My book-buying "problem"

Discussion in 'Books, Films, TV, Radio' started by Chris C, Jul 6, 2018.

  1. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Thing I like most about N&MP is just how pristine things are when they arrive.
    Some mail order suppliers' new books can have a feel of having been kicked around a warehouse or three (stopped using Wordery due to condition of last couple of orders), but with N&MP I've never had anything that didn't appear fresh off the press.
    Their refusal to use any free postal arrangement has also saved me from many an immoderate drunken 3AM order...
     
  2. Charley Fortnum

    Charley Fortnum Dreaming of Red Eagles

    I emailed them to ask whether I had time to get an order to a UK address before I flew overseas and they wrote back almost immediately to say they'd have the books in the mail by later on the same day as I ordered.

    Decent customer service.
     
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  3. Ewen Scott

    Ewen Scott Well-Known Member

    The”free” postage and packing is a piece of VAT planning.

    If the supplier has a price for the printed book and then charges for P&P then the book is zero rated and latter element only is standard rated for VAT purposes.

    If there is a (higher) price for the book and no separate charge for the P&P then the whole supply can be zero rated.

    So this means that the cost to you is cheaper, or, depending on the supplier more likely, he can make a bit more profit on something where the margins are already tight or a bit of both. Which route they take will depend on a whole range of factors related to how that particular business operates, like the mix of what they are selling between exempt, zero and standard rated items, and who they are using to deliver the goods, the Post Office or a private delivery firm like DHL.

    VAT gets very complicated and the above is the simplest version.
     
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  4. Slipdigit

    Slipdigit Old Hickory Recon

    thanks! I just flipped through the pages and saw terms that made me think it was about Normandy. I started reading later the night after my post and as you alluded to, is more of a historical novel than an actual history. It "reads" more like a movie or TV show.

    We'll see.
     
  5. Albowie

    Albowie Junior Member

    For me I started to collect Military Histories as a young soldier and continued refining my tastes and adding titles to support a modelling habit. Many, many double bookcases later i still continue to acquire anything I can find on british or Commonwealth Armour much to my partners despair. Luckily I a have regular pusher who gives me a stack of books from Casemate/Stackpole every month to review. The Gods really smiled this month with:
    The reprint of Take these men
    Arromanches to the Elbe
    To war with the 4 Hussars
    D Day Dakotas
    The First helicopter boys
    D Day Cover Up at Point de Hoc
    and Arnhem and the Aftermath

    Al
     
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  6. Albowie

    Albowie Junior Member

    The Author was a tank commander in 2 RTR during the Desert War and wrote mainly about the actions they partook in NA. Lightly fictionalised but when you read real histories and other 2 RTR and 5 RTR memoirs there is a stark similarity
     
  7. Charley Fortnum

    Charley Fortnum Dreaming of Red Eagles

    Very interesting.

    I've often wondered how Bookdepository.com can manage free global airmail.

    I'm managed to get some of the monster-sized After The Battle books sent international for free.

    (They seemed to have wised up to that and massively upped the price on them).
     
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  8. Chris C

    Chris C Canadian

    Hi Al I've never heard that Joly was in 2RTR: are you sure? This blog post shows him in 3RTR during Crusader, alongside Bob Crisp.

    A Literary Field Return
     
  9. Orwell1984

    Orwell1984 Senior Member

    Round the Second:
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    The author of the above title on markings and camouflage posted on the 12 o'clock high forum as CJE and passed away recently.
    This is his masterwork, released around the same time and a great tribute to his hard work and support of the aviation history community.
     
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  10. Charley Fortnum

    Charley Fortnum Dreaming of Red Eagles

    I highly rate the Cassino book.

    Bought for the photos, stayed for the maps (many) and incisive narrative.
     
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  11. Charley Fortnum

    Charley Fortnum Dreaming of Red Eagles

    Just a note to anybody considering a purchase here: two volumes: thirty-three fold out maps!
     
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  12. Orwell1984

    Orwell1984 Senior Member

  13. Rich Payne

    Rich Payne Rivet Counter Patron 1940 Obsessive

  14. Robert-w

    Robert-w Banned

    Well folks tomorrow the knackers van (ahem hospital transport) takes me off for the first of my cataract ops after which any book buying problem will either be exacerbated or eliminated. Fifteen years ago I went for a transverse colonectopy with the surgeon tactfully trying to suggest that i didn't start any long books. I was much less apprehensive than I am now and the more people keep telling me not to worry the worse it gets. However things are getting so blurred I have little choice. As the WW2 song goes Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye - even if the waves are two fingered.
     
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  15. canuck

    canuck Closed Account

    Best of luck Robert. You'll be right as rain in a few days.
    I've had two laser cataract surgeries in the past 2 years. Piece of cake, quick and painless. Both were successful.
    My vision now is sharper than ever.

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  16. Wobbler

    Wobbler Well-Known Member

    The very best of British today, Robert.
     
  17. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    On its way.


    PILLBOXES : A STUDY OF UK DEFENCES 1940
    by Wills, H

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  18. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    Hope all goes ok which it will Robert

    regards
    Clive
     
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  19. Chris C

    Chris C Canadian

    Has anyone tried organising their collection with cardboard tabs between books to indicate where sections begin and end? What did you use to make them?

    (I don't have enough shelves to have a full shelf per topic)
     
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  20. Tolbooth

    Tolbooth Patron Patron

    Blimey Chris! You'll be doing Dewy Decimal next. Half my enjoyment searching for a book is finding ones I'd forgotten I'd bought.
     
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