(top-posted for Brian)

Heh. trained squirrels

They're about to start using drones for deliveries in America - from Ars
Technica:

quote
"So Prime Air is a future delivery service that will get packages to
customers within 30 minutes of them ordering it online at Amazon.com,"
he told Yahoo News. "The goals we've set for ourselves a The range
has to be over 10 miles. These things will weigh about 55 pounds each,
but they'll be able to deliver parcels that weigh up to five pounds. It
turns out that the vast majority of the things we sell at Amazon weigh
less than five pounds."
/quote

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2...air-drones-to-
carry-5lb-packages-over-10-miles-in-30-minutes/



En el artículo , Brian Gaff
escribió:
Ah yes, they are very good at that sort of thing. Not sure how they do it,
but a friend suspects they are using trained squirrels.
Brian

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Ordered a USB stick from Amazon yesterday. Anticipated delivery
tomorrow (Tue). Tracking page concurs.

Get an email: "your package will be delivered today"

Potter about doing nothing much.

Another email: "your package has been posted through your letterbox"

And sure enough, there it is. Hadn't even heard the flap go.

From stealth ninjas to stealth deliveries...

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On 19/01/2016 09:41, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 15:35:14 +0000, dennis@home wrote:

If you have prime then you can elect to have a slow delivery and get a
£1 credit. This pays for prime if you read kindle books. Frequently they
deliver next day even when you go for a slow delivery.

Interesting, but it takes a lot of orders to get the £78 back... The
biggest drawback with Prime is that it comes with the totally
unwanted movies/music/books/photo ********. Wish there was an option
for the old £30 just free next day delivery service. Had that
(accidentally) for a year just before they added the ******** and
doubled the price. At £30 it was good but not at £78.


It depends on what you want.
Over the xmas period my daughter got £58 to spend on kindle books and
about £50 to spend on music/video. She and the wife would have spent the
kindle money anyway and she download some music that she wouldn't have
bought. This was because they did an offer where you got £3 back for
each delivery instead of the usual £1.

Every item she ordered was done one order at a time to maximise the returns.

I use the same account for my stuff but I seldom get the credit as much
of my stuff isn't from Amazon.

On 19/01/2016 09:25, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 14:51:17 +0000, JoeJoe wrote:

I totally agree that Amazon's "free" delivery is pants -

Was fine just before Christmas, stuff seemed to picked and packed
before your finger had left the mouse button after clicking "Order".
B-)

Not so good now, ordered some things in the wee small hours of Sunday
morning. 1000 Monday morning notification from the market place
seller that their stuff had been "disptached". So far nothing from
Amazon other than the order confirmation...

I am certain that they intentionally delay deliveries to try and tempt
you to sign for Prime.

They probably have a priority system in the order processing queue,
free delivery starts low and every so ofen gets an automatic review
bumping up the priority as the last posting date approaches.
certainly once stuff has been picked and packed the transit time is
the same.

Wether you class that sort of things as "intentional" or just a side
effect of good order processing management is debateable.



If its amazon market place are you sire amazon are shipping it?

On Monday, 18 January 2016 17:55:54 UTC+1, wrote:
On Monday, 18 January 2016 16:40:14 UTC, Tim Watts wrote:
Who remembers posting off the little order coupon from a newspaper or
magazine for something and "waiting 28 days" in the 70's?

Yup.

And it not coming at all, because the firm had gone bust or disappeared,
which seemed to happen a lot.

There was no easy way of knowing that Messrs Techno-Tat was actually
operating out of a shoebox for letters in a tobacconist's.

Yehbut - Techno-Tat.com can now operate out of a shoebox for letters in
a tobacconist's ... in down-town Shanghai.

On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 08:44:42 +0000, PeterC
wrote:


my last delivery from 7dayshop was for 9 items and they arrived in 7 lots. I
suspect it's so they'll go through most doors, as the VAT reason has gone.

Isn't 7dayshop now a marketplace? (Used to buy film from them when it
was VAT free, delivered in £18 chunks.)

On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 14:32:53 +0000, Roger Mills
wrote:


I had one (an SSD) posted through the letterbox yesterday. I saw the van
arrive, and went to the door expecting to have to sign for it - but it
was poking through the letterbox and the delivery man was walking away.

