Tuesday 3 August, 2004
Decisions, decisions
After a long deliberation and consultation with Henri, I arrived to a decision to buy Canon's Ixus 500 camera from Amazon. Well, to tell the truth, Henri narrowed the choice down for me to few cameras and we agreed that Ixus 500 with whopping 5 mega-pixels was really the best choice for the quality/prize range I was looking at. I chose Amazon after checking the tax free price at Gatwick - the camera was a ridiculous £60 more expensive there - my original idea had been to pick up the camera there as "tax free is cheaper".
Now I'm just waiting for the camera to arrive - with any luck it'll arrive on time and I should be able to take it for a test drive on Sunday for the TFL Party in the Park. And talking about arrivals, Iron Council arrived on post today. It's not quite as thick as the previous parts with under 600 pages, and the quality of the paper is on the cheap side and it's cut quite badly (as this is the US edition of the book, I guess - I've never seen this shoddy books in here or Finland). But on the other hand, I have all the confidence that the content will blow my mind away.
Posted by kolibri at 3 August 11:01, 2004lmao! Now, on top of everything else, the US has shoddy books? What?
# 2 - Kolibri (on August 4, 2004 08:26 AM):
It's either that or I'm really unlucky. I'm not complaining about paperbacks, they are supposed to be cheap. But when I buy a hardcover book I pay premium price and I expect premium quality. In here hardcover books have good quality paper, are nicely bound and very neat - the book I got yesterday had worse paper quality and the front edge of the book is cut very shoddily leaving some of the page wrinkled.
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