Question about buying books on Amazon.

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4. i would suggest seeing if the author has a website.

that's my fave way to buy books. it's an easy place to get autographed copies too.
i'm in a michael palin fb page, and found out there that ordering his books direct, you can asked for an autograph and an inscription.
i ordered a book of limericks. the funny thing is, there's a limit to the characters you can enter. for some reason mine didnt go through. i got an email asking me if i wanted an inscription. from a tom palin, his bro?
anyway, it wasnt so much i wanted a particular inscription as i wanted to tell a story. in an exchange on the page, after a long and hilarious thread, i had been awarded the badge of the spanish inquisition. i replied to the email, no longer limited, w a longer version of the story.
took a while to get the book, as it shipped form england.

but the inscription reads-
no one expects the badge of the spanish inquisition.