(urth) The Perils of Partnership

[António Pedro Marques]

These days I only get 'used' stuff from the amazon marketplace if 'new' 
isn't available or the price just doesn't allow - good luck finding a new 
hardcover of 
http://www.amazon.com/New-Testament-Apocrypha-Vol-Apocalypses/dp/0664218792 
! As a rule I don't buy from amazon itself. I hate amazon. Amazon bought 
Stanza only so it could terminate it and then released an iOS5 update which 
doesn't work on iOS4 but is pushed to iOS4 devices anyway*. All to eliminate 
competition for the Kindle, and how come Kindle for iOS today is still far 
behind 2008's Stanza where it comes to usefulness.

(*) If you still have your binary of the previous Stanza in your hard drive 
then you can easily undo the 'upgrade' with iFunBox, but you'll have to take 
care not to allow it to be 'upgraded' again, which is a chore. The IPA has 
to be yours or the device jailbroken, otherwise no luck.

My first Gene Wolfe book was 'used', and how.  I almost got afraid of 
getting some disease from it. Once I'd finished it, I bought a new one. 
Sometimes I stay at small camping parks or the like and leave such 
duplicates there in the community library.

Fred Kiesche wrote (22-03-2012 15:38):
> Following up: If anybody would like one of these (as I get my actual real
> live NEW copies that are NEW), let me know. Or two. Or all three. First
> come, first served.
>
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Fred Kiesche <godelescherbach at gmail.com
> <mailto:godelescherbach at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Greetings:
>     Just got my first three replacement copies of my missing Wolfe's:
>     Innocents Abroad, Starwater Strains, and Strange Travellers--all short
>     story collections in case any of the titles in these are on the May Is
>     Gene Wolfe Shorts Month project.
>     Annoyed as they are all ex-library books: which the Amazon "partner" did
>     not mention in his/her description. I did not pay a lot, and these are
>     all fine "reading copies", but given a choice between a ex-library book
>     with stickers, mylar wrap and stamps and things inside...and a actual
>     "new" copy without any of that, I'll choose the new one.
>     Am I a cranky book collector or what?
>
>     --
>     F.P. Kiesche III "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book.
>     Always, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on
>     being presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman
>     Empire.) Blogging at The Lensman's Children
>     (http://theeternalgoldenbraid.blogspot.com/).
>
>
>
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> F.P. Kiesche III "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always,
> scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on being
> presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.)
> Blogging at The Lensman's Children (http://theeternalgoldenbraid.blogspot.com/).
>
>
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