Won't it be wonderful if the Court rules in favor of the 1st? OTOH, why trust in a corruptible legal system? Use cash and don't leave the ID information at the goddam bookstore in the first place. If you're going to keep the book and you can't deduct it, peel stickers, destroy receipts. Duh! It is time for books to be published on CD. Using open-source tools and good encryption, then the fascists can't even tell what you read. Unless your OS is corrupted. Which brings me to the "Digital Church" e-mail. That has been suggested before. Doesn't seem very useful. I think some more useful things to do are : Hack CD burners to add a SetBurnerIDCode command. Gather, duplicate and distribute widely state, federal and unpopular information that is quickly disappearing. It's like F451 - private archives are the only way to save proscribed information. We're just about four months into the latest excuse the trash civil liberties and they're now telling us it could last for six years. Extrapolation looks nasty. Mike