in which I open a book store

Admit it, you've always secretly wanted to own a bookstore.  Rows and rows of dusty tomes, you as the expert navigator of the shelves, entertainingly eccentric customers... well, why not start now?

Amazon lets associates create "aStore", a site where you select the products to highlight (out of Amazon's catalogue), provide descriptions and groupings, and Amazon does all the work of display, navigation, and taking your customer's sweet sweet money.

So here are my stores:

Richard's Book Store (Canada)

Richard's Store (USA)

Egad, between this and eBay, the Internet is turning us into a nation of shopkeepers.

And photo gallery keepers... And radio station DJs... (oops, it appears my radio station is experiencing DMCA-related technical difficulties, due to a few tracks not having the album name entered)

I would list more books, but all of my book reviews are in LibraryThing, which is offline for a brief maintenance period...

It seems we are also becoming a nation of system administrators, network administrators, and storage administrators... never would have imagined that when clicking away on my Commodore 64, back in the day.

UPDATE 2006-August-19:  In terms of features, I would like to see more ability to create sub-pages.  Right now you have control over the nine items featured on the front page, with attached brief descriptions.  That is good functionality, but I would like to be able to feature multiple types of items on separate pages.  For example, I might want to do a page on political books, a page on science fiction, a page on fantasy, and sub-areas, for example one around using cameras and GPS devices together (like the information I have on my geocoding photos web page).  Amazon lets you create filter-based pages, but not sub-pages where you can select multiple featured items like on the front page.