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This is just a guess...
The new term Media Mail is trademarked. Book rate wasn't. Post office service quality varies drastically from one clerk to the next so the gals may have met up with a smarmy clerk who didn't feel the need to tell them the new name or simply chose to gouge them. Even worse, it is possible the clerk didn't know Media Mail includes books. I don't have any data to tell if the prices changed along with the name although I seem to recall libraries complaining about it... Brenda BDS2pds wrote: That sounds wonderful. I wonder why the gals were told no more Book Rate back then. It was sad cuz it ended a good idea as long as the book wasn't covered in food etc. I was a newbie at the time and it had gone on already for 4-5 years and perhaps the gals were looking for a way to end it as it was past it's usefulness... One will never know. I think it covered several hundred miles... |
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The books are found in the youth section in the bookstore, but I think
that is because the heroes of the stories tend to be teenagers. I found them very good and not written with a younger reader in mind. My oldest "younger reader" just turned 14, but has read at "post high school level" for several years now (Tested at that level by her school, not just proud mom hyperbole, I swear! lol), and reads mostly from that section of the bookstore. Believe me if they were written "down" she'd have stopped browsing those shelves long ago! lol Caryn Blue Wizard Designs http://hometown.aol.com/crzy4xst/index.html Updated: 7/7/03 -- now available Dragon of the Stars View WIPs at: http://community.webshots.com/user/carynlws (Caryn's UFO's) |
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??? I said that it was still there.
Meredith Cheryl Isaak wrote: On 3/5/04 7:12 AM, in article , "BDS2pds" wrote: That sounds wonderful. I wonder why the gals were told no more Book Rate back then. It was sad cuz it ended a good idea as long as the book wasn't covered in food etc. I was a newbie at the time and it had gone on already for 4-5 years and perhaps the gals were looking for a way to end it as it was past it's usefulness... One will never know. I think it covered several hundred miles... I went to the US Postal Service web pages For "media mail" http://www.usps.com/consumers/domestic.htm#standard Media Mail (Book Rate) Description Used for books, film, manuscripts, printed music, printed test materials, sound recordings, play scripts, printed educational charts, loose-leaf pages and binders consisting of medical information, videotapes, and computer recorded media such as CD-ROMs and diskettes. Media Mail cannot contain advertising. The maximum size is 108 inches in combined length and distance around the thickest part. Sorry Meredith - it is still there. Cheryl Mark each package "Media Mail" in the postage area. |
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On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 16:25:53 -0500, Ellice wrote:
Dragon lovers should read Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly. The rest of the series is ok, but that one is a keep forever book. Good point. I read everything she wrote - for a while. But..... You're right about Dragonsbane, though. Oh, she wrote a Trek/Here Come the Brides (remember that series, with the 3 brothers who owned a mountain in Seattle?) crossover that had Mark Lenard's character in HCTB marry Biddy Cloom, and it turned out that they were Amanda's ancestors (and therefore Spock's). She didn't have quite all the HCTB canon right, but it's a charming and fun read, anyway. Darla Sacred cows make great hamburgers. |
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On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 07:19:12 -0900, "Harry and Anita"
wrote: I have rread the Sunrunner series so many times, I'm thinking of getting a second set to replce the wornout bindings. Actually, Heinlein's _The Glory Road_ is the only one that I've had to buy replacements for. Mel's books aren't far behind (although I do have the second trilogy, The Dragon Star books, in both hard cover and paperback. It's the paperbacks that take the beatings. Darla Sacred cows make great hamburgers. |
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In article , Darla
writes: Mark Lenard's character in HCTB marry Biddy Cloom, and it turned out that they were Amanda's ancestors (and therefore Spock's). She didn't have quite all the HCTB canon right, but it's a charming and fun read, anyway. Oh, my, that *does* sound like a hoot! BTW, the Mystery Book Club newsletter came today, and reminded me of another local author who'd slipped my mind: John Lescroart. -- Finished 12/14/03 -- Mermaid (Dimensions) WIP: Fireman's Prayer, Amid Amish Life, Angel of Autumn, Calif Sampler, Holiday Snowglobe Paralegal - Writer - Editor - Researcher http://hometown.aol.com/kmc528/KMC.html |
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Just finnished The lady And the Unicorn by same author as the Girl
with the Pearl earing , both are very wellwritten , both artistic as well as socio'economic levels very well researched. mirjam On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 20:18:14 GMT, Darla wrote: On 3 Mar 2004 19:52:46 -0800, (Raine) wrote: Has anyone read Girl With a Pearl Earring or Birth of Venus yet? Any reviews? Girl with a Pearl Earring. I enjoyed it. Darla Sacred cows make great hamburgers. |
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Ellice wrote: On 3/1/04 6:49 PM,"Caryn" posted: You can always go for Focaults Pendulum by Umberto Eco. He also wrote The Name of the Rose, and Baudolino. ellice I tried the "Name of the Rose" after seeing the movie. I never did finish it, I found the untranslated parts interfered with the flow of the read. I didn't have the inclination at the time to try to translate them myself and skipping over them made me feel I was missing important information for understanding the mystery. I didn't understand why the American publisher didn't do a complete translation. John |
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