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by bloopernova 818 days ago
Amazon, 1996, I think. I bought Kim Stanley Robinson's Blue Mars. I got a note saying that I was one of their first UK customers, this was before the UK based Amazon existed.

And a mousemat with a Groucho Marx quote: "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read".