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  • Keith Braidwood

    #61
    Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
    I've been considering buying a Kindle for some time, but now I might well opt for the Nook.
    Buy the paperback (or hardback). Although I still, and always will I suspect, prefer a physical book, I have seen the new Kindle range and they are very good indeed. If it's just for reading, no web browsing etc, the Kindle Paperwhite is the best of them all. You can get the complete works of Shakespeare for £1.53 too on Amazon's Whispernet (not sure what that is though).

    Unfortunately the Kindle is far superior to the Nook.

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    • richardfinegold
      Full Member
      • Sep 2012
      • 7749

      #62
      Originally posted by Keith Braidwood View Post
      Buy the paperback (or hardback). Although I still, and always will I suspect, prefer a physical book, I have seen the new Kindle range and they are very good indeed. If it's just for reading, no web browsing etc, the Kindle Paperwhite is the best of them all. You can get the complete works of Shakespeare for £1.53 too on Amazon's Whispernet (not sure what that is though).

      Unfortunately the Kindle is far superior to the Nook.
      there is always the ipad....I also prefer a physical book (just finished reading Jane Austin's Emma, which I had on both the ipad and the old fashioned Penguin Classic Print version, and kept ditching the ipad for the physical book. I'm sure that Mr. Knightley would have done the same).
      I caught a few snatches on Jeff Bezos on an American Talk Show this AM while I was seeing patients in the hospital. The interviewer (Matt Lauer) was fawning all over him, and Bezos is a smarmy arrogant snot. I do think that I will stop ordering CDs from Amazon and just use the other online services. I will probably buy a few less CDs, but my shelves are groaning under thier present mass anyway, so this is a good thing.

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      • roberta

        #63
        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
        I've recorded QT but not watched it yet. I imagine the above somewhat lit Mr Farage's blue touch-paper, no?
        sorry, i dont do spoilers!!!

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        • amateur51

          #64
          Originally posted by roberta View Post
          sorry, i dont do spoilers!!!

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          • LHC
            Full Member
            • Jan 2011
            • 1567

            #65
            Sorry to raise this issue again, but some more details are coming out about the extent of Margaret Hodge's personal circumstances.

            When the revelations about Margaret Hodge’s shares in Stemcor came out a few weeks ago, she claimed that she was “a tiny, tiny, tiny shareholder”.

            However, it now appears that her direct shareholding in Stemcor is 1.26%, which means that her personal shareholding is worth £1.8 million. Furthermore, this figure excludes shares held in trust or in her children’s names. Stemcor’s share register shows that Hodge also holds several million pounds worth of shareholdings in trusts, including for members of her family. Holding shares in Trust for family members in this way is often done as a way of minimising future inheritance tax liability.

            It seems that while Hodge is very keen for companies (or at least companies she doesn’t hold shares in) to not avoid tax, she doesn’t seem to think the same strictures should apply to her or her family.
            "I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square."
            Lady Bracknell The importance of Being Earnest

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            • Paul Sherratt

              #66
              That's just Barking, LHC.

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              • Zauberfloete

                #67
                I boycotted Amazon just before Christmas last year, not for any taxation reasons (I wasn't aware of them then, anyway) but because their carrier (Yodel), who delivered a box of books to my house when I was out, helpfully left it outside in the snow so that the contents were completely ruined. I can't STAND to see books being spoilt! I did get replacements but ended up having to travel to the Yodel depot myself to collect them. Since then, I've not used Amazon at all. To be honest, I've not really missed them. I can get CDs and books from other places which don't use Yodel.

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                • Anna

                  #68
                  What an odd coincidence about Yodel! I've ordered a book from Amazon, expecting the usual Royal Mail delivery. Instead I find in my confirmation email it is to be delivered by Yodel. It's a hardback, 300+ pages but not exactly 10 volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica is it? I find it started off in Inverclyde, then went to East Kilbride, West Midlands, Wednesbury and is now stuck in Nantgarw where it's advised on tracking information that delays are expected. Normally I wouldn't worry but I see on Amazon there is a petition taking place to stop them using Yodel ..... having read the petition and the horror tales therein and now Zauberfloete's above I'm getting slightly worried that it will either a) be chucked over the fence, b) left on the doorstep in the rain or c) not delivered to next door neighbours as requested by polite note I've pinned to the front door. I'm also worried about the carbon footprint aspect as I understand the two biggest Amazon warehouses nearest to me are Swindon or Swansea, not the wilds of Scotland!

