The Wall Street Journal has an article about a huge collection of classics that is for sale on Amazon.com called The Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection. The collection consists of 1,082 books. List price: $13,317.74. Discount price: $7,989.99. The Wall Street Journal article points out that the shipping price for the entire 700 pound collection is a reasonable $3.99.
If nothing else, the Complete Collection has entertained Amazon's customer reviewers, such as the one who noted that "I would easily and gladly send for them this minute, thrill at doing so, eagerly await their arrival, only to be shot dead by my wife when she found out I'd ordered them."
At the risk of spousal gunfire, our first question was, inevitably, "How much does this cost to ship?" And so Jace walked the collection through the checkout process, clicking extremely carefully -- this ain't the time to buy something via 1-click ordering. When you're pretending to buy $8,000 worth of books, the landmarks of Amazon's checkout process can be amusing: You can't get this item gift-wrapped (rats!), but you can knock the price down to $7,959.99 if you sign up for the Amazon Visa card. And while the collection isn't available for free super-saver shipping, the shipping price turns out to be a beyond-reasonable $3.99.
The Wall Street Journal has an 
