From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <40c8bd98ab410e55@orthanc.ca> <20190630190818.GA30410@wopr> In-Reply-To: <20190630190818.GA30410@wopr> From: Charles Forsyth Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2019 21:26:16 +0100 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="000000000000769751058c9053cf" Subject: Re: [9fans] Anyone have a Plan 9 4th Edition Manual Set... Topicbox-Message-UUID: 013b95a0-eada-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --000000000000769751058c9053cf Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" The main problem is the postage at 2.7Kg even at Printed Paper rate (which also doesn't work at all for Canada or Cameroon if over 2Kg). On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 8:09 PM Kurt H Maier wrote: > On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 09:32:29AM -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > michaelian ennis writes: > > > > > I found a second edition set on Abe books last year. They were not > > > inexpensive. > > > > Sadly, Abebooks became utterly useless several years ago, when it was > > taken over by bots scraping each other listings and adding 5%. > > In other words, Amazon bought it. My copies came from Alibris, and they > were not a set; I bought them each individually for extremely cheap by > searching the ISBNs directly. > > khm > > --000000000000769751058c9053cf Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
The main problem is the postage at 2.7Kg even at Printed P= aper rate (which also doesn't work at all for Canada or Cameroon if ove= r 2Kg).

On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 8:09 PM Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net> wrote:
On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 09:32:29AM -0700, Lynd= on Nerenberg wrote:
> michaelian ennis writes:
>
> > I found a second edition set on Abe books last year.=C2=A0 They w= ere not
> > inexpensive.
>
> Sadly, Abebooks became utterly useless several years ago, when it was<= br> > taken over by bots scraping each other listings and adding 5%.

In other words, Amazon bought it.=C2=A0 My copies came from Alibris, and th= ey
were not a set; I bought them each individually for extremely cheap by
searching the ISBNs directly.

khm

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