don't panic but

[wednesday_10_00]

bk1 is being swallowed up into some (e-book?) site called "honto." It looks like they are still going to accept international orders (if you have placed an international order before--wait, what?), but there's nothing about shipping policies, so who knows if they will still offer SAL shipping or not. (Maybe we should panic about that one.)

Gah. GAH.

Comments

[mangaroo.livejournal.com]

I never want to discourage someone from ordering manga, but...just check your order history with them, instead?

Though I understand your concern about how long it has been. I just checked my history and had forgotten the order I placed with bk1 in 11/2011. Before that, my previous order had been in 7/2009, and I fear they would have taken this opportunity to purge me from the system. Of course, not accepting new international customers means this is a constantly shrinking aspect of their business. If they don't open up registration, they will eventually shut it down when the international customer base shrinks to an unsustainable level.

[sara-tanaquil.livejournal.com]

It appears my last order with them was in late 2010, so definitely more than a year.

(Also, am glad I had a chance to go in and save a copy of my order history; I like to squirrel away things like that.)

They do seem to have my current address on file, but I have a pretty large backlog of things I haven't gotten around to ordering, so it would probably make sense to put in another order with them before the change, just to be safe.

[wednesday-10-00.livejournal.com]

I had a chance to go in and save a copy of my order history

Just out of curiosity, did you save the web pages, or just the information? I guess I consider my order history to be preserved in gmail, so I'm not worried about that.

[sara-tanaquil.livejournal.com]

I saved the whole web page. I have order history going back to 2005, so it predates my gmail. I could dig up the same information by going into my financial records, but having it all in one place is more convenient.

[wednesday-10-00.livejournal.com]

it predates my gmail

Same for me, but I imported all my old MSU mail into gmail when I started, so I have it there anyway. (I just checked to make sure, and I found the registration email and everything. Really could have deleted some of the other junk they've sent me, but I'm too lazy to do anything about that now, so oh well.)

[sara-tanaquil.livejournal.com]

You don't want to know how much email I have archived from before gmail (it goes back to 1993... some of it is in pine). At various times I've transferred the archive into newer formats so I can still access it (at the moment all my archives live in Mail on the mac) but it is a giant pain to search.

I occasionally transfer some of the old mail into gmail for easier access, but honestly I don't want my gmail burdened with every #$%@! message I've ever saved.

[sara-tanaquil.livejournal.com]

Hee! OK, I actually just used this as an excuse to try out the search features in Mail. It dug up all my old BK1 messages pretty quickly, going back to 2005 -- not bad. I'm still glad I saved the order history page with everything handily listed in one place, though.

[mangaroo.livejournal.com]

I'm still glad I saved the order history page

Am I missing a handy "show all my orders on one page" link? Because for me this is 14 separate pages. Or, if I saved by invoice instead of order history, maybe 50+ pages.

[sara-tanaquil.livejournal.com]

Yikes, that's a lot of history! My order history all fits on one page, but I haven't ordered from bk1 nearly as much as you have, I think. I tend to use Amazon more often (I deal poorly with delayed gratification).

[mangaroo.livejournal.com]

Drat. Now that I've decided to do this, I was hoping that option existed. (I love how I shifted from NOT planning on preserving the order history to "Sara's done it. Now I have to.")

[sara-tanaquil.livejournal.com]

Um, sorry? :-)

FWIW, these days I mostly save web pages by using the print to PDF feature on the Mac, which is pretty quick. Not as complete as saving a web archive, I suppose, but it's not like I'll ever need this information for anything other than morbid curiosity, anyway.

[mangaroo.livejournal.com]

Do you back up your drives in "the cloud"? For me, downloading the web pages would become a nightmare of transmitting the documents from one drive to the next. Gah. Digital flotsam.

[sara-tanaquil.livejournal.com]

I am a pack rat sans compare. Just about every digital piece of flotsam that I have ever created on any computer is dutifully transferred from one computer to the next. I keep everything aggregated in one or two places, so it's not hard to transfer without keeping track of the bits.

If you really care that much about my backup strategies: the core of my data is backed up via Dropbox. Things which are either too big or not important enough to be in Dropbox (I have 50G storage there) are backed up automatically and wirelessly from laptop(s) to network drive. The network drive is backed up to an external drive.

And I still feel like I'm not quite backed up enough (what if a power surge fried both the network drive and the external drive? never mind the UPS/surge unit I have on them)... I have issues with my possessions.