Re: The bookselling racket (was: Collecting Dictionaries)


"xerlome" <xerlome@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > In the case of the book, the difference is in the cost of the time
> > you'll need to spend, to find that particular book in a thrift store
> > in the first place.

> When you have little money, you might choose to spend time rather
> than (not be able to) pay someone else to do it for you.

....

When you have little money, you'd don't have any choice.

And that's just your first sentence.

It's not really looking very promising is it ?



hint:not having enough money can be a perennial problem in life.

So what else is new?

What other startling insights do you intend to share with the Group ?


< groans all round plus massive snippage >

....

> Would you tell me how to get the £ sign on the keyboard ?

....

At a guess

Use a UK keyboard - hardware, set the keyboard to UK English - software
and then use [shift] 3.

In the old days under CP/M and early DOS, UK users had to jump through
hoops to print pound signs in some programs which more often came out
as hash # symbols. Now they all moan about Windows instead. Plus ca
change blah, blah, blah.

I can type both pound and dollar sign, and in OE the currency symbols in
this post were all showing as dollar signs on my display dollar - $
or now pound - £


michael adams


> ER Lyon


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