BookThink. Finally; a Website with Living, Breathing Content, and a Real Editor on Duty.

BookThink provides resources for online and open shop book dealers, book collectors, and serious readers. Resources already in place or scheduled to be added in the coming months include 1st edition designations and issue points for 1,000s of publishers; detailed and illustrated book terminology; a moderated book forum; an extensive library of active and pertinent book-related links; reviews of books about books; and tutorials on practical book repair, grading, buying for resale, selling books online and off, building a personal collection, and more.

August, 2003 -- Its true. Theres a real, live editor on duty at BookThink, a new website recently launched by master online bookseller Craig Stark. Taking up where he left off as founding editor of the Bookologist, Stark is not only amassing rich insider resources and original content for online booksellers but also expanding his focus to include book collecting and other book-related matters, and its all hands on. You can even talk to him -- get professional advice - in the forum!

A free, twice-monthly newsletter, the BookThinker, provides secrets of the trade, in-depth articles on book grading, buying for resale, selling books online and in open shops, building a personal collection, and more.

Resources scheduled to be added in the coming months include 1st edition designations and issue points for 1,000's of publishers; detailed and illustrated book terminology; an extensive library of active book-related links; reviews of books about books; and tutorials on practical book repair -- no, not the kinds of repairs that require expensive tools and demanding techniques but those that can be accomplished by anybody for next to nothing.

Bumped corners? The most common of all book defects, and no way under the sun to repair those. Until now. Go to bookthink.com and see how it can be readily done for less than $10 worth of tools and supplies.

Visit us at http://www.bookthink.com. The first issue of the BookThinker is online, and the editor is IN!