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A good thing about browsing in a physical bookstore and purchasing from them, rather than browsing the Internet and having a book delivered, is that you don't accidentally purchase a book you can't actually lift...

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Last book I bought at full price in a book store cost me 5 pounds more than it would have done on Amazon. :-(

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What book did you almost pick up?

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I bought 1132 pages on Artificial Intelligence. Not a book I can comfortably hold whilst reading - and if I'd been in a bookshop and found how floppy the paperback is, I might have gone for the hardback...

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Good god - is that what the latest edition of Russell and Norvig weighs in at?

Which textbooks is Edinburgh asking you to get nowadays? It used to be Luger and Stubblefield, but I guess that things may have moved on...

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It depends which modules you choose; I'm into Databases, Knowledge Management, and some AI.

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Right, so probably fundamentals of AI, and knowledge representation and inference. Alan Smaill is a good chap - he supervised my MSs dissertation for a bit while my main supervisor (Chris Mellish) was on leave.

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I bought a copy of Peter F. Hamilton's

The Naked God

in hardback (a cheap remainder), about a 1000 pages, and weighed a ton. This was when I was working in Feltham so my commute included a 15 minute walk from station to office and I had that book in my backpack with my laptop. I told my colleagues I was reading it for exercise.

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I read Mary Gentle's Ash on a commute, and it did wonders for my biceps!

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Yabbut Ash was actually good, whereas The Naked God only confirmed me in my desire to give Hamilton a good slap. E.E. Smith could have written a better ending and often did.

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I'm still bitter about the Naked God. I'd assumed that the title was figurative, not literal.

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Well, I was starting to get the tip-off during the previous 2 volumes of tedious torture porn - it didn't seem like there was going to be any good way to get out of it.

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I got

1ngi the boxed set of the complete Calvin and Hobbes for Christmas. I managed to carry it from office to car, and from car to house, and after that gave up on lifting it. It was slid from hiding spot to wrapping to under the tree. Somehow it is now up on a bookshelf, and I don't know how it got there. (Presumably by moving it volume at a time.)

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You'd never inadvertently buy this in a shop, for instance.

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Holy cow.

I think that Amazon are missing a trick there - they should be trying to sell sheds to the people that buy that, because it'd just about fit into a garden shed.

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Or start a partnership with IKEA.

People who bought this many books, also bought BILLY bookcases...

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Why not go the whole hog and go for an affiliate scheme with estate agents?

(and the mention of IKEA reminds me that I *must* loc Plokta)

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I like the IKEA partnership idea - I'm always running out of places to put my books

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Surprisingly (compared to the intuitive guess) the whole package amounts to little more volume than the box a washing machine comes in, and less than a fridge.

Of course, as solid paper, it weighs a lot more than white goods.

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