple hundred of your titles for free, or shell out $10 for a lifetime membership and enter all of them. If you've got everything entered into Readerware or a similar program already, apparently you can import that info into LibraryThing. Nifty.

I grabbed the contents of the closest two shelves and started entering stuff; if you're curious, my LibraryThing bookshelf is here.