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Originally Posted by lochutus
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I don't have a problem with saying g'day and I certainly used it when I was overseas and wanted people to know I was Australian (as opposed to American or British or whatever). I don't talk 'strine though  |
I talk strine online when I can get away with it.
"G'day" is, however, part of my standard, subconscious, vocabulary, and not an affectation. I think it's mostly because all other forms of greeting feel wrong in my mouth (funnily enough, like affectations).
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(probably not from dymocks though. bugger me they are expensive for ebooks. )
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...and incompetent for everything else...but that's another rant, and one I've already had elsewhere.
(Incidentally, kudos for the "bugger me" - that's a karma-score if ever I saw one
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I naively thought ebooks would be significantly cheaper than printed versions. You live and you learn.
cheers
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The good thing is that you can look elsewhere and internationally. I bought Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" and if I recall correctly, though
each of the paper books would have cost about AUS$25, all six I think cost less than or close to that in total. So, sometimes it's significantly cheaper, but it made me suspect that this was more often applicable to "back-catalogue" rather than "new release".
Fictionwise and Books on Board are the ones oft-quoted as being the cheapest (Fictionwise have a subscription and point-scoring model that lets you get stuff even cheaper). I'd give them a look-see before the Mobipocket bookstore itself (Mobipocket are a wholesaler as well, so, as someone pointed out, it's not in their best interests to undermine their retailers - like Fictionwise and Books On Board - on price).
Cheers,
Marc