test please delete

[Diver]

If I ever get back into Real Time™, I shall try to remember to include you when I do my stats.

The tables I produce are bigger than the 10K posting limit so I have to delete entries manually. The way I do it is purely based on whether i can remember that person having posted lately. Hence the bottom few entries are actually lower in the table than some I will have deleted.

I do that to encourage newbies.

Delete mine if it makes it easier. + it'll confuse the beggars

[NickFitz]

This is the Night Mail crossing the border,Bringing the cheque and the postal order,

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You're not supposed to post copyrighted material on here - CUK could get sued by Auden's estate

[Diver]

£30 - but it's the very nicely produced hardback edition, with good quality paper, an excellent binding (very heavy endpapers) and excellent typography - good wide margins and decent leading. It's very easy on the eye, which is important when reading poetry.

under twenty quid online

[Diver]

You're not supposed to post copyrighted material on here - CUK could get sued by Auden's estate

But it's encouraging the heathen to rush out and buy Auden's works, Innit

[Diver]

Check out FG's one a day thread.

New entries

[NickFitz]

under twenty quid online

Most of the time stuff I buy online never gets to me - I'm not home during the week, and the post office collection place is in the middle of nowhere and only open for one minute a month.

So it ends up getting sent back to Amazon a month later, who credit my account, but not for the delivery charges.

So it would probably have ended up costing me more, and I wouldn't have got it for at least a week and maybe four. Or maybe, like several items in the big order that never reached me last November, I'd never have got it at all.

I kept meaning to buy it in the University bookshop twenty-eight years ago and never got around to it... so it was worth an extra couple of quid to actually have it, rather than going to my grave still thinking about getting it.

[BrowneIssue]

The Top TPD Posters

No. User . . . . . . . Posts . Credit
.1) DS23 ..............10000 = 10.715% = 1 in every 9 posts
.2) zeitghost ......... 9157 = .9.812% = 1 in every 10 posts
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.5) BrowneIssue ....... 7558 = .8.099% = 1 in every 12 posts
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17) Xenophon .......... .947 = .1.015% = 1 in every 98 posts
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26) AndyGarbs ......... .367 = .0.393% = 1 in every 254 posts
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42) Katie ............. .155 = .0.166% = 1 in every 602 posts

So you are 36th - post more drivel...

What he said!

[NickFitz]

I used to do a bit of bookbinding as a hobby when I was a teenager - it was a natural tie-in with my passion for letterpress printing and typography.

One year at school there was a new Latin poetry textbook (paperback) which had been made with inferior glue - within a month of the start of term, everybody's copies were falling to pieces, including the teachers'.

So one Sunday afternoon I re-bound mine in hardback and printed a new cover for it on my Adana 8-5 platen

The Latin teacher was astonished... he spent about five minutes examining it. I think he was considering asking me to do his

[Diver]

I have W H Audens 1945 edition kicking about somewhere. It's a bit Rat eared and has a Library stamp and cardholder glued inside it.
Just had a quick look through the boxes of books behind me, but there are too many.

[NickFitz]

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