I ordered it on Wednesday - for free delivery, having had to run the
usual gauntlet of avoiding signing up for a free trial of Prime, or
opting to pay extra for next day delivery which they try to sneak in
while you're not looking. The scheduled delivery date was Thursday 21st.
On Friday, I got an email saying that it it had been dispatched, and on
Sunday another one saying it was out for delivery.

That's the second item I've bought from Amazon recently which has been
delivered way earlier than their initial estimate. Can't help feeling
that they quote long delivery times in order to try to con you into
paying extra to get it sooner - whereas it comes pretty quickly with
free delivery anyway!

My guess is that bumped up the pecking order when a van loaded with
paid-for despatch items is about to go out with spare space.
Over the last month or so, incidentally, I've received Amazon items
delivered by own-van, Royal Mail and a carrier (DPD I think). There
must be a lot of clever stuff going on in their algorithms.

On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 12:15:34 +0000, dennis@home wrote:

Not so good now, ordered some things in the wee small hours of
Sunday
morning. 1000 Monday morning notification from the market place
seller that their stuff had been "disptached". So far nothing from
Amazon other than the order confirmation...

If its amazon market place are you sire amazon are shipping it?

Order was across "sold and fulfilled by amazon" and "sold and
fullfied by market place seller". It's the market place seller that
has marked their items as dispatched. Still nothing from amazon for
their items.

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On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 12:29:02 GMT, pamela wrote:

On 10:07 19 Jan 2016, charles wrote:

In article , PeterC
wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 23:15:34 GMT, pamela wrote:

On 20:32 18 Jan 2016, Sam Plusnet wrote:

In article ,
says...
I don't like those deliveries which arrive in dribs and drabs.

Last week I rang a retailer in the Channel Islands (where
7DayShop is based) to ask if a large order for health supplements
which I was placing could be delivered in one package. The
answer was no.

This article mentions an £18 limit to qualify for tax exemption
which may be part of the explanation.

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2010/dec/09/online-
shopping-vat-channel-islands

I believe that "loophole" was closed in 2012/3.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-17563620


Interesting. In that case, I wonder why so many companies choose
to supply goods to the UK from the Channel islands.

Also - why they still don't want to group together all the goods
into one delivery?

my last delivery from 7dayshop was for 9 items and they arrived in 7
lots. I suspect it's so they'll go through most doors, as the VAT
reason has gone.

alo because thye don't seem to have on central warehouse. I've had
deliveries from the UK, two sources, as well as the Netherlands.

On the other hand, I asked for my goods to be sent in a single package
but was told no.

So my delivery came in several parts and all arrived on the same day.
They came from a single warehouse.

It would have been cheaper and more convenient to send the items as a
single package but, for some reason unrelated to the number of
warehouses involved, they didn't.

It's human rationality vs. computer logic - computer says FO!
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On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 14:44:11 +0000, Peter Johnson wrote:

On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 08:44:42 +0000, PeterC
wrote:


my last delivery from 7dayshop was for 9 items and they arrived in 7 lots. I
suspect it's so they'll go through most doors, as the VAT reason has gone.

Isn't 7dayshop now a marketplace? (Used to buy film from them when it
was VAT free, delivered in £18 chunks.)

Seems to be - see Pamela's post - I'd forgotten about the multiple sources.
'spose it's the only way now that the VAT is now applied.
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whilst religions hold sway

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On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 23:15:34 +0000, pamela wrote:

On 20:32 18 Jan 2016, Sam Plusnet wrote:

In article ,
says...
I don't like those deliveries which arrive in dribs and drabs.

Last week I rang a retailer in the Channel Islands (where 7DayShop is
based) to ask if a large order for health supplements which I was
placing could be delivered in one package. The answer was no.

This article mentions an £18 limit to qualify for tax exemption which
may be part of the explanation.

http://www.theguardian.com/business/...-shopping-vat-
channel-islands


I believe that "loophole" was closed in 2012/3.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-17563620


Interesting. In that case, I wonder why so many companies choose to
supply goods to the UK from the Channel islands.

Also - why they still don't want to group together all the goods into
one delivery?

I'd hazard a guess they haven't invested in systems capable of such.

One feature Amazon is missing, (unless they've introduced it since I last
noticed it's absence) is to aggregate a list of second hand books, and
see if they are available from a *single source*. Because buying 10 £0.10
books from 10 different sources with £3 postage on each isn't going to
happen. But a £1 order with £5 postage might.

It would be worth suggesting it again, they are making massive
changes to their system right now and it's vastly improved. Not
only can you see only the operations that will ship to your location,
you can see the shipping cost in the hit list and can even sort the
results without having to specify the category now.

