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Saturday, December 3, 2011

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Books in Australia are too expensive!

That's an established fact on which Bob Carr, the former NSW premier, wrote an insightful article in The Australian.

I buy many of my books online from the Book Depository in the U.K. whose prices are often half, and usually a third below, the Australian retail price. And they offer free worldwide delivery!

After my first acquaintance with Julian Barnes through The Sense of an Ending, I have ordered five more of his books - from the Book Depository, of course: