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[Gibbo]

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[JSWolf]

If you are not a club member and you want the Narnia books, get them from Cyberread. Using the code THKU08 you get 50% off and all you have to pay up front is 50%. The total cost for all 7 mobipocket eBook will be $28 with no need for micropay.

[HarryT]

Just bought them all from FictionWise - the total amount is $23.73 for all seven for "club" members, including the MicroPay rebate.

They are very nicely done, and include all the original illustrations, which I certainly hadn't been expecting! Highly recommended!

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Just bought them all from FictionWise - the total amount is $23.73 for all seven for "club" members, including the MicroPay rebate.

They are very nicely done, and include all the original illustrations, which I certainly hadn't been expecting! Highly recommended!

Yes they are quite nice and the illustrations are not too small. And we have nice covers too.

[HarryT]

HarperCollins do seem to do nice eBooks. Their Agatha Christie books are very well produced, too.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by HarryT

HarperCollins do seem to do nice eBooks. Their Agatha Christie books are very well produced, too.

I'd have to disagree with that for a few of them. For example, I found Partners in Crime to have a problem with the quotes. They used apostrophes in pace of quotes.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I'd have to disagree with that for a few of them. For example, I found Partners in Crime to have a problem with the quotes. They used apostrophes in pace of quotes.

Do you mean a single quote instead of a double quote for speech? That is a not-uncommon thing to do. My printed "Complete works of Dickens" does it, for example - single quotes for speech, and double quotes for speech quoted within speech. It's just an alternate way of doing it.

[Robotech_Master]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Do you mean a single quote instead of a double quote for speech? That is a not-uncommon thing to do. My printed "Complete works of Dickens" does it, for example - single quotes for speech, and double quotes for speech quoted within speech. It's just an alternate way of doing it.

More precisely, it's the British way of doing it. It's not at all unusual for British books to have single-quotes for the main dialogue.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by Robotech_Master

More precisely, it's the British way of doing it. It's not at all unusual for British books to have single-quotes for the main dialogue.

Hmmm. I'm not I'd agree with you that it's the "British" way. The overwhelming majority of British books use double quotes for speech, and that the way that I was taught was the "normal" way too in a British school. Perhaps it was once a common British practice, which has since fallen out of favour? That might explain why authors like Dickens and old Agatha Christie books use it?

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Perhaps it was once a common British practice, which has since fallen out of favour? That might explain why authors like Dickens and old Agatha Christie books use it?

I think it may also be an "old" way of doing things. Back on old manual typewriters the only way to type a "double quote" was to type the quote character twice. I actually learned this way when I took typing in High School. Using single quote was faster to type and saved time. Also, it used two less monospaced characters on the line.

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[HarryT]

Whatever the origin of it is, I think it's sufficiently common that we can safely say that its use is not "wrong", even if it's not the "standard usage" of today.

[JSWolf]

It may not be wrong, but it looks just way too odd. I did convert the quotes so it looks normal to me.