Also (and I emailed them years ago about this) it would be nice to add
things to your wishlist from the search results directly.

Interesting. How good is the selection of kindle books ?
Superficially none of the kindle books I am likely to buy
are included. One obvious example is Evelyn Waugh's
travel books which I can't get using torrents and which
have rather silly prices for their kindle versions, much
more than the physical books.


I'm sure some of his travel stuff was free on FeedBooks

On 18/01/2016 2:06 PM, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
JoeJoe wrote:
Whilst I am definitely no fan of their tax avoidance tactic or the way
they treat their employees, this is exactly the reason why I tend to buy
from them - customer service at a level that is considered standard in
the US, but is still almost unheard of here in the UK (John Lewis is one
exception).

You're joking, aren't you? Standard delivery times in the UK seem to be
something only dreamt about in the US - unless you pay through the nose.

BTW, John Lewis 'free' delivery is a lot slower than many.



Well, Since Oct 2015, I have completely turned around my view of 'fast
delivery'. I ma now quite happy to wait the week that something might
take to get to me.

Having been in construction since 78, either, building or hard
landscaping, I was shocked to experience work inside distribution
warehouses.

while being an all-round healthy form of work which, did me a whole
lot of good, the pressure to maximise throughput was ugly. Personal
targets (without reward) meant that avoiding some duties, in order to
perform, meant chaos ensued.

In the last month I was on a system that isolated me from the people
immediately around me. 8 hours of very little communication else you
upset the 'voicette'. Controllers who did not mix and know what was
going on -other than 3 good ones who actually worked to make things
easier for the labour pool-.

The, very strict, 30 minute break was a sombre atmosphere. The crowd
all being agency workers, bemoaned the competitive pressure that would
come from the agency rep who would remind us of our target failures

Being told, after being in the building 30+ minutes and kitting up and
then, reporting at he Control point near a qtr mile inside the store,
that I will not be needed today.

Nah, I don't want to be responsible for putting the distributors of my
community through that stress. I'll wait, and, if at all possible, I
will make that known to the supplier.


I got too much to say about this subject, I will leave it there.

But, it is true that it is healthy work. It did me a lot of good
walking 8 miles a day with a bit of lifting here and there. And, I want
to get back into it. There are forward thinking agencies out there that
do deploy the method of 'workforce first'. I'm gonna find one.


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"Jonno" wrote in message ...

Royal Mail are pricing themselves out of the parcel market. I was asked
to post a 3kg parcel by 2nd class post yesterday. RM wanted £13.75. I
can get a courier to do next day for around £7.

The courier who may promise to do next day for around £7
can only do so because they're simply agents who farm out
the work to self employed drivers using their own cars and vans
often as a second job. Many of whom won't be properly
insured and are working for peanuts.

Which is why when the parcel goes missing more often than
not each of the parties involved will all try and pass the
buck and disclaim any responsibility


As to Amazon Logistics as I explained on here before
they're not owned by Amazon but are self employed
drivers or small outfits using their own vans which
are painted with Amazon livery.
If you still don't want to believe me then here's their
recruitment ad

https://logistics.amazon.co.uk
quote

Does it cost anything to become a delivery provider for Amazon?
No, but if you join the programme, you'll need to provide delivery vehicles, driver and
safety training programmes, and insurance coverage. If you're a professional delivery
business, it's likely that you already have everything you need/quote

Delivery is a cut throat business. "City Link" - who used self
employed drivers using their own vans - were Amazon's biggest
"delivery partner"; before they went bust just before Chrismas
2104 owing tens of thousands to the drivers.

Amazon and Beezos didn't get where they are today by
writing off capital by investing in a cut throat business
like deliveries when there are plenty of mugs around
all too happy to fight each other for that particular
priviledge.

Although its obviously not in anyone's interests
Amazons or their "partners" to shout it from the rooftops.


michael adams

....

"Roger Mills" wrote in message
...
Can't help feeling that they quote long delivery times in order to try to con you into
paying extra to get it sooner - whereas it comes pretty quickly with free delivery
anyway!

No. They quote long delivery times so that when the item turns
up early you'll get a nice surprise. Basically it vomit
"enhances the customer experience"/vomit without costing them
any extra.

