Guh.

Nov. 5th, 2013 08:53 pm
polychrome_pen: (Brandon and Sky Phantoblades)
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I just got a warning from Amazon that I have reached the maximum number of items allowed in a Wish List.

2500 items.  I am mildly ashamed by that number.  Mildly.

Cue a good hour and a half of culling from said list (instead of writing for NaNo, like I should be doing!).  I got it down into the 1900s, though!  Definitely need to be more choosy about what I add to the list going forward (and only add the first volume or two of a series).

Date: 2013-11-06 06:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stormyserenity.livejournal.com
2500 items? I cannot even imagine... do you wish for the entire series of everything by Runiko Takahashi? I don't think my list was ever over a hundred. I bow in respect of... I'm not sure what, but it fills me with respect!

Date: 2013-11-06 06:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ry-sabir.livejournal.com
Haha, I felt a little bit woozy when I saw that number as well!

I ended up finding loads of duplicates. Like hardcover and softcover of multiple graphic novel series where I added every volume. And I tend to use the wishlist more like a "reminder" list, where I hear about something interesting that I'd like to check out and plop it there, only to forget and never really come back to it. Lots of those got deleted, needless to say!

Date: 2013-11-06 07:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stormyserenity.livejournal.com
You can make more than one list, you know. =)

I have a main list and a "waiting for paperback" list that I put hardcovers on so I don't forget them while waiting for the paperback, and anything I'd buy if the used price went down. (though I think we've reached a point where enough people buy used that many things don't go down as much as they once did...)

Date: 2013-11-06 07:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ry-sabir.livejournal.com
I actually never realized that you could make more than one list. >__<

That is actually a wonderful way of working the lists! I might have to steal your secret Amazon list technique. (But don't worry, I'll never use it against you in a shonen manga tournament battle!)

Date: 2013-11-08 08:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stormyserenity.livejournal.com
Someday there will be an anime where kids battle using robots made out of their amazon wishlists...

Two lists also saves your family from spending more money on you than you want them to spend at Christmas, or seeing anything embarrassing that's on your list!

Date: 2013-11-06 06:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lovelykitta.livejournal.com
.....For that, you have my respect.

Date: 2013-11-06 06:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ry-sabir.livejournal.com
Embarrassment. I has it. XD

Date: 2013-11-06 07:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lovelykitta.livejournal.com
Hee!

By the way, what did you decide to do for NaNo? I finally settled on a mix of finishing some fics and doing planning for next year.

Date: 2013-11-06 07:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ry-sabir.livejournal.com
I'm working on finishing up Heart Stone. I really, really want to finish this fic (or maybe just be done with it? XD), and I figured if I don't do it now it probably won't ever happen, so here we go!

If I have any extra time at the end of NaNo, I plan on using it to finish up another smallish fic and write some flash fictions.

So it sounds like we're kind of in the same boat again - finishing things up instead of really starting anything new.

Date: 2013-11-06 03:36 pm (UTC)

Date: 2013-11-07 07:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ry-sabir.livejournal.com
*sheepish* It's only been, what, five years since I started writing it? Not to mention being semi-abandoned for something like 2.5 years. XD

Date: 2013-11-07 08:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] strongheartmaid.livejournal.com
::nods:: although, I probably shouldn't talk about reviving old fic. I do have one of my Winx Club fics that I was slowly turning original that I have to do massive rewrites for at some point ::pets Fantasy'verse:: it's so shiny [and I have new chapters for you to devour :D]

Date: 2013-11-06 01:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] strongheartmaid.livejournal.com
you know, that reminds me that I need to clean out my lists XD

Date: 2013-11-06 07:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ry-sabir.livejournal.com
Yeah, I dug up all sorts of fossils going to the end of my list. XD

Date: 2013-11-06 07:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] strongheartmaid.livejournal.com
I think I have a few of those in the form of Gen 3 MLPs ::laughs::

newest chapter to the Fantasy AU Dragon Flyz is up :D

Date: 2013-11-07 05:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tenken.livejournal.com
I...didn't even know there was a limit. How many people even get to read that warning message? I'd tell you to go in and give your list a healthy cleaning-out, but the sheer number of items is enough to put anyone off. It may remain forever an immovable glacier of old, whimsical wishes.
Edited Date: 2013-11-07 05:32 pm (UTC)

Date: 2013-11-07 06:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ry-sabir.livejournal.com
Hey, I got rid of almost 600 items. But that's like taking a teaspoonful of the ocean and saying you made progress. XD

Date: 2013-11-07 06:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] strongheartmaid.livejournal.com
I have nothing to say other then "squee" at the Ingway icon :D

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