The second volume of Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair’s in-depth examination of solo McCartney is now only 99p for your electronic reading device.
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Thanks!
Thank you.
👍👍
F*ck, just bought the fairly expensive print version
Cheers!
Just bought! Thanks for the tip off.
I bought it, but it seems wrong to do so. I read somewhere that Amazon sells titles like these as a loss leader: the authors still get their full royalty. I hope so.
Good spot. Thank you very much!
I much prefer real books.
So do I.
Real books become friends on a shelf and are easy to dip into. There’s also the tactile element of turning actual pages and the satisfying creak of a spine. I have a kindle but I hardly ever use it, even on holidays. If I want to read something it has to be ‘real’- preferably in hardback.
Yes I prefer physical books, I was a bookbinder for 32 years after all. But I do like Kindle books as well for the convenience and it’s only 99p as well! I prefer Vinyl and CDs but sometimes it isn’t convenient.
Horses for courses.
I do still love books and have decades worth of the things packed into bookshelves, but I admit, I find myself reading more and more novels on my Kindle/Books apps on the iPad these days.
It’s easier on my eyes (being able to quickly adjust
light/contrast/text size). I like the convenience of deciding to buy a book at 2am when I can’t sleep. It’s addictive, being able to quickly download a sample and taking a punt on books I’d perhaps not otherwise discover. Some ebooks are really well designed and have all sorts of multimedia bits and pieces which can enhance the whole experience. And of course, when you’re travelling, it’s marvellous, having a library in your iPad.
It’s a bit like digital music vs vinyl. I have loads of vinyl but play it less and less these days. I’m not really an audiophile so, hi res streaming does me fine.
I convinced myself for over 20 years that I loved books and acquired a very, very large collection that took up a lot of storage space. I did genuinely like owning them, even though I probably never opened more than about 20% having read them, and there were numerous others I bought but never got around to reading properly. I spent an absolute small fortune on books.
Then, about six years ago, personal circumstances meant I had to get rid of all bar a literal handful of them. I simply no longer had the space to store them. So with great reluctance, I off-loaded some to friends, dumped many with chazzas, even just threw away many into the recycling bin. And it hurt.
For a short while, at least.
Now, though, whilst I do still get a very occasional twinge of regret for what I’ve lost, on the whole I find I genuinely no longer care about them at all. I’m surprised by feeling that way, but it’s actually a very pleasant feeling.
Many thanks for this. 👍