Sometimes you just need to give yourself a little gift.
Brian Eno's
A Year With Swollen Appendices was published in a single run 23 years ago. Highly collectible, the book combines Eno's diary with a collection of essays, short stories, and correspondences.
There are no known plans for republication, no official ebook on the market, and only a crudely-scanned PDF in the filesharing community, of which the footnote columns make OCR extraction to EPUB a most daunting undertaking.
Nonetheless determined, I plugged the ISBN into an aggregate rare book search engine, entered my target price, and registered to be notified as soon as a qualifying copy was listed for sale by any of several million sellers.
As my good fortune would have it, one turned up soon thereafter at a Goodwill thrift store in San Francisco listed for nearly half the average selling price. And the purchase benefited a charity. I ordered it on the spot.
With so many titles in my library dissecting and analysing Eno's work and philosophy, it's a real privilege to have this glimpse into the mind of the man, himself.
