spidey book club

Post by **FreeBeer** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 11:08 pm

notjarvis wrote:QUOTE (notjarvis @ Jun 24 2011, 10:18 AM) "Salt" By Adam Roberts is an awesome Sci-fi book.

Are they serious? £66.32+ for a paperback?

Bard · Post by **Bard** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 12:13 am

FreeBeer wrote:QUOTE (FreeBeer @ Jun 24 2011, 06:08 PM) Are they serious? £66.32+ for a paperback?

Out of print books are bloody expensive "brand new".

Post by **FreeBeer** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 2:18 am

That's nuts. Books are meant for reading... not placing on a shelf as an ornament. I'm quite happy to buy a previously-read book for $2. Far less risk in case the book is crap (and there's a LOT of that floating around it seems). I'd rather spend my money on important things like hops and barley.

Bard · Post by **Bard** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 2:30 am

FreeBeer wrote:QUOTE (FreeBeer @ Jun 24 2011, 09:18 PM) That's nuts. Books are meant for reading... not placing on a shelf as an ornament. I'm quite happy to buy a previously-read book for $2. Far less risk in case the book is crap (and there's a LOT of that floating around it seems). I'd rather spend my money on important things like hops and barley.

Yes, but there are quite a few books I'd happily pay a great deal more for just because they've been out of print for so long and noone has digital copies on torrent/e-book and I haven't finished the requisite series-es yet.

Of course these are always the ones that are sold out at used book stores and not carried by libraries any more as well because they're "old".

I've been trying to find most of them for well over a decade.

Duckwarrior · Post by **Duckwarrior** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 2:33 am

I am buying agri's recommendation.

Fiction is dead to me.

Pos_21 · Post by **Pos_21** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 11:01 am

Bard wrote:QUOTE (Bard @ Jun 24 2011, 09:30 PM) Yes, but there are quite a few books I'd happily pay a great deal more for just because they've been out of print for so long and noone has digital copies on torrent/e-book and I haven't finished the requisite series-es yet.

Of course these are always the ones that are sold out at used book stores and not carried by libraries any more as well because they're "old".
I've been trying to find most of them for well over a decade.

Do you have a list bard?

We could take a look around

Post by **FreeBeer** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 3:49 pm

Bard wrote:QUOTE (Bard @ Jun 24 2011, 11:30 PM) Of course these are always the ones that are sold out at used book stores and not carried by libraries any more as well because they're "old".
I've been trying to find most of them for well over a decade.

Wanna buy my hardcover copy of The Ringworld Engineers signed by Larry Niven?

HJ_KG · Post by **HJ_KG** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 4:19 pm

Bard · Post by **Bard** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 5:14 pm

FreeBeer wrote:QUOTE (FreeBeer @ Jun 25 2011, 10:49 AM) Wanna buy my hardcover copy of The Ringworld Engineers signed by Larry Niven?

You know, I think he must have done a mass-signing of ringworld books at some point because I think one of mine is rather sloppily scrawled in and I got it for $0.25 at a garage sale.

Eris wrote:QUOTE (Eris @ Jun 25 2011, 06:01 AM) Do you have a list bard?

We could take a look around

I'll see if I can dig it up - I think it's somewhere with the checkbook I used on my last trip toUncle Hugo's.

Post by **FreeBeer** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 5:54 pm

Bard wrote:QUOTE (Bard @ Jun 25 2011, 02:14 PM) You know, I think he must have done a mass-signing of ringworld books at some point because I think one of mine is rather sloppily scrawled in and I got it for $0.25 at a garage sale.

Cool. The one I have is lightly personalized ("To Fred, Larry Niven"). Fred got it at a book signing or possibly fancon (IIRC) in Toronto. Fred gave it to me as a birthday present.

But you're probably right - reading some of Niven's various essays and other editorial works, I infer that he attends a LOT of conventions. Thus his autograph can hardly be considered rare.