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Post by Weyland on Jan 11, 2011 8:08:32 GMT
From Kindle! First attempt.
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Post by aubrey on Jan 11, 2011 10:57:06 GMT
(2nd, more like.)
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Post by Weyland on Jan 11, 2011 11:21:59 GMT
Have I done it before, Aub? Unfortunately, I wouldn't be surprised if I had. Maybe I should start keeping a written log. But I'd keep forgetting where I put it. Too much blood in the alcohol-stream, I dare say. Weyland's Log, Stardate 2011.011-11:21 -- Looked at SC. Added Navy Rum to shopping list. Added "look at SC" to todo list. Added "start writing a log" to todo list. Looked for todo list.
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Post by Weyland on Jan 11, 2011 17:23:01 GMT
Latest acquisition from the Scope shop. The perfect loo book, Al Murray's Book of British Common Sense . . .
With the introduction of the Smoking Ban the beer garden has taken on an altogether grimmer appearance. After a rainy day it ends up looking like the Somme -- mud-smeared, fag butts like spent cartridges, people never returning from the sodden filth and squalor, at the going down of the sun we will remember them.
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Post by aubrey on Jan 11, 2011 18:08:43 GMT
It was just the second post announcing it, Weyland. I was being a git (as usual).
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Post by Weyland on Jan 11, 2011 18:42:41 GMT
It was just the second post announcing it, Weyland. I was being a git (as usual). Aubrey: Of the people who gather here to shelter from the Outer Darkness, you were one I would never have associated with gititude in any form. Are you sure you're usually a git? Maybe it's whisk(e)y depletion. I demand a second opinion!
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Post by Weyland on Jan 15, 2011 12:37:09 GMT
Good news at last from Rip-off Britain!
There are many Kindle books available from US Amazon for $1 -- "a book for a buck"*.
So you'd naturally expect them to be at least £1 at amazon.co.uk, which has been the standard rip-off technique for years with all sorts of products. But no -- they are 74p, which is pretty close to $1 + 20% VAT in sterling. (Yes -- there's VAT on eBooks.)
A pleasant change. __________ * Note the "oo" there, Jean. Buck and book sound more or less the same in the more degenerate accents. And it can get worse: cf. TV's Ready Steady Kirk. Not to mention the "oo" sounds in, for example, afternoon, tube, and you, which have turned into "ee" relatively recently. "Rain shaahze this aahfterneen". "Yee can see a clip on YeeTyeeb". Scandalous.
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Post by everso on Jan 15, 2011 17:05:17 GMT
B-b-b-but that's how we speak down here.
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Post by Weyland on Jan 15, 2011 17:18:04 GMT
B-b-b-but that's how we speak down here. Don't lie to me, Ev. I was at the Three Stags. I know the truth.
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Post by everso on Jan 16, 2011 16:22:40 GMT
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Post by Weyland on Jan 24, 2011 20:23:58 GMT
For the first time ever, and inspired by Radio-4, I'm reading a Trollope. (Don't go there -- it backfired on John Major when his trollop revealed all. To the press.)
Miss Mackenzie. Loving it, much to my surprise. And it indicates just how much had to be left out to compress it into two episodes for the wireless.
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Post by everso on Jan 25, 2011 0:41:41 GMT
I went through some Anthony Trollope books a few years back and thought they were excellent. Barchester Towers was one, but I can't remember what the others were called.
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Post by Weyland on Jan 25, 2011 16:34:59 GMT
Aub! Were you aware of this? . . . Gets Five-Star reviews on Amazon, about £12 for the paperback, and I bet you could pick it up 2 nd-hand in London for a song. (There's a Kindle version as well.)
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Post by aubrey on Jan 27, 2011 11:06:41 GMT
Thanks. I'll look for that.
I'm hoping to go the a dentist in Notting Hill soon, so I'll make a day of it and go to all the R&T shops there as well.
(R&T - record and tape Exchange. A chain of second hand shops of all kinds (except electrical goods and computers, which I think the Police stopped them from selling))
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Post by Weyland on Jan 30, 2011 14:07:41 GMT
I downloaded a Bible and a Koran to the Kindle this morning.
This is how they are listed in the Kindle Store at Amazon, verbatim.
The Koran by Muhammad, Gabriel, and E.H. Palmer
The Holy Bible (The Definitive Revised English Version) ... by God and Christian Faith Publishers
Fancy that! Restores my Faith. In humanity, that is.
The Kindle automatically indexes every document it receives, to facilitate searching the text. The Bible took about 15 minutes to be indexed. The indexing of the Koran has still not been completed, more than six hours later. I blame E.H. Palmer (peace be upon him).
It's unlucky to be superstitious.
[Medlars on GQT as I type.]
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Post by Weyland on Feb 4, 2011 11:32:38 GMT
For the first time ever, and inspired by Radio-4, I'm reading a Trollope. (Don't go there -- it backfired on John Major when his trollop revealed all. To the press.) Miss Mackenzie. Loving it, much to my surprise. And it indicates just how much had to be left out to compress it into two episodes for the wireless. Finished that. Great story. I'll be reading more Trollope in the course of time, but not before I've read the Foundation Trilogy again. I have a printed version and a Kindle conversion. Discovered that I prefer reading the paper one, and I doubt that that preference will go away. But I'll keep the Kindle handy as well, because it's easy to search the text should the need arise, or look up a word in the dictionary, or make a note, or bookmark a page, stuff like that.
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Post by everso on Feb 4, 2011 17:54:55 GMT
For the first time ever, and inspired by Radio-4, I'm reading a Trollope. (Don't go there -- it backfired on John Major when his trollop revealed all. To the press.) Miss Mackenzie. Loving it, much to my surprise. And it indicates just how much had to be left out to compress it into two episodes for the wireless. Finished that. Great story. I'll be reading more Trollope in the course of time, but not before I've read the Foundation Trilogy again. I have a printed version and a Kindle conversion. Discovered that I prefer reading the paper one, and I doubt that that preference will go away. But I'll keep the Kindle handy as well, because it's easy to search the text should the need arise, or look up a word in the dictionary, or make a note, or bookmark a page, stuff like that. Didn't they do the Barchester Chronicles on the t.v. back in the 80s? I'm sure Alan Rickman played the part of Mr. Slope.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Jan 21, 2014 13:32:51 GMT
Hugh Howey's "Silo" trilogy is fupping brilliant (Weyland and Motto would dig this series I reckon) I enjoyed the hell out of them...really good dystopian sci-fi! AH
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