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Originally Posted by Fluribus
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The second volume has been marked way, way down a time or two in the past; I picked it up on one of those occasions.
FYI--if you have one or more copies missing in a
hardcopy set of three or four volumes, it is called a "broken set." I don't know if there is a term or expression for the absence of one volume of a two-volume set. It may be that way in the
ebook business, too--I just don't know.
I have never seen Volume 1, of the ebook in question, marked down, but I'm going to try to go to
ereaderiq.com, in a few minutes, to check the price history of the tome.
I'm also going to check the prices in the
hardcopy used book market for it, in a few minutes. (Please keep this a secret--but there is bound to be a much cheaper copy there than $40! I think. I may give in to my passions and lusts, and buy a hardcopy, in order to have a complete set. Oh, I am so weak! I'm so ashamed of myself!
).
A question: if you have a
hardcopy set, one or more of the volumes are missing, and you replace it with a
digital copy, what is the word or expression for the resulting set? I don't know of one! I think that "mixed marriage" would be a good one, but that still has some "baggage" associated with it. MobileReaders, would you please make some suggestions, and post it (If we get any, I'm sure that I'll need to have a mod move the discussion to a different forum, and/or subforum, and/or thread)? There is no physical award for the winner, just the knowledge that you'll have that you've made the world a better place.
That is unless the word or expression has never been used before (for that use?), and you file the term or expression with the copyright office. Then you might be able to make royalties for every time that it is used in an advertisement and such like. Maybe. You might be filthy rich!!! BTW--whoever you are, I consider you a very dear friend.
