The Book People

[laughinggas13.livejournal.com]

The Book People are doing ten Jeeves & Wooster books for £9.99! *blissful grin*

If they haven't sold out by tomorrow, I'm placing my order. They do ship to outside the UK, but they charge something like £12 for it so I don't know if it's worth it...

You get:

• Jeeves in the Offing
• Stiff Upper Lip Jeeves
• The Mating Season
• The Code of the Woosters
• Carry on Jeeves
• Much Obliged Jeeves
• Aunts Aren't Gentlemen
• Right Ho, Jeeves
• Thank You Jeeves
• The Inimitable Jeeves

I've already got a couple of 'em, but since my copy of The Code of the Woosters has mysteriously vanished (all I'm saying is I lent it to my dad and haven't seen it since) and anyway, this gives me an ideal opportunity to force I mean encourage my friends to read them by giving them my duplicates, I don't really mind.

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Comments

[umpteenth-gail.livejournal.com]

Doesn't anyone have local libraries? Membership is free, you know. ☺

[laughinggas13.livejournal.com]

I do have a local library and I love it dearly, but it tends to have 5 copies of new-and-shiny works and hardly anything older than 50 years. Its 'Classic Fiction' section? One shelf.

I have a list as long as my arm of titles I've tried to find there but couldn't. Some of them aren't even in any other libraries in the area. I mean, HP Lovecraft - hardly obscure and unheard of, but not a single copy can I find. [/rant]

[umpteenth-gail.livejournal.com]

Oh, I am sorry! I suppose I forgot what it's like to live in the country, having grown up there. It's different in the city.

I once saw a book exchange site online where people could recycle their books for a very low price or exchange them. I can't remember much about it, but I do recall its members love books and want to share the books they enjoyed with others. It isn't just book exchange, it's reading enthusiasts helping each other.

Perhaps you could find something like this in your area, or even Ebay or Amazon UK or the like? I have found books on Amazon UK that I could not get anywhere else, and the postage was surprisingly reasonable. Of course, we're Commonwealth, so that may make a difference. The postage costs from the USA are so extremely high that I take one look at them and flee.