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Various Sinclair QL Books
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 10:57 pm
by RWAP
I have acquired a small pile of QL books and have been listing them for sale on sellmyretro.com
Have a look at the
Sinclair QL books for sale - at least I have kept the prices realistic compared to some sellers on that other well known auction site!!
Re: Various Sinclair QL Books
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 2:46 pm
by Sparrowhawk
Talking of books about the QL, any one ever read this one:
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Sinclair-Ql- ... 0445364570
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sinclai ... 1026881143
Seems like a collection of wiki articles etc. Anyone read it? Seems rather expensive for what is a set of public domain texts - or have I missed something?
I've just bought a QL book from alibris.co.uk Some of their prices are crazy, but this one was just £2.50 so £5 in total with postage. Not too bad. (Would have bought it from you Rich, but you did not have it listed in your current collection).
Re: Various Sinclair QL Books
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 3:31 pm
by Mr_Navigator
This to me looks very much like what Dilwyn has already done here
http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/docs/ebooks/index.html , however Dilwyn's version does not have a fancy front bluish page and its free to download in e-pub and mobi formats.
I have downloaded this and it is full of stuff, it also makes entertaining reading
Re: Various Sinclair QL Books
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 3:43 pm
by Sparrowhawk
Ah, excellent. I had not seen that. I'll download it for my Kindle tonight.
Re: Various Sinclair QL Books
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 3:47 pm
by RWAP
Wikipedia does not actually have a lot of information on the QL - I think their page on QL Software is quite laughable, but then I am not really sure why they have it - the page on Spectrum software would run to several 1000 entries....
Still maybe I am biased - I had my account on WIkipedia banned for self-promotion, once they realised that most of the QL software I was putting details on about, was now only available through my website!
Re: Various Sinclair QL Books
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 11:41 pm
by Mr_Navigator
Still maybe I am biased - I had my account on WIkipedia banned for self-promotion, once they realised that most of the QL software I was putting details on about, was now only available through my website!
Hmmm I don't think you were or still are the only one
Re: Various Sinclair QL Books
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 12:43 am
by RWAP
Mr_Navigator wrote:Still maybe I am biased - I had my account on WIkipedia banned for self-promotion, once they realised that most of the QL software I was putting details on about, was now only available through my website!
Hmmm I don't think you were or still are the only one
What the only one to be banned? And I thought it was a personal vendetta - maybe they feel threatened by the QL Wiki !!
