To those UK members - or indeed anywhere else in the world this concern has "stores"- I have a little "breaking news" about the mighty "Argos" - over-priced, "free credit" catalogue sellers with High Street premises in a number of cities.
You may decide, like me, that there is little chance of us giving them any of our lolly anytime soon...... A decision I'd reached years ago, but this just reinforces it.
Walking into town recently, and remembering some blurb or other I'd seen in a paper somewhen, out of sheer noseyness I popped into the Argos I was passing, and looked up "ereader" in their bulging tome of junk, oops, sorry, goods on offer.......
To find two Binatone offerings, at £79.99 & £ 144.99 (yes, that's correct, and the cheapest one was the colour version !), under the delightfully informative heading .......
" An ebook, or ereader as they are sometimes known, is a device ........." etc.. blah blah.
It makes you feel they haven't
quite gone into the subject with too much care, doesn't it - especially as with these particular products, and at these prices, they might well be dipping the wrong toe into too deep a pond with the wrong fishing rod ..... well, you know what I mean.
