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    Shipping notice due to arrive Halloween. No clue what it is but I love it!

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      Originally posted by Brian861 View Post
      Shipping notice due to arrive Halloween. No clue what it is but I love it!
      That's perfect timing! I hope it is something appropriate for the occasion.

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        Happy Halloween!
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          Happy Halloween, all!

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            It's it nice when you order a book and what shows up is a non traycased lettered edition. It was The CD edition of Four Octobers by Rick Hautala. I bought it from thriftbooks so I was half expecting a library copy. Very happy!

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              Originally posted by saginawhorror View Post
              It's it nice when you order a book and what shows up is a non traycased lettered edition. It was The CD edition of Four Octobers by Rick Hautala. I bought it from thriftbooks so I was half expecting a library copy. Very happy!
              SCORE!

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                That is very cool. I have had that book on my wish list for awhile now. Congrats!

                Originally posted by saginawhorror View Post
                It's it nice when you order a book and what shows up is a non traycased lettered edition. It was The CD edition of Four Octobers by Rick Hautala. I bought it from thriftbooks so I was half expecting a library copy. Very happy!
                Looking for the fonting of youth.

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                  Think I will be ditching directtv after being a customer for the last 6 years or so. Trying out youtube tv right now and it seems like a pretty nice set-up and easy to use. Tired of paying $100/month with DTV and missing local channels and outages during storms...I live in Florida and it's fairly frequent in the stormy months. The youtube thing is $50/month and looks to have a decent lineup of channels, DVR type options, and all my local channels which I cannot get with an OTA antenna.

                  Anyone else familiar with the youtube service? If so any pros or cons from your experience?
                  Looking for the fonting of youth.

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                    Originally posted by Ben Staad View Post
                    Think I will be ditching directtv after being a customer for the last 6 years or so. Trying out youtube tv right now and it seems like a pretty nice set-up and easy to use. Tired of paying $100/month with DTV and missing local channels and outages during storms...I live in Florida and it's fairly frequent in the stormy months. The youtube thing is $50/month and looks to have a decent lineup of channels, DVR type options, and all my local channels which I cannot get with an OTA antenna.

                    Anyone else familiar with the youtube service? If so any pros or cons from your experience?
                    I ditched Verizon a few weeks ago, and I'm saving $190 a month.

                    I went with Xfinity/Comcast internet at $40/month, YouTubeTV at $50 a month, added HBO to my Amazon Prime for $15 a month (wifey needed HBO), and I'm very happy with it.

                    YouTube has unlimited DVR (it costs them nothing - all it does really is flag a program so you can watch it any time), and you can have separate libraries for different family members.

                    I have one newer TV that already has Roku built in (a TCL TV), but my older TV has no connectivity, so I bought a Roku for that one, too. The Roku interface is nice. You can move your favorite channels/apps to the home screen and put them in any order you like. It makes it very easy to bounce from Amazon Prime to Netflix to YouTubeTV.

                    Here's a good article with a spreadsheet showing who has which channels - https://www.cnet.com/news/best-live-...-cord-cutters/

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                      Thanks for the feedback.

                      Well I called DTV and cancelled. Bad timing as they don't prorate anymore. Apparently they made this change early this year.

                      So far I don't miss them at all. YoutubeTV has the channels I watch and the ROKU has plenty of features if I want to utilize them. I will take my extra $600/year and probably just blow it on something...
                      Looking for the fonting of youth.

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                        Originally posted by Ben Staad View Post
                        I will take my extra $600/year and probably just blow it on something...
                        Well, Ben, can I send you some pamphlets about a charity that recently formed to help close the happiness gap one Jeff at a time. It's called Books For Jeff and it really can make a difference. If we can change just one person's life (that person being Jeff) then we can make the whole world a better place somehow!

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                          Originally posted by jeffingoff View Post
                          Well, Ben, can I send you some pamphlets about a charity that recently formed to help close the happiness gap one Jeff at a time. It's called Books For Jeff and it really can make a difference. If we can change just one person's life (that person being Jeff) then we can make the whole world a better place somehow!
                          I've heard that only 30% of books given to Books For Jeff actually make it to an actual Jeff! I think it's a scam.

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                            This is why all my donations go straight to The Human Fund.

                            Originally posted by bsaenz24 View Post
                            I've heard that only 30% of books given to Books For Jeff actually make it to an actual Jeff! I think it's a scam.
                            Looking for the fonting of youth.

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                              I found a five volume Folio Society set The Story of the Middle Ages. I want to buy this slipcased set and I could get it for just over $50. I tell myself I can't buy it due to a lack of space and I have way too many books already. The angel dude is on one shoulder-Don't buy it! and the devil dude is on the other shoulder saying Buy it, buy it!! I listened to two audio lectures by Professor Thomas F Madden about the Middle ages and those lectures were awesome. I had looked for a long time until I realized that Professor Madden also covered this topic in his lectures. The lectures were The Modern Scholar: The Medieval World I: Kingdoms, Empires, and War and The Medieval World, Part II: Society, Economy, and Culture.


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                              Books are weapons in the war of ideas.

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                                You know that recessed spot on top of some bookcases? Well yesterday I was going to put a decorative piece up there and discovered not one but two boxes hiding up there.

                                Pretty cool to rediscover a few forgotten books! I suppose when I bought this place a few years ago they got put up there during the moving in process.

                                The books were a LE of "Dark Advent" by Brian Hodge and a deluxe slipcase copy of "Smoke and Mirrors". It was like an early Christmas to me.

                                On a side note I forgot how much I like that oversized Smoke and Mirrors. Cool book and a number of great signatures.
                                Looking for the fonting of youth.

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