# When you see a book so good, you scream, "OHMYGOD!"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-see-a-book-so-good-you-scream-ohmygod/267248>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 2, 2004, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-see-a-book-so-good-you-scream-ohmygod/267248 "2004-10-02T23:12:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-see-a-book-so-good-you-scream-ohmygod/267248/1 "2004-10-02T23:12:28Z")

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I saw this and actually started drooling. Not much else to say other than…Envy me and my impulse purchase!

Finally near a computer, can’t wait to see what the CD’s have to offer…

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**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-see-a-book-so-good-you-scream-ohmygod/267248/2 "2004-10-02T23:14:52Z")

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> [@js\_africanus](#):
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> Finally near a computer, can’t wait to see what the CD’s have to offer…

68,647 cartoons?

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**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-see-a-book-so-good-you-scream-ohmygod/267248/3 "2004-10-02T23:24:36Z")

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Yep, on two CDs. The introductions said that they’d pay ten bucks to anyone who can produce a New Yorker cartoon that wasn’t included. The book is over 600 pages, but they can’t fit all the 'toons into a book, so they went digital.

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**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-see-a-book-so-good-you-scream-ohmygod/267248/4 "2004-10-02T23:55:10Z")

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I would love to own that. Hardcore New Yorker subscriber for going on 20 years now. Although they’re currently in a slump, cartoonwise. They were funniest in the Art Spiegelman years; now there’s one or two funny ones per issue, tops.