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From: David Kennedy on 14 Apr 2010 15:53 Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote: > > I've still got four of my original set (early 80s Penguin paperbacks) > and recently went to t'Internet to see if I could get them all again. > The box set is rather nice, but rather dear! And finding even used > paperbacks is surprisingly annoying. > I had the hardbacks, not sure they had paperbacks at the time. > On the other hand, I recently swapped out a dozen Pratchett paperbacks > for their hardback equivalent for less than �3 average. Popularity > contests working in my advantage, that time. Yes, now is a good time to sort out any Pratchett requirements as I suspect the situation will change in the not too distant future, -- David Kennedy http://www.anindianinexile.com
From: Pd on 14 Apr 2010 16:13 D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > A few months ago I gave one of my children to read the book of Jack > London stories that my father bought for me when I was the same age. > Just by itself that was an experience worth living for. It would be a > terrible thing to deny oneself, or be denied. I got a similar feeling when we received a box of books from my wife's childhood. The frisson that ran through me when I uncovered Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons, a six volume set of the different coloured Jonathan Cape hardbacks, took me right back to when I first discovered them in my school library. <http://foliosociety.org.uk/folio/books/swallows_amazons.jpg> My neice has just had her 21st, and my mother (her grandmother) gave her an amethyst and gold necklace that had been given to her by her grandmother on her own 21st, nearly 60 years ago. That kind of generational continuity is something some people value highly. -- Pd
From: Ian McCall on 14 Apr 2010 16:42 On 2010-04-14 17:48:06 +0100, zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> said: > Anyone got anything (sensible) they want me to find out? Yep - literally, how do you hold it? Cheers, Ian
From: Jochem Huhmann on 14 Apr 2010 17:15 zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> writes: > Ian McCall <ian(a)eruvia.org> wrote: > >> Ah well. Not terribly exciting but possibly worth a mention. Someone >> else I know is having one brought back from the States next week so I >> may get a closer look then. > > I'll be getting to play with one (and ask questions of the owner) this > Monday. Anyone got anything (sensible) they want me to find out? Yeah, compare it to some books of similar weight and try to get an impression if this thing is really too heavy or if this is just an unfair comparison. I've found lots of books on my shelves which are as heavy or even heavier than that thing and I can't remember having any trouble reading those. But books feel different than aluminium and glass, so an conscious comparison might be useful... Jochem -- "A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
From: Jochem Huhmann on 14 Apr 2010 17:47
peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid (Pd) writes: > My neice has just had her 21st, and my mother (her grandmother) gave her > an amethyst and gold necklace that had been given to her by her > grandmother on her own 21st, nearly 60 years ago. That kind of > generational continuity is something some people value highly. I have no doubt that eBooks will not replace such things. They can't. But then they don't have to. I think about 90% of my books (or more) are just text printed on paper and getting rid of those would be both a large advantage and would give even more importance to those that I keep. Books are strange beasts. I'm just reading "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" (as an Ebook on my iPod touch) which I've already read when I was much younger. Back then I read it in the German translation, now in the original version. It's the very same thing though and I hardly notice any difference. But I still have the paperback copy I read back then and which I lent to my (former) girlfriend who read it and then shattered a bottle of red wine in her bag. I won't trash that copy, although it is actually ruined. Especially since a short while after that I suddenly found myself riding my Yamaha RD350LC on the Autobahn with the wrong wheel in front and lost control over it about three seconds later ;-) (no wine involved here, thanks for not asking) Pirsig's inquiry into quality and hipness and squareness is a fascinating read when you read it with our computer age in mind, by the way. I couldn't have picked a better time to read it again. Jochem -- "A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery |