What have you recently purchased?

smudge · **#261** by **smudge** » Jan 22, 2012 9:11 am

Agrippina wrote:I got three freebies from Audible.com. So I chose these:

The Modern Scholar: Wars That Made the Western World 8:02:49 Timothy Shutt Audiobooks

I listened to the Wars That Made The Western World one a while back. Super stuff!
I vaguely remember a couple of niggles: I think Shutt makes a really stoopid comment regarding WW11 (and it's participants) at one point....and he makes a notably pro Christian comment on another....But still, a great series of lectures on a period that I find endlessly fascinating.

Agrippina · **#262** by **Agrippina** » Jan 22, 2012 1:28 pm

Its on the list. I also downloaded a freebie from the iStore on the new iBook format. That is so nice. They're going to produce textbooks with interactive material and videos etc in them. This one is EO Wilson's Life on Earth. Very nice, it has a spoken introduction and then some pages with videos. I think it's just a demo model, I haven't really examined it but it's opened the door to an interesting new way to create books. Except of course, I won't be able to buy them because our stupid government won't allow us to buy books from Apple except the free ones. So even if I create my own iBooks, I won't be able to download them from the iStore or sell them in SA, so I'll just give away freebies to my friends here or something.

I'll get around to listening to some of those once I get the jobs I have to do over the next month sorted out. I want to listen to some of the research material I have to go through.

j.mills · **#263** by **j.mills** » Jan 22, 2012 2:13 pm

Agrippina wrote:Except of course, I won't be able to buy them because our stupid government won't allow us to buy books from Apple except the free ones.

Wot's the story, Aggie?

Agrippina · **#264** by **Agrippina** » Jan 22, 2012 3:31 pm

j.mills wrote:
Agrippina wrote:Except of course, I won't be able to buy them because our stupid government won't allow us to buy books from Apple except the free ones.

Wot's the story, Aggie?

Apple refuse to charge us the duty on books, music, movies and games, so they're not allowed to let us buy those from them. They want to charge one price to everybody, our corrupt government wants us to pay R50 for a song instead of R8, which is the price charged to everyone else. And books, we have to pay almost three times as much for downloaded books. If a book costs $7 i.e. R55, we pay over R200 for it, so the government gets the 200% for some trumped up charge from the provider, which is why South Africans are avid downloaders of torrents. I brought books back from the UK, I paid £8 (+R100) for them, when I looked for the same books in an SA bookstore they were priced at over R300. To buy from the iStore, we get around it with an overseas address and Paypal. But then we have to cancel everything we've bought on our SA account. So I'd lose a whole lot of apps I've bought from them or rebuy them if I cancel my SA account. Damn cheek.

Agrippina · **#265** by **Agrippina** » Jan 22, 2012 3:33 pm

What do you pay for DVDs, CDs in Europe/US/Aus? Depending on the age of the media.
Look at these prices, remember these are "sale" prices http://www.musica.co.za/

It's not only books. My Macbook that I'm using now, I bought it for R3000 less in the UK than what I would've paid for the same thing in SA.

j.mills · **#266** by **j.mills** » Jan 22, 2012 8:49 pm

Well, if you will go making your currency out of GOLD! :grin:

Heh, I wasn't expecting Apple to be the good guys in that story.

Wiðercora · **#267** by **Wiðercora** » Jan 23, 2012 1:32 pm

Darmaid MacCulloch's Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700, Kindle edition.

I think Kindles are so good
I would marry my kindle - if I only I could

I can carry hundreds of books on a little computer
Being able to read what I want when I want,
Makes for a very happy commuter.

Wiðercora · **#268** by **Wiðercora** » Jan 25, 2012 12:55 pm

The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry, Kindle Edition
Michael Morpurgo's Private Peaceful, Kindle edition
On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho, Kindle edition

smudge · **#269** by **smudge** » Jan 29, 2012 8:09 pm

Just ordered the third volume of Hal Fosters Prince Valiant newspaper strips along with two Marvel Essential collections (Ditko Spidey + Kirby Thor).

Also recently bought Charles Freeman's The Closing of The Western Mind; The Rise of Faith and The Fall of Reason.
Game of Thrones Book One of Songs of Fire and Ice....
Hell, everyone else seems to be reading George RR Martin! I'd better find out what the fuss is about!

Darkchilde · **#270** by **Darkchilde** » Jan 30, 2012 10:13 am

I just bought for Kindle for iPad the following:

Straight to Hell (Lillith Straight #1): Well, it's paranormal romance, and I liked the premise, plus it was just $1.99. It also has good reviews.
Corpus pretereo : I bought this because it features an acquaintance of mine, and he usually writes quite well.

Other than that, I also bought "The Inflationary universe" by Alan J. Guth, for 2 reasons: first one, I wanted to read this book for a while now, and secondly, it is recommended reading for my Astronomy course. So, I bought it as a paperback.

Wiðercora · **#271** by **Wiðercora** » Feb 02, 2012 2:24 pm

Omg.

Omg, omg.

The Edge Chronicles has been released on Kindle (well, most of them. Well, half of them).

:yay:

*Buys*

MoonLit · **#272** by **MoonLit** » Feb 08, 2012 3:11 am

Decided to use up my B&N gift card I had gotten for Christmas! While I already have the Nook ST, I'm going to be getting myself the Nook Tablet so I can use it for my textbooks, manga and comics.

Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman
The Dark Side of Love by Anthea Bell (Translator), Rafik Schami
Generation Dead, Kiss of Life, and Passing Strange (Generation Dead Series) by Daniel Waters
Bleach: Volume 1 - 19 by Tite Kubo (I'm really excited for this! Once I get my Nook Tablet that is. Can't read them atm! lol)

j.mills · **#273** by **j.mills** » Feb 08, 2012 5:57 pm

Well, my mates got me a kindle, yay. So I hastily tossed onto it (steady):

Three Men On The Bummel
Gulliver's Travels
Caleb Williams
3 x William Hope Hodgson
The Gods Of Pegana (Dunsany)
Tom Jones
The Golden Bowl
Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
Connecticut Yankee...
and some poetry - most of which is poorly formatted, which seems to be the norm. :roll:

All the above are freebies of course, as I'm a cheapskate. :grin:

(Which is why I'm making a sleeve for the thing instead of paying £20+ for some rip-off flap of plastic.)

Wiðercora · **#274** by **Wiðercora** » Feb 09, 2012 9:56 pm

I paid £30 for my leather Kindle cover. Worth it. It's all eco-friendly like.

gleniedee · **#275** by **gleniedee** » Feb 09, 2012 11:57 pm

Most recent big purchase: new PC (I broke the HDD on the old one)

The new one is an Acer Aspire,model Z561 all-in-one;

Features include:

intel CORE i7 processor (2.88 Ghz)

8G BRAM

2TB Hard Drive

Nvidia GE Force graphics card

Touch screen

Full HD monitor

Built in TV tuner

Bluray player and burner.

8 USB ports

Windows 7 Home premium.

I've had it for three months and am so pleased with it I could just shit.

Fallible · **#276** by **Fallible** » Feb 09, 2012 11:58 pm

j.mills · **#277** by **j.mills** » Feb 10, 2012 12:58 am

Wiðercora wrote:I paid £30 for my leather Kindle cover. Worth it. It's all eco-friendly like.

Eco-friendly?! Hacked off the side of a cow? :nono:

Think how much carbon displacement that £30 could have bought! MINE's eco-friendly: it's made from an old duster stitched around panels from a DVD case - all waste materials already in my home, thus zero carbon footprint. :tongue2:

(Also it's yellow. :dopey:

)

Fallible · **#278** by **Fallible** » Feb 10, 2012 11:20 am

Yellow??

j.mills · **#279** by **j.mills** » Feb 10, 2012 5:49 pm

Wot's wrong with yellow? Smileys are yellow. :dopey:

Homer Simpson is yellow. Custard is yellow. Can you name one bad thing that is yellow? Apart from piss. And pus.

mraltair · **#280** by **mraltair** » Feb 10, 2012 6:52 pm

j.mills wrote:Wot's wrong with yellow? Smileys are yellow. Homer Simpson is yellow. Custard is yellow. Can you name one bad thing that is yellow? Apart from piss. And pus.

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