Do you ever do this?

[Farm Ur-Ted]

So I'm reading Mad Ship (Hobb) last night, and I flipped to the end to see how many pages the book had. And I noticed that at the end of the book, they had one of those order forms for some of her other books. Does anyone order a book that way? Seriously, I'm not sure I ever did that 25 years ago; I certainly can't imagine doing it now, except for maybe on a lark. How does it work? You check the boxes on the books you want, get out your adding machine and figure out the cost including shipping and handling, rip the page out of the book and stuff it in an envelope with a check and mail the darn thing? And then what? Wait like 2 years until the books show up? Crazy! Why do they still have those order forms in the backs of books? You don't even get a discounted price. Haven't these goobers heard of Amazon?

[Cagliostro]

Adding machine? What is this new technology. Is it anything like an abacus?

[Farm Ur-Ted]

It's a step above a slide rule.

[High Lord Tolkien]

Ted, my Mad Ship etext doesn't seem to have anything like you mentioned.
What version do you have?
Sounds like you have a virus or something.
I'd run a scan on it buddy!
Be careful.

[emotional leper]

Is it an eBook? Many of the older Sci-Fi books I have have order forms in them, which I've thought of using, to get a currently 7 or 8 dollar book at less than $1.

[Farm Ur-Ted]

No, it's just a regular old paperback. You can get each of the three Farseer books for $6.99 ($9.99 in Canada).