Kevin's Watch

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?

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

It's a step above a slide rule.

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.

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.

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