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Folio Society is having a half price sale if any of you anons are interested.

>> No.11362628

>>11361649
thank fren

>> No.11362640

>>11361649
Garish and tacky. They belong in cringe complication, not a bookcase.

>> No.11362724

>>11362640
t. Poorfag

>> No.11362741
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11362741

The books on this website are $200 a pop, what the fuck?

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>>11361649
Thanks for the heads up.

>> No.11363126

Any idea when the promotion will end ?

>> No.11363158

>>11363126
nope

>> No.11363175

>>11363023
Fucking hell
Regardless of what people think of the book prices, £17.50 for delivery is flippin outrageous

>> No.11363178

>>11363175
yeah I wasn't too happy about that one, but I really wanted the books

I wish they offered something cheaper. Especially when the £17,50 delivery time is up to 28 days in Europe.

>> No.11363192

>>11362724
t. Poortaste
They aren't even the most expensive editions out there either .

>> No.11363208

>£17.50 delivery
are you fucking joking? that's literally a scam

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>>11361649
I'm not generally fond of Folio Society designs but pic related is really nice.

>> No.11363261

>>11363208
not if they don't have a mass business discount deal from DHL or Royal Mail. That's what it would cost for me to send an insured package to the UK.

>> No.11363470

>>11363261
>this major publishing company doesn't have special contracts with logistics companies

How naive can you be?

>> No.11363630

>>11363470
*If*

>> No.11363681

>>11363175
That shit better come wrapped in enough bubble wrap to cripple the economy of the third world shithole that produced it. I assume any blemishes whatsoever and people freak the fuck out on them.

>> No.11363687

>>11363261
>dhl, Royal Mail
Third world savage. I work for the post office during the summers and out of all civilized nations, England is the only one who thinks they don’t need to care about their packages being tracked

>> No.11363692

>>11361649

>buying books

LOL

>> No.11363741

>>11363692
books are the most based thing you can collect

>> No.11363747

>>11363741

>collecting things

absolute consumerism

>> No.11363808

>>11363747
consumerism is based

>> No.11363810

Thanks for the heads up, OP. I picked up:

- The Complete Shorter Fiction - Melville
- Foucault's Pendulum - Eco
- Midnight's Children - Rushdie
- The War of the End of the World - Vargas Llosa

Absolutely love these editions

>> No.11363823

>>11363808

>capitalist cuckolds

absolutely disgusting

LOL

>> No.11364059

>>11363681
Well, if you are paying £50 for a single hardcover, that shit better be pristine when it arrives.

>> No.11364112

Might get the Pillow Book and Melvilles short stories. Surprised they don't have a good Tale of Genji.

>> No.11364129
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>>11364112
It sold out a while ago, they sometimes reprint editions again.

>> No.11364131

just buy cheap paperbacks on ebay baka i just bought a lot of 4 brautigan books for 6 buckaroos

>> No.11364149

>>11364131
based virtuous frugal anon

t. just bought an easton press for 30 dollars

>> No.11364176

folio is for redditors to post pictures of and get upboats, not to actually read

>> No.11364802

>>11364176
ok, but lets say I order a few books and then I read them cover to cover

then you would be a wrongo, friendo

>> No.11364820

wtf. Don't tell everyone. my wage doesn't come in for another week.

saged

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>>11364820
stay mad wagie

mom already bought me five

>> No.11364939

>>11363687
???
both dhl and royal mail are tracked
also dhl is a german company
i think you might be a bit of a dolt, anon

>> No.11365680

>>11364129
oof i really want that

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11366548

>Rime of the Ancient Mariner isn't on sale

>> No.11366782

when the FUCK are they gonna reprint proust

>> No.11366815

Folio is very Reddit. Not to my taste.

>> No.11366840

They are still expensive as fuck

>> No.11367224
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>>11361649
Very few folio books are worth getting. Shakespeare letterpress folios are nice and a few of the older designs of misc books are fine. But a lot of it is pretty over the top and overpriced

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>>11367224
agreed
this edition of Meditations looks nice, though still not worth 15 anglorinos plus shipping

>> No.11367622

>>11362741
i agree it's a steep price, but folio editions are very high quality books in every way.

>> No.11367625

>>11363681
can confirm they package the books very well.