08-05-2008, 11:03 AM | #16 |
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Harry's comments and the awards this translation has received motivate me to read this. Alas, it's not available in a format for my Reader. Come on, Sony, catch up! Penguin is pushing all of their products to ebooks for their customers. So why aren't you actively working with such publishers to get them in a format for your customers?
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08-05-2008, 12:11 PM | #17 |
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I think it's one of those things where if it's forced upon you in school, you hate it, whereas if you're learning it out of interest, as an adult, it's a lot more interesting. I wasn't taught Latin in school - I started learning it, purely for interests sake, myself about 5 years ago, and now (even though I say so myself) I'm pretty fluent in it and able to read more or less any Latin author, which is very satisfying. Virgil's "Aeneid" is, I think, my very favourite Latin text - it's just such a wonderful poem.
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08-14-2008, 06:55 AM | #18 |
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Hey, that Fictionwise mob are canny buggers. I just bought the Chambers Dictionary I've been intending to buy for some time. It cost me $50, but with $38.50 worth of "Micropay Rebates". Now, you see, I've been wanting to buy Harrap's Shorter French-English Dictionary too, and, well, then, this "Deluxe" Penguin ebook of The Odyssey comes along, and, gees, will you look at that the "Micropay Rebates" come to almost exactly the total cost of those last two, effectively giving them to me for free with the $50 Chambers.
So now I've also now got an account with them, and a small amount of "Micropay Rebates" that is going to sit there burning a virtual hole in my pocket. I wonder what else I might want.... Sly mongrels, that mob. Cheers, Marc |
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08-22-2008, 07:20 PM | #20 |
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I've added the book to my wishlist. Which seems to just get bigger and bigger.. After discovering the ebook device I have rediscovered books.
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08-24-2008, 02:35 PM | #21 |
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08-26-2008, 10:47 AM | #23 | |
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One of the things I most regret in life was not taking the opportunity to learn Latin when I was in school. How did you start learning it - was it a course, or book, or what? Irene |
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08-26-2008, 11:42 AM | #24 | |
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anyone have a clue why there's such a price difference between the left/right editions of this book on BoB?
http://www.booksonboard.com/index.ph...06971&v=buynow |
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The Fagles' translations are amazing...
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05-27-2009, 08:24 PM | #28 |
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Oh, btw: the Fagles translation of the Aeneid is (currently?) only 6$ at eBooks.com.
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The way I look at it is, if I bought a pbook and had to tear the pages out one by one in order to read it, it's my book, it's my choice if I need to effectively destroy it to read it. I've bought the rights to read it, and may do so in whatever way I need to. So, if I buy an ebook, I've bought the rights to read it, and can do what I need to, to do so. I don't see any reason to let a format issue stop me after I've paid my money. And this is a good deal at Fictionwise right now, I'll be getting it this weekend, I think. Thanks for the reccomendation, HarryT! This is one I've been meaning to read, and I probably would've ended up getting a pd version. |
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