A secondary benefit is that it covers their arses in the
event of something going wrong with the delivery. One
instance might be where a customer has an ambiguous
delivery address for instance.


michael adams

....

stuart noble wrote

Interesting. How good is the selection of kindle books ?
Superficially none of the kindle books I am likely to buy
are included. One obvious example is Evelyn Waugh's
travel books which I can't get using torrents and which
have rather silly prices for their kindle versions, much
more than the physical books.

I'm sure some of his travel stuff was free on FeedBooks

None of his books at all there currently, free or otherwise.

On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 12:13:36 +0000, dennis@home wrote:

Interesting, but it takes a lot of orders to get the £78 back...
The
biggest drawback with Prime is that it comes with the totally
unwanted movies/music/books/photo ********. Wish there was an
option
for the old £30 just free next day delivery service. Had that
(accidentally) for a year just before they added the ******** and
doubled the price. At £30 it was good but not at £78.

It depends on what you want.
Over the xmas period my daughter got £58 to spend on kindle books and
about £50 to spend on music/video. She and the wife would have spent the
kindle money anyway and she download some music that she wouldn't have
bought. This was because they did an offer where you got £3 back for
each delivery instead of the usual £1.

Even at £3 back per order that's 26 orders, I very much doubt I make
26 qualifying amazon orders per year.

Every item she ordered was done one order at a time to maximise the
returns.

Probably do order more than 26 items but like you a significant
number are market place. TBH I'm Surprised they don't spot that and
have a condition that disqualifies you from the discout.

Oh I've had an email from Amazon, one of their items has been
dispatched, arrival Tuesday. Good grief, is it coming by carrier? ie
some one is walking carrying it?

No tracking info (yet?) carrier is "DP", presumably DPD? If it is DPD
I'd expect it on or before Friday.

Third item, also amazon, will be "dispatched soon".

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On 19/01/2016 22:55, Rod Speed wrote:
stuart noble wrote
Interesting. How good is the selection of kindle books ?
Superficially none of the kindle books I am likely to buy
are included. One obvious example is Evelyn Waugh's
travel books which I can't get using torrents and which
have rather silly prices for their kindle versions, much
more than the physical books.

I'm sure some of his travel stuff was free on FeedBooks

None of his books at all there currently, free or otherwise.

Well, put it this way, I've just downloaded an Epub of Waugh in
Abyssinia from there via the Calibre software, and there are plenty more
of his to choose from. Just saying...

"stuart noble" wrote in message
...
On 19/01/2016 22:55, Rod Speed wrote:
stuart noble wrote
Interesting. How good is the selection of kindle books ?
Superficially none of the kindle books I am likely to buy
are included. One obvious example is Evelyn Waugh's
travel books which I can't get using torrents and which
have rather silly prices for their kindle versions, much
more than the physical books.

I'm sure some of his travel stuff was free on FeedBooks

None of his books at all there currently, free or otherwise.

Well, put it this way, I've just downloaded an Epub of Waugh in Abyssinia
from there via the Calibre software,

Doesn’t show me that. Maybe what it offers is region specific or something.

and there are plenty more of his to choose from.

Of the non fiction ? Don’t have any problem with finding the fiction.

Just saying...

"stuart noble" wrote in message
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On 19/01/2016 22:55, Rod Speed wrote:
stuart noble wrote
Interesting. How good is the selection of kindle books ?
Superficially none of the kindle books I am likely to buy
are included. One obvious example is Evelyn Waugh's
travel books which I can't get using torrents and which
have rather silly prices for their kindle versions, much
more than the physical books.

I'm sure some of his travel stuff was free on FeedBooks

None of his books at all there currently, free or otherwise.

Well, put it this way, I've just downloaded an Epub of Waugh in Abyssinia
from there via the Calibre software, and there are plenty more of his to
choose from. Just saying...

Yeah, that was the problem, those were only visible when
I pretended to be from the uk using a vpn. Thanks for that.

"Rod Speed" wrote in message
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"stuart noble" wrote in message
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On 19/01/2016 22:55, Rod Speed wrote:
stuart noble wrote
Interesting. How good is the selection of kindle books ?
Superficially none of the kindle books I am likely to buy
are included. One obvious example is Evelyn Waugh's
travel books which I can't get using torrents and which
have rather silly prices for their kindle versions, much
more than the physical books.

I'm sure some of his travel stuff was free on FeedBooks

None of his books at all there currently, free or otherwise.

