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From: Jim on 15 Apr 2010 04:33 On 2010-04-15, Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote: > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com>: >> Jochem Huhmann <joh(a)gmx.net> wrote: >>> But books feel different than aluminium and >>> glass, so an conscious comparison might be useful... >> >> They bend in the middle, for one. > > So does the iPad, as demonstrated in the `Will it blend?' video! Ha! Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "[The MP4-12C] will be fitted with all manner of pointlessly shiny buttons that light up and a switch that says 'sport mode' that isn't connected to anything." The Daily Mash.
From: Ben Shimmin on 15 Apr 2010 04:36 Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid>: > 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> Those exact ones are still on my parents' bookshelves. I can only assume everybody in England in the seventies (?) bought a set. I will be honest and say that I enjoyed _Swallows and Amazons_ but found the rest of them a little dull. b. -- <bas(a)bas.me.uk> <URL:http://bas.me.uk/> `Zombies are defined by behavior and can be "explained" by many handy shortcuts: the supernatural, radiation, a virus, space visitors, secret weapons, a Harvard education and so on.' -- Roger Ebert
From: Jim on 15 Apr 2010 05:03 On 2010-04-15, Tim Hodgson <thnews(a)poboxmolar.com.invalid> wrote: >> >> > But books feel different than aluminium and >> > glass, so an conscious comparison might be useful... >> >> They bend in the middle, for one. > > And if you drop them, you don't cry. > I simply have to post this: <http://mosspuppet.com/2010/04/14/this-is-why-the-ipad-is-awesome/> Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "[The MP4-12C] will be fitted with all manner of pointlessly shiny buttons that light up and a switch that says 'sport mode' that isn't connected to anything." The Daily Mash.
From: Chris Ridd on 15 Apr 2010 05:03 On 2010-04-15 09:30:18 +0100, Ben Shimmin said: > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com>: >> Jochem Huhmann <joh(a)gmx.net> wrote: >>> But books feel different than aluminium and >>> glass, so an conscious comparison might be useful... >> >> They bend in the middle, for one. > > So does the iPad, as demonstrated in the `Will it blend?' video! So *that's* why Apple's got no stock left to send to the rest of the world. -- Chris
From: Peter Ceresole on 15 Apr 2010 05:47
Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote: > > <http://foliosociety.org.uk/folio/books/swallows_amazons.jpg> > > Those exact ones are still on my parents' bookshelves. I have 13 of them plus 'Racundra's First Cruise', which is factual and brilliant. But my brightly coloured dust jackets are long gone- mine were a small boy's practical reading and colouring in set... > > I can only assume everybody in England in the seventies (?) bought a set. As I said, mine first ones are dated 1948, but not much changed in the mean time. > I will be honest and say that I enjoyed _Swallows and Amazons_ but > found the rest of them a little dull. It's absolutely not compulsory to like them. The ones I preferred were 'The Picts and the Martyrs' and 'Winter Holiday'. I still re-read those every year. -- Peter |