Kevin's Watch

Orlion wrote:

Vizidor wrote:John Crowley's - Little, Big.
An impulse buy that popped up on the radar.

It's an excellent book.

Never heard of it. Sounds really good. Not likely, though, at that price. Maybe it'll go on sale.

Fist and Faith wrote:

Orlion wrote:

Vizidor wrote:John Crowley's - Little, Big.
An impulse buy that popped up on the radar.

It's an excellent book.

Never heard of it. Sounds really good. Not likely, though, at that price. Maybe it'll go on sale.

Yeah, that was an expensive paperback!
Actually I hadn't given it much thought until I read your post
I really must sort out an online money account for the use of Amazon, etc.

Anyway, I've been a big fan of Sylvia and Bruno since the early 80's. Which was a major factor for getting the book.

Wait, what does it cost? Only about £8-9 here, same as most paperbacks...

£10.99 from Waterstones, (=$16.9153).

£7.69 from Wordery, £8.29 from the Book Depository. Waterstones never really has decent prices.

I do ebooks when I can. This one is $11. Crazy.

I went to buy John Scalzi's Redshirts as an ebook a couple of years ago and it was €18

I figured out later that it was so expensive because it came out originally in large format (and maybe hardback as well). The price of the ebook was being set off the price of the paper book. (I presume it's out in paperback now, as the price of the ebook is $7.81.)

I understand the marketing logic of it but there doesn't seem to be much common sense to it

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Avatar wrote:Not really my style. Still, relatively good.

--A

Genre-wise, there's some seriously bad stuff out there. Also turns out that people who write excellent music can't necessarily write an entire novel.

Sorus wrote:Also turns out that people who write excellent music can't necessarily write an entire novel.

Madness!

Half through Accelerando, by Charles Stross.

Sorus wrote:Genre-wise, there's some seriously bad stuff out there. Also turns out that people who write excellent music can't necessarily write an entire novel.

I ended up quite enjoying it for the most part. The writing wasn't my favourite, but the book was good. Included a race of sentient steam robots whose religion was like a mechanical Voodoo.

Anyway, re-reading "Going Postal" (and probably the rest of the Moist books while I figure out what's next.

--A

Fist and Faith wrote:I do ebooks when I can. This one is $11. Crazy.

I was wondering what you were complaining about. The paperback isn't so bad a price and really is one that should be read in an actual book.

That, and ebooks are a degradation of the art

Orlion's Signature wrote:"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
-John Crowley

And of course the smell of a new book can make it all worth while.

Although, I guess to save money one can buy the cheapest new book they can find, and every ebook thereafter can be listened to (with eyes shut) and the new book whafted just under the nose.

Vizidor wrote:

Orlion's Signature wrote:"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
-John Crowley

And of course the smell of a new book can make it all worth while.

Although, I guess to save money one can buy the cheapest new book they can find, and every ebook thereafter can be listened to (with eyes shut) and the new book whafted just under the nose.

Hmmmm... you make an excellent point!

Yeah, I'm a paper book person. I don't even have an ebook reader.

--A

Yeah, I used to be one of you guys. I was opposed to the idea of ebooks, and upset that so much business was going that way. Upset that I can't browse through the books in the store, because the stores are closing due to things like amazon.

But then I tried one. I think I had to, because whatever it was wasn't available in paper any longer. It turns out words read the same no matter what format you read them in. Go figure. Being able to carry a dozen, or hundred, books around in my pocket is a selling point. Being able to search for a particular passage in a book I previously read is another. And the daily/weekly/monthly deals at amazon and Barnes & Noble are excellent. At the moment, ten Arthur C. Clarke books are $1.99 each. We're not often lucky enough to get so many from a giant in the field. But there are many for 99 cents, and many for free. If the description sounds good, it's difficult to go wrong. I've found several books I've enjoyed tremendously this way. (Markus Sakey's Brilliant series; William Hertling's Singularity series are great examples.) New releases often pop in there for a day.

I like printed books, but ebooks sure are handy for traveling.

Fist and Faith wrote:Being able to carry a dozen, or hundred, books around in my pocket is a selling point.

That's the only positive...travelling with books sucks...especially when you read as fast as I do. Readers are hell of an expensive here though.

Anyway, I'm reading Making Money, the next Moist von Lipwig book.

--A

sgt.null wrote:

I have it in hardback. do not have kindle. only image i could find that worked.

I prefer the actual book. I even love the way an old paperback smells. except when it belonged to a heavy smoker.

Avatar wrote:
Anyway, re-reading "Going Postal" (and probably the rest of the Moist books while I figure out what's next.

--A

Have you seen the movie (or miniseries or whatever it was) they made of Going Postal? They did quite a good job.


I was resistant to the whole e-book thing for a long while, though I did finally break down and get a Kindle a few years back. I like it, though I try to support my local bookstore too - they almost had to close earlier this year and are still struggling. Not many bookstores left in this city.