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                  • keithbraidwood2

                    #69
                    I've heard some bad stories about Yodel but personally I've never had anything go wrong. Perhaps I am lucky, I live in a flat so if a neighbour cannot take it in a card is always left and when I reschedule delivery it goes without a hitch. Now if you were talking about Citylink...to have bad service you first have to have service.

                    Anna, it depends which warehouse has the item in stock. Not everything is stocked in each. My local one is Dunfermline in Fife, but I've had items be sent from the balmy south. Your book is too heavy for a standard postman/woman to deliver so it would then go out to Royal Mail, Citylink, Yodel or one of the other couriers Amazon uses. The petition you refer to is highly unlikely to succeed as compared to the sheer number of parcels Yodel delivers, not only via Amazon, the overall service is certainly good or very good.

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                    • cloughie
                      Full Member
                      • Dec 2011
                      • 22205

                      #70
                      Originally posted by keithbraidwood View Post
                      I've heard some bad stories about Yodel but personally I've never had anything go wrong. Perhaps I am lucky, I live in a flat so if a neighbour cannot take it in a card is always left and when I reschedule delivery it goes without a hitch. Now if you were talking about Citylink...to have bad service you first have to have service.

                      Anna, it depends which warehouse has the item in stock. Not everything is stocked in each. My local one is Dunfermline in Fife, but I've had items be sent from the balmy south. Your book is too heavy for a standard postman/woman to deliver so it would then go out to Royal Mail, Citylink, Yodel or one of the other couriers Amazon uses. The petition you refer to is highly unlikely to succeed as compared to the sheer number of parcels Yodel delivers, not only via Amazon, the overall service is certainly good or very good.
                      Do they deliver well any Frank Ifield CDs.

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                      • keithbraidwood2

                        #71
                        Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                        Do they deliver well any Frank Ifield CDs.
                        Of course, 'she' taught Frank and he taught the rest. In truth, I had to look that one up. Although this should go on another already active thread, the phrases 'easy listening' and 'country music' turn my teeth.

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                        • Paul Sherratt

                          #72
                          Blimey kb, prejudiced calcified structures ... anyway I didn't trust 'em to deliver my copy of Bart Plantenga's book.
                          So, in a curiuosly old fashioned way, picked it up in a shop !



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                          • Anna

                            #73
                            Originally posted by keithbraidwood View Post
                            The petition you refer to is highly unlikely to succeed as compared to the sheer number of parcels Yodel delivers, not only via Amazon, the overall service is certainly good or very good.
                            Thanks for reassurance. The best courier service via Amazon has been from DPD, I ordered a printer and got an email saying 'Tony will deliver to you Saturday between 3.45 and 4.45pm' and - Tony did, exactly at that time! We shall see if my book moulders in Nantgarw with Yodel!

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                            • keithbraidwood2

                              #74
                              Originally posted by Anna View Post
                              Thanks for reassurance. The best courier service via Amazon has been from DPD, I ordered a printer and got an email saying 'Tony will deliver to you Saturday between 3.45 and 4.45pm' and - Tony did, exactly at that time! We shall see if my book moulders in Nantgarw with Yodel!
                              I agree, DPD have been fantastic. So precise with their timeframe. Once I had an email informing delivery between 13.41 and 14.41. If necessary, complain to Amazon if there is an excessive delay. At the very least you will get the cost of postage, if any, refunded.

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                              • Zauberfloete

                                #75
                                Originally posted by Anna View Post
                                What an odd coincidence about Yodel! I've ordered a book from Amazon, expecting the usual Royal Mail delivery. Instead I find in my confirmation email it is to be delivered by Yodel. It's a hardback, 300+ pages but not exactly 10 volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica is it? I find it started off in Inverclyde, then went to East Kilbride, West Midlands, Wednesbury and is now stuck in Nantgarw where it's advised on tracking information that delays are expected. Normally I wouldn't worry but I see on Amazon there is a petition taking place to stop them using Yodel ..... having read the petition and the horror tales therein and now Zauberfloete's above I'm getting slightly worried that it will either a) be chucked over the fence, b) left on the doorstep in the rain or c) not delivered to next door neighbours as requested by polite note I've pinned to the front door. I'm also worried about the carbon footprint aspect as I understand the two biggest Amazon warehouses nearest to me are Swindon or Swansea, not the wilds of Scotland!
                                Hope you get your stuff OK, Anna.

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