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Always happens. Tis a rule of nature. There is a sliding scale
Windows half painted = rain.
Top floor windows half painted = gale
Roof off = gale + rain + snow + hale, all at same time
Walls half built, so vulnerable to tipping over = hurricane
PN: http://www.hertsdirect.org/services/libraries/services1/services/howtojoin/“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0 -
I feel an article coming on
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Surely Hertfordshire libraries should serve Hertfordshire people; its my council tax that is supporting them. Bit unfair if I want a book and its over the other side of the country!I'm a Forum Ambassador on the housing, mortgages & student money saving boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Forum Ambassadors are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an illegal or inappropriate post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with this). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com.0
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ebay probably hasn't done any harm to the print industry. But I think ebooks will. Seems pretty inevitable to me, actually.
It's economics: it costs $200,000 or so to put a single paperback on the market. Most books sell the vast majority of copies in two months. So, traditionally, paperbacks have been kept on the market for at most 6 months. Then they are replaced by new books.
Ebooks, on the other hand, cost virtually nothing to keep on the market forever once they are up.
So... it isn't going to be long before the entire back-list of your favorite author is available on kindle... and not via the bookshop. At that point, ebooks win.
Say, you discover a new author. There are two books of theirs in the bookstore. But you really like them. So you go online, and find their entire backlist of 20 books available 20% cheaper than a paper book...
It's not necessarily that kindle is better... it is that there is no reason every book ever written can't be available on it. Bookshops can't compete with that.
Those are the dynamics... along with the fact that you can buy books any time you want, the books can be read on your mobile phone anywhere in the world without lugging them around with you, they take up no shelf space, and authors make between 7 and 10 times as much per book sold at a cheaper price.
Those are the reasons books are going to die out rapidly.
I really really hope they do not, I cannot stand reading books electronically...plus I cannot afford the means of viewing electronically.
Can you imagine trying to read from a mobile phone screen for a couple of hours? It would be a nightmare, absolute nightmare.
I would be the idiot trying to print it all out so it can be read properly and without too much eye strain.We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0 -
Went to look at this today as it is nearby and is a similar style to ours with a large extension so went to see if it would give us any ideas.
Conclusion - it is as overpriced as we thought from the details - the price they are asking is for designer interior but actually it is just OK - and who would have designed a house where the family bathroom is tiny and has no window, half the bedrooms have ssections out of them for stairs, hot water tank etc and the 'loft room' is just that - the roof still has all the trusses, purloins etc so although there is a floor and some velux there is no clear space...strange.
The rear extension is fun though - that might give you some ideas.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
Maybe the future would be an app that converts text to audio, then you could relax back and listen to it being readI really really hope they do not, I cannot stand reading books electronically...plus I cannot afford the means of viewing electronically.
Can you imagine trying to read from a mobile phone screen for a couple of hours? It would be a nightmare, absolute nightmare.
I would be the idiot trying to print it all out so it can be read properly and without too much eye strain. 0 -
We have had a miniscule amount of rain over the last 6 weeks or so, still dry now but very windy.....bet eldest is having fun on the seafront in his part time job!We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0 -
It's probably his best day ever... nobody wants an ice cream, but most of the passing girls are struggling to keep their skirts from blowing upWe have had a miniscule amount of rain over the last 6 weeks or so, still dry now but very windy.....bet eldest is having fun on the seafront in his part time job! 0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Maybe the future would be an app that converts text to audio, then you could relax back and listen to it being read
Kindle already comes with that. Although it is still a bit like listening to Stephen Hawking reading, at the moment.“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0 -
I really really hope they do not, I cannot stand reading books electronically...plus I cannot afford the means of viewing electronically.
Can you imagine trying to read from a mobile phone screen for a couple of hours? It would be a nightmare, absolute nightmare.
I would be the idiot trying to print it all out so it can be read properly and without too much eye strain.
I've got ibooks on my phone. I thought it would be pretty awful trying to read a book on it because of the size of the screen, but actually it is fine. Also, there are a lot of free books on it, because of expired copyright, so I've ended up reading a lot of 'classics' which I probably would never have gone out and bought.
Still prefer a physical book, and it would be better on a tablet rather than on a phone.0
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