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Attention all Bibliophiles
« on: October 27, 2014, 07:46:17 AM »
While I generally like to support local businesses, I find the massive markups in local bookshops difficult to support. I've recently found that purchasing books over the internet can achieve significant savings.   Recently I've made a number of purchases from Booktopia, but I have just discovered Book Depository which is even cheaper, and delivery can be within five days.  Here's a couple of comparisons..........

Biggles' latest read "Two Wheels Through Terror"    Booktopia $28.95 plus $6.50 shipping     Book Depository  $20.92 including shipping

Haynes ST1300 Workshop Manual   Booktopia  $48.90 plus $6.50 shipping    Book Depository  $39.18 including shipping

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Re: Attention all Bibliophiles
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2014, 08:19:14 AM »
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"Two Wheels Through Terror"    Booktopia $28.95 plus $6.50 shipping     Book Depository  $20.92 including shipping

Kindle price US$10.06, delivered wirelessly in minutes.  Just saying...  And you can read it on your smart phone while taking a trip break and it weighs nothing.

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Re: Attention all Bibliophiles
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2014, 08:27:53 AM »
BIBLIOPHILE. : a lover of books especially for qualities of format; also : a book collector

Nothing about electrons and backlit screens there....   :nahnah   :grin
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Re: Attention all Bibliophiles
« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2014, 08:36:14 AM »

While I generally like to support local businesses, I find the massive markups in local bookshops difficult to support.
The massive markup is how these local businesses (not talking about chain stores) stay alive and put food on their plate.

How are businesses suppose to function if they sell everything at cost.

A standard book costs around $50,000 to produce. Just saying

 

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Re: Attention all Bibliophiles
« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2014, 09:36:59 AM »

While I generally like to support local businesses, I find the massive markups in local bookshops difficult to support.
The massive markup is how these local businesses (not talking about chain stores) stay alive and put food on their plate.
How are businesses suppose to function if they sell everything at cost.
A standard book costs around $50,000 to produce. Just saying

I paid over $40 for my own copy of "Two Wheels Through Terror" through my local bookshop when it's $20 through Book Depository. Half price is a big incentive to shop elsewhere, and I agree that it's a significant moral dilemma. 
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Re: Attention all Bibliophiles
« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2014, 01:55:52 PM »
I'm impressed your local bookshop stocked, or was prepared to order, the book.
Very small volume sellers like the books we're talking about are hard, if not impossible, to find locally.
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Re: Attention all Bibliophiles
« Reply #6 on: October 27, 2014, 03:48:08 PM »
BIBLIOPHILE. : a lover of books especially for qualities of format; also : a book collector

Nothing about electrons and backlit screens there....   :nahnah   :grin

It is all electron excited state transitions and multifrequency photons however you look at it.

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Re: Attention all Bibliophiles
« Reply #7 on: October 27, 2014, 05:12:32 PM »
It is all electron excited state transitions and multifrequency photons however you look at it.

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Re: Attention all Bibliophiles
« Reply #8 on: October 27, 2014, 05:21:24 PM »
Still electrons and photons involved in touch and associated nerve signalling.
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Re: Attention all Bibliophiles
« Reply #9 on: October 27, 2014, 05:27:52 PM »
Still electrons and photons involved in touch and associated nerve signalling.


fewer photons and more electrons (in conjunction with their parent atoms and dark matter).
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Re: Attention all Bibliophiles
« Reply #10 on: October 27, 2014, 05:36:54 PM »
Fewer of both actually, but both are critical for touch to work. it gets a bit more complex at the synapses where it essentially becomes ion flows between transmitting and receiving axons/dendrites, but both photonic movement and electron exchange are critical.

As these are electrons and ions, there is no such notion within context as "parent atoms". Also, dark matter does not interact with normal matter and so is of no consequence to any discussion of reading, via touch or vision.
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Re: Attention all Bibliophiles
« Reply #11 on: October 27, 2014, 06:33:04 PM »
You've got the last word on that one, since I'm obviously depending on half-forgotten and mostly-misunderstood High School physics.
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Re: Attention all Bibliophiles
« Reply #12 on: October 31, 2014, 09:17:14 PM »
Fewer of both actually, but both are critical for touch to work. it gets a bit more complex at the synapses where it essentially becomes ion flows between transmitting and receiving axons/dendrites, but both photonic movement and electron exchange are critical.

As these are electrons and ions, there is no such notion within context as "parent atoms". Also, dark matter does not interact with normal matter and so is of no consequence to any discussion of reading, via touch or vision.

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You could probably buy a cheap book from the Book Depository that will explain all that physics.   :grin
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Re: Attention all Bibliophiles
« Reply #13 on: October 31, 2014, 10:53:43 PM »
Fewer of both actually, but both are critical for touch to work. it gets a bit more complex at the synapses where it essentially becomes ion flows between transmitting and receiving axons/dendrites, but both photonic movement and electron exchange are critical.

As these are electrons and ions, there is no such notion within context as "parent atoms". Also, dark matter does not interact with normal matter and so is of no consequence to any discussion of reading, via touch or vision.

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Re: Attention all Bibliophiles
« Reply #14 on: November 01, 2014, 06:36:17 AM »
Morin' All...

I love old books or specifically, old motorcycle books and even better old Australian motorcycle / motorcycling books. And to that end while up in the back blocks of the Sunshine Coast and rummaging about an old book shop, I found this for $70 :grin

http://www.agnesbooks.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=142679&keyword=Motorcycles;&searchby=keyword&offset=0&fs=1

I had a copy of James Flood's lovely hard back coffee table book of Motorcycling in Australia 1899-1989. I cheerfully gave it to a Mate who is unwell who has personal connection to part of its content, but would like to get myself another copy. So if anyone comes across a copy, other than on fleabay, I'd be interested.

Cheers the can:-)