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Tree Bee
Ship's tiller girl
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OK, here's our programme; there are some really interesting books in this list.
January - Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett led by Golden Key.
February - Arcanum by Simon Morden led by Sir Kevin. (The author requests we don't obtain this from amazon.)
March - Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones led by Sarasa.
April - The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton led by Curiosity killed...
May - We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler led by Trudy Scrumptious.
June - Fathomless Riches by Richard Coles . Looking for a thread leader for this one.
July - What is Visible by Kimberly Elkins. Fineline , would you be happy to lead this one?
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Curiosity killed ...
Ship's Mug
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Originally posted by Doc Tor:
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Originally posted by Tree Bee:
December [reorganised to February] - Arcanum by Simon Morden led by Sir Kevin.
It's 700+ pages long. You may want to start early... ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
It's £3.99 on Kindle. You're much less likely to put your back out picking it up, too...
Kindle is Amazon - doesn't that make the author OK with us buying the book from Amazon?
(I bought my copy from a bookshop, but suspect to read it will end up with another copy on the Kindle - it being a bit heavy to carry to and from w**k with all the other stuff I usually heft around. Although the current price is £4.31)
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QLib
Bad Example
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I bought my Kindle from Watersones, but I haven't yet tried buying an ebook from them, though they do sell them. As far as I can gather, they use the Amazon system, so I presume some money still goes to Amazon at some point.
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Doc Tor
Deepest Red
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I have a message from the author of Arcanum... ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
"Hachette have sorted out their argument with Amazon for the time being, so if you have a kindle and want to read an ecopy, then go right ahead. There's no problem."
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Sarasa
Shipmate
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Doc Tor said:
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I have a message from the author of Arcanum... [Biased]
"Hachette have sorted out their argument with Amazon for the time being, so if you have a kindle and want to read an ecopy, then go right ahead. There's no problem."
That's good, at 700 plus pages I thought I'd better get reading, so I've just downloaded it to my kindle.
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Sir Kevin
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Good to hear. Expect to finish the first reading of the book next week and re-read it at least once after that prior to opening discussion.
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