More eruthros finds cool deals online

[eruthros]

1. The Complete New Yorker. No, really the complete one, the DVDs+the book. For thirty dollars. It's on sale right now.

2. Snow boots for more than eighty percent off at shop.com. For example, the Columbia Women's Shoes. The sizes are a little inconsistent, and the shoes have individual pages for colors, so you can't say "okay, they don't have this in black in my size, so what about the sage?" without doing a new search. On the other hand, that means that there are a lot of standard sizes left in some colors, because other people apparently don't do that new search. I'm getting me a pair of $120 snow boots for $20. AWESOME.

Comments

[rusty76.livejournal.com]

FYI, there have been several issues with DRM and privacy on the New Yorker collection...

"DVDs wouldn't allow any text to be cut or paste, searching was only allowed in abstracts or titles (as opposed to within the text), and reading issues out of chronological order required switching discs or returning to the index. Additionally, the discs could not be copied onto the hard drive and the license agreement forced users to waive their privacy rights on their viewing information (e.g. time spent viewing a page, number of times a page was accessed, IP address, and so on)." 2nd Law blog (http://2nd-law.blogspot.com/2006/01/complete-new-yorker.html)

[eruthros]

Yes, I've heard. There are ways to copy the data from the disks to your hard drive, which is (I've heard tell) a pain in the ass to do, but works fine afterward.

I guess, though, that I find the complete New Yorker such a completely cool thing that I think $30 is worth that mess, though you wouldn't have caught me paying $70 for it.