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Our Most Recent Catalog
Maritime List 377 – Only Three Days
July 30, 2026
Here’s a gathering of the fruits of two recent road trips. In each case I was working toward the future purchase of a large collection, so there was nothing coming forth immediately from those either of those two sources. But, hey – a guy’s gotta eat! So I bought what I could, where I could, enroute, and what you see is the result. I was thinking of naming this list after that ur-trucker song “Six Days on the Road,” but it was only three days in my case.
In other news, I was recently solicited by an obvious AI scam for a product called BiblioScan. The opening sentence read, “You’ve specialized in old and rare books, manuscripts, and charts pertaining to the sea since 1976.” Any time a person starts off by telling me something I already know all too well, I strongly suspect the “person” of being a machine. But not so fast! I snapped off a snotty reply and received an email response from the “person” who’d sent it. She was pissed off that I’d been so rude to her. Can robots do that? I asked my own robot what BiblioScan was and it told me the product would be useful to “thrift-store flippers.” I think I was the one who should have been pissed. Read Maritime List 377 and tell me if you think it could have been the work of a thrift-store flipper.
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