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« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2008, 10:21:20 AM » |
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« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2008, 10:26:55 AM » |
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I recently found a book called "44 Scotland Street" by Alexander McCall Smith for $1.00. It's a really adorable book, and it was originally serialized in the Scotsman newspaper. Easy read at an easy price! If I can figure out how, I'll post a pic of the cover. Okay, let's see if I got it right:   |
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« Reply #3 on: November 18, 2008, 11:21:28 AM » |
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I recently found a book called "44 Scotland Street" by Alexander McCall Smith for $1.00. It's a really adorable book, and it was originally serialized in the Scotsman newspaper. Easy read at an easy price! I ordered it. d*mn, I have to stop doing that! |
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« Reply #4 on: November 18, 2008, 11:35:36 AM » |
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I recently found a book called "44 Scotland Street" by Alexander McCall Smith for $1.00. It's a really adorable book, and it was originally serialized in the Scotsman newspaper. Easy read at an easy price! If I can figure out how, I'll post a pic of the cover. Okay, let's see if I got it right: Great job on the cover! If you want to have it smaller, insert width=200 (or another number) in the first [ img] tag as shown below (spaces after [ added to make it readable: [ url=http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FCKKSA?ie=UTF8&tag=kindleboards-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000FCKKSA][ img width=200]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KNV7YWDZL._SS500_.jpg[/img][/url][img]http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=kindleboards-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B000FCKKSA][ /img] This book is part of a series of three, the other two aren't as cheap but will probably come down as they get older. All are available on Kindle, I believe. Betsy |
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« Reply #6 on: November 18, 2008, 11:47:56 AM » |
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Great lists, all of you! Keep it up!  Betsy |
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"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -Eleanor Roosevelt
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing." -Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird
"Oh come on! Stake through the heart. A little sunlight. It's like falling off a log" -Buffy, the Vampire Slayer |
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« Reply #7 on: November 18, 2008, 11:51:11 AM » |
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By the way, Geemont: Thanks a bunch for starting this thread - I had been meaning to start one just like it but just hadn't gotten around to compiling my bargain finds list yet. And now I can't wait to see everyone elses bargain discoveries.  |
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Bacardi Jim
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« Reply #8 on: November 18, 2008, 12:02:07 PM » |
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Cabbages and Kings - O. Henry 25 cents An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser 25 cents Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman 25 cents Thorns - Robert Silverberg 75 cents To Open the Sky - Robert Silverberg 95 cents [Fixed to include links]
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At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behavior. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up.
After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favor of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.
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« Reply #10 on: November 18, 2008, 12:10:09 PM » |
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Just a request: Can you guys link to any books you recommend? Would make life much easier for the rest of us. Thanks. |
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Xia
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« Reply #11 on: November 18, 2008, 12:14:57 PM » |
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Just a request: Can you guys link to any books you recommend? Would make life much easier for the rest of us. Thanks. Looks like Betsy has added the links to some from my list. (Thank you, Betsy!) I actually don't know how to do that, but it's high time I learned if I'm going to be hanging out around here. Could someone please tell me where I can go to learn how to do this? Thx! |
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Bacardi Jim
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« Reply #12 on: November 18, 2008, 12:16:10 PM » |
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Just a request: Can you guys link to any books you recommend? Would make life much easier for the rest of us. Thanks. Oh, I was gonna let Harvey trail behind me turning all by books into Kindleboard affiliate links. Isn't that what we pay him for?  |
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At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behavior. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up.
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« Reply #13 on: November 18, 2008, 12:19:24 PM » |
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Looks like Betsy has added the links to some from my list. (Thank you, Betsy!) I actually don't know how to do that, but it's high time I learned if I'm going to be hanging out around here. Could someone please tell me where I can go to learn how to do this? Thx!
I just finished all of yours, Xia! If you click on the Link-Maker in the top menu, it'll take you to a page with more information. Take a look at that and one of us will also post instructions. Betsy |
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"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -Eleanor Roosevelt
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing." -Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird
"Oh come on! Stake through the heart. A little sunlight. It's like falling off a log" -Buffy, the Vampire Slayer |
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Bacardi Jim
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« Reply #14 on: November 18, 2008, 12:29:43 PM » |
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I already took care of mine, Betsy.
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At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behavior. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up.
After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favor of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.
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Harvey
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« Reply #17 on: November 18, 2008, 12:47:51 PM » |
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Oh, I was gonna let Harvey trail behind me turning all by books into Kindleboard affiliate links. Isn't that what we pay him for? That's right! I feel better when I'm earning my pay. |
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Harvey
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« Reply #18 on: November 18, 2008, 12:55:13 PM » |
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Let me add a big THANK YOU to everyone who takes the time to post those links to Amazon. I know it adds some steps, but it sure makes it easy for our readers to check out the books on Amazon. And, it helps the site to have those Amazon affiliate links out there. And a bouquet to Betsy for her quiet, diligent work in adding those links to posts that don't have them already.  For instructions on adding links (both text links and book-cover image links) to your posts, see our Link-Maker page: http://www.kindleboards.com/linkAnd let us know if you have any questions about it! Thanks all. - Harvey |
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Linda Cannon-Mott
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« Reply #19 on: November 18, 2008, 12:56:32 PM » |
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Bets you lucky girl you, roses!
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Bacardi Jim
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« Reply #20 on: November 18, 2008, 12:57:50 PM » |
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Are they scratch-n-sniff? *scratches* Mmmmmm.... glass cleaner. |
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At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behavior. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up.
After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favor of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.
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« Reply #21 on: November 18, 2008, 01:11:25 PM » |
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LMAO Barcardi Jim!! You are bad!
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« Reply #22 on: November 18, 2008, 01:12:39 PM » |
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NOTE: This book is now $9.99--BetsyThis is an apparently award winning book (that I have not read) by a Pulitzer Prize winning author (which probably means I won't like it) but it is definitely inexpensive compared to the DTV at $2.95.   Product Description "A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, their eccentric and remote aunt. The family house is in the small Far West town of Fingerbone set on a glacial lake, the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck, and their mother drove off a cliff to her death. It is a town "chastened by an outsized landscape and extravagant weather, and chastened again by an awareness that the whole of human history had occurred elsewhere." Ruth and Lucille's struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival, and the dangerous and deep undertow of transience." About the Author MARILYNNE ROBINSON is the author of the novel Gilead and two books of nonfiction, Mother Country and The Death of Adam. She teaches at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.
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Bacardi Jim
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« Reply #23 on: November 18, 2008, 01:16:37 PM » |
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^^Haven't read the book but enjoyed the movie quite a bit.
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At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behavior. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up.
After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favor of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.
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Geemont
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« Reply #24 on: November 18, 2008, 01:27:27 PM » |
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This was one of my favorite novels I read in college many years ago. I download the sample a few weeks ago and the formatting was way, way off. |
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