PizGloria Celebrates 14 Years !

Today is the 14th anniversary of the launch of PizGloria.com.  I'm both pleased and very appreciative to everyone who has visited my website and I hope you enjoyed your time there and found it an interesting James Bond resource.

As usual I've gathered some stats from Google Analytics (GA4) for the last 12 months.  In total 6,420 users visited the website in the last year with an average duration of 1 minute and 6 seconds.  Also, most visitors directly accessed the website (they weren't referrals).

And while I was gathering these stats two people were active users (one in the UK and the other in the USA).  Soon they were joined by a third person from the USA, and all three remained active while I gathered these stats, which took at least 10 minutes as I still find GA4 a little hard to navigate.

That's all the interesting stats I could find.

As for PizGloria.com itself, I'm currently in the process of making it appear a little more modern and fresh, so apologies if there's some features not working 100%.

And if you haven't visited in a while, feel free to check it out again soon as I've added several new pages in the last year (see What's New for more details).  Also, all new book covers scanned have the 3D book view.  Eventually I'll retrospectively rescan all my older books so they will all have the 3D book view.

Thanks again, cheers Baz

ps. Thanks to my beautiful wife too for putting up with my collecting and purchasing.  We have spent many hours together visiting book shops around the world and your patience is amazing!

Christmas Break Book Hunt

During the warmer weather around Christmas my wife and I like to head to the beach for a day-trip when we can.  The Mornington Peninsula has some of the best beaches in Victoria and the town of Mornington is one place we always like to visit.

There are three book shops in Mornington.  Farrell's Bookshop, an independent general book store selling new books, and two secondhand book stores; Chapter House Books and Books By The Bay.

Last time we visited Chapter House Books there was a sign on the front window that read "Business For Sale".  On this visit I was pleased to see the sign gone and the store full of customers.  As always the store was well stocked and neatly organised but sadly no books for me.

Next we visited Books By The Bay but again it was closed.  We always seem to pick the wrong day to drop by.

For lunch we drove to Hastings where we stopped by a busy op-shop.  They had a couple of Bond related titles too.

Then we called by the Tyabb Packing House Antiques.  Unfortunately it turns out the entire book section has gone.  They used to have a designated section just for Bond titles but alas no more.

On our return trip to suburbia we stopped at a large Vinnies op-shop in Moorabbin I'd read about on-line.  And as the review had promised the place was huge and there were heaps of books.  I found a few Bond adventures but no luck as I had them all.  Still, I will return with fingers crossed next time.

No new additions to my collection from this book hunt, however the beach we visited on the Mornington Peninsula was too nice not to include a few pics here...