Well, put it this way, I've just downloaded an Epub of Waugh in Abyssinia
from there via the Calibre software, and there are plenty more of his to
choose from. Just saying...

Yeah, that was the problem, those were only visible when
I pretended to be from the uk using a vpn. Thanks for that.

But I only get a small part of the book. Any ideas on that ?

On 21/01/2016 09:00, Rod Speed wrote:


"Rod Speed" wrote in message
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"stuart noble" wrote in message
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On 19/01/2016 22:55, Rod Speed wrote:
stuart noble wrote
Interesting. How good is the selection of kindle books ?
Superficially none of the kindle books I am likely to buy
are included. One obvious example is Evelyn Waugh's
travel books which I can't get using torrents and which
have rather silly prices for their kindle versions, much
more than the physical books.

I'm sure some of his travel stuff was free on FeedBooks

None of his books at all there currently, free or otherwise.

Well, put it this way, I've just downloaded an Epub of Waugh in
Abyssinia from there via the Calibre software, and there are plenty
more of his to choose from. Just saying...

Yeah, that was the problem, those were only visible when
I pretended to be from the uk using a vpn. Thanks for that.

But I only get a small part of the book. Any ideas on that ?

Ah, no. I read the first couple of pages and decided the file was ok.
I'll have a look later

"Rod Speed" wrote in message
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"Rod Speed" wrote in message
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"stuart noble" wrote in message
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On 19/01/2016 22:55, Rod Speed wrote:
stuart noble wrote
Interesting. How good is the selection of kindle books ?
Superficially none of the kindle books I am likely to buy
are included. One obvious example is Evelyn Waugh's
travel books which I can't get using torrents and which
have rather silly prices for their kindle versions, much
more than the physical books.

I'm sure some of his travel stuff was free on FeedBooks

None of his books at all there currently, free or otherwise.

Well, put it this way, I've just downloaded an Epub of Waugh in
Abyssinia from there via the Calibre software, and there are plenty more
of his to choose from. Just saying...

Yeah, that was the problem, those were only visible when
I pretended to be from the uk using a vpn. Thanks for that.

But I only get a small part of the book. Any ideas on that ?

Can't be the vpn, get the same result with
other free books that don’t need the vpn.

Get the full book from Gutenberg, so something odd with feedbooks.

On 21/01/2016 09:25, Rod Speed wrote:


"Rod Speed" wrote in message
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"Rod Speed" wrote in message
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"stuart noble" wrote in message
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On 19/01/2016 22:55, Rod Speed wrote:
stuart noble wrote
Interesting. How good is the selection of kindle books ?
Superficially none of the kindle books I am likely to buy
are included. One obvious example is Evelyn Waugh's
travel books which I can't get using torrents and which
have rather silly prices for their kindle versions, much
more than the physical books.

I'm sure some of his travel stuff was free on FeedBooks

None of his books at all there currently, free or otherwise.

Well, put it this way, I've just downloaded an Epub of Waugh in
Abyssinia from there via the Calibre software, and there are plenty
more of his to choose from. Just saying...

Yeah, that was the problem, those were only visible when
I pretended to be from the uk using a vpn. Thanks for that.

But I only get a small part of the book. Any ideas on that ?

Can't be the vpn, get the same result with
other free books that don’t need the vpn.

Get the full book from Gutenberg, so something odd with feedbooks.

Yes, I have 76 pages, which would appear to be only chapter 1. Shame. No
other free sources shown in Calibre

On 21/01/16 09:57, stuart noble wrote:
On 21/01/2016 09:25, Rod Speed wrote:


"Rod Speed" wrote in message
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"Rod Speed" wrote in message
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"stuart noble" wrote in message
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On 19/01/2016 22:55, Rod Speed wrote:
stuart noble wrote
Interesting. How good is the selection of kindle books ?
Superficially none of the kindle books I am likely to buy
are included. One obvious example is Evelyn Waugh's
travel books which I can't get using torrents and which
have rather silly prices for their kindle versions, much
more than the physical books.

I'm sure some of his travel stuff was free on FeedBooks

None of his books at all there currently, free or otherwise.

Well, put it this way, I've just downloaded an Epub of Waugh in
Abyssinia from there via the Calibre software, and there are plenty
more of his to choose from. Just saying...

Yeah, that was the problem, those were only visible when
I pretended to be from the uk using a vpn. Thanks for that.

But I only get a small part of the book. Any ideas on that ?

Can't be the vpn, get the same result with
other free books that dont need the vpn.

