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10-12-2013, 06:39 AM
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Interesting. The magazine has improved lately.They actually printed a poem a few weeks ago. That's the first one for many years. I'm not counting at the back where we improve the thing no end. I actually won something a month ago!
I think The Oldie sells twice as many and the Speccie three times as many. I subscribe to both.
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10-12-2013, 06:52 AM
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Oddly enough, some years ago the NS used to put the competition results on the Internet, as the Spectator still does. I can understand to some extent their not wanting us to post entries in advance, but it's hard to see why they should object to our posting the results.
Perhaps they want to force everyone who follows the competition to become a subscriber? Well, I'm not going to. The postage costs of receiving the printed version in France are absurd, and the electronic version is of no interest to me, since I hate trying to read books or magazines on the computer.
Oh, I'd forgotten - I could always print the downloaded version ...
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10-12-2013, 04:21 PM
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Good news. Trying out the Kindle version of Spectator, and it includes the contests.
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10-12-2013, 07:00 PM
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Curtis, it's been a couple of years since I tried the Kindle versions of the Spectator, but back then I found it to be inconsistent. Sometimes the contest was included, sometimes not.
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10-12-2013, 11:03 PM
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Ah well. The current issue of Spectator on Kindle does have the contest results and next contest, and it's a free first 30-day trial, so I may wait and see how consistent they are.
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10-13-2013, 02:27 AM
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Wht is this Kindle of which you speak? Is it something I need? Kindle? It sounds familiar. Chocolate eggs? Surely not.
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10-13-2013, 11:42 AM
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Keep up your print subscription, John. It doesn't need re-charging at awkward moments, apart from financially, and it means you can linger over it, or last week's, in the bath without having to disturb your beloved's reading of Harvest. And then you can re-cycle the mag around friends - kindling interest, perhaps? - or greenly to the paper box.
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10-13-2013, 12:58 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by John Whitworth
Wht is this Kindle of which you speak? Is it something I need? Kindle? It sounds familiar. Chocolate eggs? Surely not.
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John, it's an electronic thingy intended to replace books. Need I go on?
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