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Old 08-31-2022, 04:46 PM   #481
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That is a very useful definition of Litfic. I always thought literary fiction books were of the type hosted by the 2nd book club on mobilread - which technically might be the truth. Your take on it irons out a lot of confusion that I had.
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Old 08-31-2022, 04:48 PM   #482
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I don't care in the least where I buy a book. If it's an Amazon exclusive, then I'll buy it from Amazon. Doesn't matter to me.
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Old 08-31-2022, 06:52 PM   #483
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This! One thousand times, THIS! It's been increasing in recent months too, even a couple of pre-orders disappeared for this reason.
What happens to the preorder? Do you still get it or is it refunded?
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Old 09-01-2022, 01:26 AM   #484
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What happens to the preorder? Do you still get it or is it refunded?
The pre-order is a hold, no charge is made until the book is released. So it's just cancelled
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Old 09-01-2022, 07:25 PM   #485
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I kind of despise how Kindle Unlimited forces authors to go exclusive. Another book disappeared from my Kobo wishlist because the author switched to KU.
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I don't care in the least where I buy a book. If it's an Amazon exclusive, then I'll buy it from Amazon. Doesn't matter to me.
I don't buy from Amazon. There have been a couple series where I read a few books and then subsequent ebooks were Amazon only. I stopped reading those series.
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I don't care in the least where I buy a book. If it's an Amazon exclusive, then I'll buy it from Amazon. Doesn't matter to me.
It matters to me because at Kobo I can get store credit that saves me money. Their "buy an X-value gift card get X.2 free" helps stretch my limited book buying budget, and so does the Kobo Super Points program. My income varies wildly through the year, with Kobo I can buy store credit when I earn more, and have it available when I see a book I want. With Amazon, I have to have the money available at the time I wish to purchase, no "bank" and no 'rewards' program.
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It matters to me because at Kobo I can get store credit that saves me money. Their "buy an X-value gift card get X.2 free" helps stretch my limited book buying budget, and so does the Kobo Super Points program. My income varies wildly through the year, with Kobo I can buy store credit when I earn more, and have it available when I see a book I want. With Amazon, I have to have the money available at the time I wish to purchase, no "bank" and no 'rewards' program.
Super Points program isn't available in my country and Kobo gift cards aren't sold here either. So for me there isn't any difference where I buy.
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I don't buy from Amazon. There have been a couple series where I read a few books and then subsequent ebooks were Amazon only. I stopped reading those series.
Presumably because you don't want to mess with removing the DRM and converting?
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Old 09-01-2022, 10:21 PM   #489
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It matters to me because at Kobo I can get store credit that saves me money. Their "buy an X-value gift card get X.2 free" helps stretch my limited book buying budget, and so does the Kobo Super Points program. My income varies wildly through the year, with Kobo I can buy store credit when I earn more, and have it available when I see a book I want. With Amazon, I have to have the money available at the time I wish to purchase, no "bank" and no 'rewards' program.
Yeah, that's my main thing too (though my income is fixed rather than fluculating). Also Kobo takes directly from my PayPal account so I don't need to hassle with transferring my survey money to my bank account for debit.
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Presumably because you don't want to mess with removing the DRM and converting?
I don't like Amazon for other reasons. But also I don't mess with DRM and converting.
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It's possible that 'knock [him/her/them] up' is still an idiom meaning 'wake up' in some dialects of British English. At least it was about twenty years ago - I was on a trip and somebody I knew vaguely happened to be on the same trip in the same hotel. She asked me to knock her up in the morning - luckily I guessed what she meant although I hadn't come across the phrase in that context before.

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If I recall correctly, a 'knocker-up' was a person employed by management to ensure shift workers in a factory were woken up in time to arrive for their shift.

And a hare is a common(ish) rabbit-like animal in Europe - 'mad as a March hare', 'jugged hare'.
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If I recall correctly, a 'knocker-up' was a person employed by management to ensure shift workers in a factory were woken up in time to arrive for their shift.

And a hare is a common(ish) rabbit-like animal in Europe - 'mad as a March hare', 'jugged hare'.
A "Knocker up" was certainly employed at least in Victorian era English towns.

Bugs bunny might be a hare. Some "North American" rabbits* are not actually the same thing as the European rabbit that originated in Spain. The Ancient Romans kept them for food. There were hares in Ireland from some time after the last Ice Age but no rabbits or snakes. The Normans brought rabbits to Britain and Ireland in 11th and 12th C. The ancient Romans may have kept rabbits in "England" but obviously not enough escaped to become established till Norman times (1066 and later in England and somewhat later in Ireland).

[* North American Cottontail rabbits show a greater resistance to myxomatosis than European rabbits. Distant "relatives" to European rabbit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottontail_rabbit ]
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And a hare is a common(ish) rabbit-like animal in Europe - 'mad as a March hare', 'jugged hare'.
Okay, wait....


Who is it that we believe, here, doesn't know what a hare is????

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Okay, wait....


Who is it that we believe, here, doesn't know what a hare is????

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Okay, wait....


Who is it that we believe, here, doesn't know what a hare is????

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I certainly remember hearing the story of the Tortoise and the Hare at a young age
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