Get the full book from Gutenberg, so something odd with feedbooks.

Yes, I have 76 pages, which would appear to be only chapter 1. Shame. No
other free sources shown in Calibre
#

You could - gasp - spend some money?

https://www.waterstones.com/author/evelyn-waugh/2221033



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On 21/01/2016 10:08, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 21/01/16 09:57, stuart noble wrote:
On 21/01/2016 09:25, Rod Speed wrote:


"Rod Speed" wrote in message
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"Rod Speed" wrote in message
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"stuart noble" wrote in message
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On 19/01/2016 22:55, Rod Speed wrote:
stuart noble wrote
Interesting. How good is the selection of kindle books ?
Superficially none of the kindle books I am likely to buy
are included. One obvious example is Evelyn Waugh's
travel books which I can't get using torrents and which
have rather silly prices for their kindle versions, much
more than the physical books.

I'm sure some of his travel stuff was free on FeedBooks

None of his books at all there currently, free or otherwise.

Well, put it this way, I've just downloaded an Epub of Waugh in
Abyssinia from there via the Calibre software, and there are plenty
more of his to choose from. Just saying...

Yeah, that was the problem, those were only visible when
I pretended to be from the uk using a vpn. Thanks for that.

But I only get a small part of the book. Any ideas on that ?

Can't be the vpn, get the same result with
other free books that dont need the vpn.

Get the full book from Gutenberg, so something odd with feedbooks.

Yes, I have 76 pages, which would appear to be only chapter 1. Shame. No
other free sources shown in Calibre
#

You could - gasp - spend some money?

https://www.waterstones.com/author/evelyn-waugh/2221033



£3 delivered on EBay, £9 to read it on a tablet

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On 21/01/16 09:57, stuart noble wrote:
On 21/01/2016 09:25, Rod Speed wrote:


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On 19/01/2016 22:55, Rod Speed wrote:
stuart noble wrote
Interesting. How good is the selection of kindle books ?
Superficially none of the kindle books I am likely to buy
are included. One obvious example is Evelyn Waugh's
travel books which I can't get using torrents and which
have rather silly prices for their kindle versions, much
more than the physical books.

I'm sure some of his travel stuff was free on FeedBooks

None of his books at all there currently, free or otherwise.

Well, put it this way, I've just downloaded an Epub of Waugh in
Abyssinia from there via the Calibre software, and there are plenty
more of his to choose from. Just saying...

Yeah, that was the problem, those were only visible when
I pretended to be from the uk using a vpn. Thanks for that.

But I only get a small part of the book. Any ideas on that ?

Can't be the vpn, get the same result with
other free books that dont need the vpn.

Get the full book from Gutenberg, so something odd with feedbooks.

Yes, I have 76 pages, which would appear to be only chapter 1. Shame. No
other free sources shown in Calibre
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You could - gasp - spend some money?

https://www.waterstones.com/author/evelyn-waugh/2221033

I already said that I can get them from amazon
at silly prices compared with the physical books.

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On 19/01/2016 22:55, Rod Speed wrote:
stuart noble wrote
Interesting. How good is the selection of kindle books ?
Superficially none of the kindle books I am likely to buy
are included. One obvious example is Evelyn Waugh's
travel books which I can't get using torrents and which
have rather silly prices for their kindle versions, much
more than the physical books.

I'm sure some of his travel stuff was free on FeedBooks

None of his books at all there currently, free or otherwise.

Well, put it this way, I've just downloaded an Epub of Waugh in
Abyssinia from there via the Calibre software, and there are plenty
more of his to choose from. Just saying...

Yeah, that was the problem, those were only visible when
I pretended to be from the uk using a vpn. Thanks for that.

But I only get a small part of the book. Any ideas on that ?

Can't be the vpn, get the same result with
other free books that don’t need the vpn.

Get the full book from Gutenberg, so something odd with feedbooks.

Yes, I have 76 pages, which would appear to be only chapter 1. Shame. No
other free sources shown in Calibre

Most likely its deliberate given that there are a number of other
free chunks of Waugh's books on feedbooks, chunks to temp
you so you buy the full copy if you like them.

Didn’t work for me, Labels is also just a chunk and I was glad
I hadn't paid for it, its essentially just a pub crawl in the chunk.

I did find quite a few of his brother's stuff in full for free tho
and am finding his first one worth reading, so may well get
at least the rest of the free ones and see what they are like.