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Aug. 5th, 2010 02:23 pm
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Where can I buy a copy of Winterfair Gifts without buying Miles in Love?

Where would you recommend I start my parents on Bujold? I am convinced they'd like them, but my mother seems never to have read any SF, and my father seems virulently allergic to it. They are otherwise open-minded readers who like Patrick O'Brien and Sayers, and I'm convinced they'd like Bujold if only they could open it in the first place. Would Komarr be impractical for my mother, who enjoys Heyer?

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Seen in a remaindered bookshop at lunchtime, a book on Finnish cooking. I let it stay remaindered - any book that thinks beestings is commonly obtainable anywhere there's dairy farming (hands up if you are not a dairy farmer and have ever heard of it) is not a book that I want to rely on serving me edible food.

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Date: 2010-08-05 05:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com
I don't have any ebooks, but it is a lot cheaper than the volume of short stories no-one reads. Can I print an ebook out?

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Date: 2010-08-05 09:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shimgray.livejournal.com
Good question; they claim the PDF is set up to suppress printing (why? why? grr.), and I don't have a printer actually connected to this machine to check.

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Date: 2010-08-06 03:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com
That doesn't attract - I don't have an ereader and I don't want something stuck on screen forever (not least because one hears of access to ebooks being cancelled, not something I want when I've paid for it).

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Date: 2010-08-06 10:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shimgray.livejournal.com
I've discovered that I can print-to-PDF from, er, the PDF, which suggests that at least under linux the copy-protection is a bit crap. No idea whether or not it actually works on anything else!

Would you like me to send you a copy of it to play with, and how it works out? (You can always then choose to pay them the two pounds if you feel it's worth it...)

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Date: 2010-08-10 05:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com
That would be much appreciated! I am happy to pay them for it, as long as I can get it in a form that I can read and keep - and an ebook sounds much better than the volume, which is not coming up cheap for one story. Email address is ninevehuk @ gmail.com

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