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I used to play guitar, and I want to take it up again. New acoustic guitars are so tremendously expensive that I am reluctant to spend that much on a beginner instrument, but I see cheap beginner guitars on Amazon for $25 or $50. Where can I find something in between these two extremes?

Here is what I want:
a folk and blues acoustic guitar
steel strings
bell-like ringing tone
traditional flat back (those rounded backs just seem wrong to me)
new or as good as new
solidly put together (as in, the neck should be correctly aligned and the joinings should be neat)
an option I would really really like: one of the smaller scale guitars (I have small hands, as in, I can wear kid gloves)
Price range: $200-$300
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Transformative Works and Cultures
Vol 6 (2011)
"Fan Works and Fan Communities in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," special history issue of TWC guest edited by Nancy Reagin, Pace University, and Anne
Rubenstein, York University
Table of Contents
http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/issue/view/7

Kes: 4 articles in particular which I thought might be of interest to folks reading this journal:

1. "I'm Buffy, and you're history": Putting fan studies into history
Nancy Reagin, Anne Rubenstein
http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/272/200

2. The fan letter correspondence of Willa Cather: Challenging the divide between professional and common reader
Courtney A. Bates
http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/221/214

3. Bowlers, ballads, bells, and blasters: Living history and fandom
Mark Soderstrom
http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/270/208

4. and this article which exploes Darkover fan fiction
The Contraband Incident: The strange case of Marion Zimmer Bradley
Catherine Coker
http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/236/191
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So the USB cable for my BookPort finally went kaput after six or more years of heavy use and I need a new one. It'sone of those USB cables with the regular sized connector on one end and the smaller connector ont he other, non-proprietary. You would think that between Alexx and I we would have one of these, but the tricky part is "non-proprietary."

I will be in Davis Square on Saturday--can anyone recommend a decent electronicis store? I note that there is a Radio Shack in Porter Square but it has wretched reviews, so I'm trying to avoid that experience. I may also get a patch cord to connect my BookSense to my HD radio speakers, but I'm not sure what I need to do that.

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