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• paws4thot commented on We interrupt this broadcast ...
  srsly? Well, Banksie once said "The Culture is my train set", so maybe the Laundry is Charlie's?...
• silburnl commented on We interrupt this broadcast ...
  Just bought this from Kobo in an effort to route around the incipient Bezos monopsony, but wasn't paying attention to the file format before I clicked the link (in my defence I was under-caffeinated and previous books I've sourced from Kobo have been fine). So I am now the proud custodian of a link to an 'Adobe DRM epub' - which despite the name appears to be some form of encrypted PDF that is currently only accessible to me via the Kobo desktop app. This makes me... not happy - I have Calibre for this stuff precisely so I don't...
• ffutures commented on We interrupt this broadcast ...
  Mine should have been delivered on Monday but I was out, so I ended up collecting it from the post office yesterday - it then emerged that Amazon had sent me two copies, the reason being I'd accidentally ordered it twice, the first time last year and the second a month or so ago. VERY annoying that Amazon can see two orders, even pack them in the same box, but not realise that there may have been a tiny mistake... Probably read it over the weekend anyway....
• Bellinghman commented on We interrupt this broadcast ...
  It's not implausible that you'd decided that you wanted a second copy in order to give it to someone. Were I to order a second copy and were Amazon to decide not to fulfil that bit of the order because they knew better than me what I wanted, I would be deeply peeved. (On the other hand, a notification email in order to check would be a nice feature.) I did end up getting two copies of one book, having ordered a copy from both Amazon US and Amazon UK. But then I ended up with two copies of another...
• silburnl commented on We interrupt this broadcast ...
  Kobo couldn't offer me any alternative to the Adobe DRM epub, but they did refund me without any quibbles. So Amazon ended up with my custom after all. Regards Luke...