so i went to buy kindle version of maurer on amazon, but it was $12.99 and then i noticed that used copy was only $1.99 + $3.99 shipping and handling and $5.98 < $12.99 - idk, weird world where actual physical thing costs less than digital version.
― Mordy, Monday, July 30, 2012 9:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this drives me
unsane
― joaquin haus-partizan (s1ocki), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 05:12 (eleven years ago) link
lol i meant to type insane
weird world where ignorant morons think paying customers are stupid, more like
― undermikey: bidness (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 05:36 (eleven years ago) link
even the simplest person understands the reduced overhead in emailing a file v dispatching a physical ream of paper
― undermikey: bidness (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 05:37 (eleven years ago) link
that used copy is from some third party vendor though.
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 10:40 (eleven years ago) link
i sometimes find free copies of the New Yorker at the train station, but that doesn't make me demand that my kindle subscription cost nothing.
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 10:42 (eleven years ago) link
^ ridiculous
― undermikey: bidness (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 11:04 (eleven years ago) link
not really
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 11:20 (eleven years ago) link
yah. comparing brand new books w/ kindle makes sense... 2nd hand, not so much.
― just sayin, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 11:23 (eleven years ago) link
my fault for missing the crucial second-hand fact of the book in that example
― undermikey: bidness (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 11:53 (eleven years ago) link
fwiw, a new physical copy costs $1.00 more than the kindle version
― Mordy, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 12:16 (eleven years ago) link
"fwiw", heh.
― Tim, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 12:22 (eleven years ago) link
in aus the physical costs $13 and the download is $6.50
― undermikey: bidness (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 12:31 (eleven years ago) link
fwiw fwiw my digital subscription works out to ~$1.05 per issue fwiw
― undermikey: bidness (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 12:34 (eleven years ago) link
i mostly buy my books used through amazon, great deals
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 12:43 (eleven years ago) link
i often find kindle versions costing more than the paperback
― joaquin haus-partizan (s1ocki), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 12:55 (eleven years ago) link
(new)
Wow, that marathon dude.
― Trewster Dare (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 12:59 (eleven years ago) link
I'm generally miffed that the library only had x copies of digital books, because it's digital and they should have, like, a million copies. It's weird to me that digital books are regulated the same way as physical books, with x number of copies beholden to the same rules (checked out for two weeks, wait lists, etc.)
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 13:00 (eleven years ago) link
library got to buy the book just like everybody else
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 13:02 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I get it. It's just weird to wait for something that is not physical to arrive.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 13:20 (eleven years ago) link
have u never waited for... love
― joaquin haus-partizan (s1ocki), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 13:21 (eleven years ago) link
It's weird to me that digital books are regulated the same way as physical books, with x number of copies beholden to the same rules (checked out for two weeks, wait lists, etc.)
Welcome to the wacky world of copyright
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 13:37 (eleven years ago) link
looked for Maurer on Nook yesterday, and there was the 12.99 edition, but there was also a free out of copyright book by him entitled something like 'Language of the Criminal', which I 'bought'.
― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
link?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
OK just going to go ahead and comment on the marathon article so if you haven't read it yet you might want to skip this - i thought it was an interesting, entertaining read but was not very satisfying. i wish they had 100 percent nailed the guy on his cheating before writing an article about it. i'm sure he was cheating and it felt like there was a lot of evidence against him but not like one solid devastating beyond-a-doubt piece of proof. it was annoying at the end when he was like "and we never figured out exactly how he was cheating, oh well."
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
xpost i got it from the Nook store directly through my device so I'm not sure how to link it?
― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
(aaaand nevermind-- though it declares itself to be Maurer's Languages of the Underworld, the guts are actually an Italian language book summarizing the plots of operas).
― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
I'm generally miffed that the library only had x copies of digital books, because it's digital and they should have, like, a million copies.
You wouldn't believe the amounts publishers want to charge for unlimited access. Few libraries can afford it.
― LISTEN TO THIS BRAD (Nicole), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
n/a -- I was a little annoyed at that, too, but also astonished at how much stonewalling Litton did, even after Singer confronted him. The fact that Singer wasn't able to conclusively pin anything on Litton further emphasized the degree of deception/delusion.
― Trewster Dare (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, July 31, 2012 2:30 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
hah
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i kindof love that the litton article isnt ttly shorn up. whole thing is fascinating tho
creating race results where no race existed is some egomaniacal shit
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 2 August 2012 15:16 (eleven years ago) link
just started that one, even though I'm about 4 issues behind
― k3vin k., Thursday, 2 August 2012 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
people who can't stay on top of their new yorker shit should be banned from this thread imo. put up or shut up.
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 2 August 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
it's not a race
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 2 August 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
it's a weekly magazine
isnt the whole point of this thread to alert ppl who can't keep up to interesting new articles?
start your own thread
― joaquin haus-partizan (s1ocki), Thursday, 2 August 2012 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
great responses to my entirely serious post, guys
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 2 August 2012 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
very prompt and pertinent
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 2 August 2012 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
don't blame the audience
― joaquin haus-partizan (s1ocki), Thursday, 2 August 2012 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
im with you nick
― max, Thursday, 2 August 2012 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
great jokes everyone
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 2 August 2012 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
if you have unread back issues of the new yorker around your house, you should be sterilized so that you can never reproduce
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 2 August 2012 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
then start a sterilization thread
― joaquin haus-partizan (s1ocki), Thursday, 2 August 2012 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
I think I keep up pretty well. By the time a new issue arrives, there might be an unread article or two from the previous issue that I meant to get to, but I've usually already read the ones I was most interested in. So typically, I just move on.
― Trewster Dare (jaymc), Thursday, 2 August 2012 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
can't believe people don't use their lunch hour to read Malcolm Gladwell articles.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 August 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
I have him on 'ignore' just like Gopnick.
― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 2 August 2012 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
^^^
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 2 August 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
who gets an hour for lunch!
― k3vin k., Thursday, 2 August 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
plenty of ppl
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 2 August 2012 19:18 (eleven years ago) link