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Subject: Re: Bowditch versions
From: Dan Allen (danallen@XXX.XXX)
Date: Tue Jan 30 2001 - 20:06:05 EST
$99 is a "gouge" price. The government prints the book and if you must have
it, do not pay $99. Normal bookstores do not carry it often because they
have to get it from the Government Printing Office and they do not make good
money unless they raise the price a lot.
Celestaire is a kinder company and sells the book at a reasonable price.
Buy from them and give them the business!
As far as reading in bed, the 1995 Bowditch is very large (8 1/2 x 11) and
thick, and it will not be good in bed. I would recommend downloading the
PDFs, printing them 2 up on a good laser printer, and you could have a much
nicer bedtime reading experience.
The original Bowditches (1802 until 1865 at least) were a smaller size that
are also nice to hold and read... but they are a bit fragile now! :-)
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: Navigation Mailing List
[mailto:NAVIGATION-L@XXX.XXX]On Behalf Of Yves Arrouye
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 4:35 PM
To: NAVIGATION-L@XXX.XXX
Subject: Re: Bowditch versions
Is $20-something an "on sale" price? I'm asking because Amazon.com (or was
it buy.com, whoever) lists it at $99, and Celestaire at $25. And I'm
wondering if the $25 price at Celestaire is only because of the upcoming
2000 edition. If that's the case, I'll be tempted as Patrick to buy the 1995
at a reasonable price. For what I'll do with it, I'd rather put down the
difference towards other sailing stuff.
YA - 3 ring binders don't make good bed reading anyway :)
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