My book-buying "problem"

does this help all in GB

the budget
Abolishing the reading tax from 1st December.Digital Books, newspapers, magazines or academic journals, however they are read, will have no VAT charge

 

Do you mean whatever media they are in? Presumably all but Braille are read the same way?

 

says Digital
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has abolished VAT on e-books, dubbed the “reading tax

 

But not it appears until December. Wonder why the delay

 

you have been in business a money thing no doubt

 

Husband has impulsively bought me
I Shall Bear Witness - The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1933-41.
It's a day by day record by a Jew living in Germany in those years, showing development of the Nazi control. He survived.
It's very heavy, 400+ pages, so not one to read in one go, and not easy to skip pages, so I'm putting it off.
He (husband) won't read it.

 

You bought an Odd book! Why that’s not at all like you

 

You mean you don’t have one bookcase per subject?

 

Some more arrivals:

 

Hi Chris, I took my info from Wiki so it is likely that the Litery report is correct having him in 3 RTR at the time he was a Captain.
Al

 

Had to chuckle when Von Poop said about the Osprey book being jammed in, been there and done it.
Some space liberated a place for more bookshelves, MP is indeed very tolerant, attached the latest addition, known as "dung" to MP. .

 

I saw James' collection of gigantic "Then and Now" volumes and died of jealousy.

 

A different approach to the space issue: I swapped a copy of Industrial Housing in Wartime for a similarly-sized copy of 135 Fd Regt's war diary. The former wasn't uninteresting but I think the latter was the better catch.

 

A different approach to the space issue: I swapped a copy of Industrial Housing in Wartime for a similarly-sized copy of 135 Fd Regt's war diary. The former wasn't uninteresting but I think the latter was the better catch.

 

Hurrah

I can now read printed matter again without the need for large magnifying glasses, Abe and Albris are the immediate beneficiaries as I wait for the post with renewed interest. Now where to put them?

 

Good news.

We're actually looking at corrective lens replacement at the moment so it's good to hear more evidence of its 'routineness'.

 

Chris, these were bought as I could afford them mostly as they came out or shortly afterward, the first I bought was the Panzers in Normandy book in a model shop in Belfast in 1983.

 

But it's hardly serious collecting as they never seem to go out of print!

PiN was my first as well, though I've fallen behind with them since Market-Garden.

 

Well I don't see this one as a problem (though perhaps my not seeing it as a problem immediately makes it a problem!)

From the sale I attended a couple of weeks back. Estimated price in the catalogue £30 - 50. This was one of the few items in the sale that I hoped to purchase for a (retired) ex-RTR friend.

After what seemed an age, and no opening bids, which I thought astounding in itself, I cheekily asked the auctioneer if £20 would buy it, at which he said "sold" and promptly put the hammer down (this I think was a kindness as it prevented anyone from coming in over the top of what I had offered)

In my eyes a bargain, and not a problem!

Kind regards, always,

Jim.