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I never knew that the infamous London Transport daggers on their map were really obelus (should that be obeluses or obeli in the plural?)

£12.99 for an electronic copy, that would make e-book more expensive than the paper version.

I was just going to order a copy untill I saw the e-book price you quoted, as I've ben a Kindle owner for a year now. Although I love the convenience and flexibilty of my Kindle I wouldn't pay that much, I would wait for a decrease in price, which comes with time.

However on checking Amazon's Kindle page the price is actually £6.30, so thanks for the heads up will get this to read on my train to Skegness Saturday :)

I truly hope that hard copy books never disappear into the online ether. Reading a hard copy is a special kind of experience I don't think an electronic edition can replicate

Good grief, what a busy boy our Stephen is. I read somewhere recently that there's a diary of 'Mrs Stephen Fry' coming out in October too.

Best use ever of 'playing' with Twitter to build an audience methinks.

To be fair, people very seldom mention Scylla without also mentioning Charybdis.

Only trouble is, you now have an extra year to wait for the next one ;)

I was expecting the final irony of you absentmindedly leaving it on the train

I don't think DG "does" absent-minded.

I've sold about 600 of my books (used) on Amazon and I've noticed that used paperbacks often sell for a higher price and more quickly than used hardbacks (of the same work and in the same condition, even "new")... many people seem to prefer paperbacks even when both types are immediately available at the same price. I think some people figure that the paperback edition will be lighter and thinner than the hardback edition, but that's not always the case. In the last few years, the few hardbacks (on sale, obviously - I agree with DG about not paying a crazy price for them) I've bought have been surprisingly lightweight, and I appreciate their sturdiness. I've also come to appreciate a wider page than some paperbacks provide. I'm in a post-meal mental slump - sorry for the random thoughts.
I think I read Fry's first volume of autobiography about 12 years ago -- something about being a rent boy and generally an unhappy & sort-of-unpleasant teenager? If that was his first volume, he is taking a very long time to pump out subsequent volumes, if he's only just finished university in the present one.
Three years ago, I lived about 10 houses down from him in West Hampstead (more accurately 'East Kilburn' than anything to do with Hampstead-Hampstead, obviously). I read recently that he's moved to a snazzy place in a different area of London (tied in with his new romantic relationship, I think), which is nice... I always wondered why he chose that neighbourhood - I didn't think it was any great shakes.

Do we have to go through this everytime a new medium appears? Books aren't going anywhere, despite radio, TV, the Internet and electronic ink. They coexist and complement each other well, so stop worrying and just enjoy them!

Electronic reading devices will never replace the newspaper.

Have you ever tried to swot a fly with a Kindle?

Kindles aren't bad for fly swatting actually...they're just not much good for anything else afterwards.

I'm making the smart decision - instead of waiting 12 months for the paperback at £8.99, I'm going to wait three months and pick up a secondhand hardcover for £2.99 in Oxfam. With celebrity autobiogs, this never fails.











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