{"id":5438,"date":"2009-09-09T21:40:49","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T13:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/09\/09\/yet-more-reading-material\/"},"modified":"2009-09-09T21:40:49","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T13:40:49","slug":"yet-more-reading-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/09\/09\/yet-more-reading-material\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet more reading material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two books I\u2019d recently blogged about <a href=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/08\/30\/lonely-planet-wildlife-travel-photography\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/08\/30\/baby-photo-taking\/\">here<\/a> arrived this afternoon, but by way of a different book store this time: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/\">The Book Depository<\/a>, a UK-based online book store. The store boasts free shipping to a long list of countries, including Singapore. But well, you know nothing\u2019s ever free: many of the books I\u2019m interested in sold by the Depository (even without shipping) are usually cheaper than Amazon with shipping costs added, but they aren\u2019t all so.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well; I was interested in trying out the store, and the three books I selected aren\u2019t\u00a0 sold at or were more expensive at Kinokuniya even with the 20% discount. Moreover, several book packages I\u2019ve ordered from the UK have always reached Singapore quicker \u2013 and The Royal Mail service used by the Depository didn\u2019t disappoint either. It took about 6 days from the point of dispatch to reach here, compared to the 2 weeks it typically takes for Amazon US.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019re the two books that arrived first: <em>Lonely Planet\u2019s Guide to Travel Photography <\/em>by Richard I\u2019Anson, and <em>The BetterPhoto Guide to Photographing Children<\/em> by Jim Miotke. Cost SGD32 and SGD35 respectively. Ling\u2019s particularly interested in the second book, so more notes to come soon, surely.:)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" title=\"blog-2009-rivervale-DSC_3042-books\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/blog2009rivervaleDSC_3042books.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2009-rivervale-DSC_3042-books\" width=\"580\" height=\"393\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two books I\u2019d recently blogged about here and here arrived this afternoon, but by way of a different book store this time: The Book Depository, a UK-based online book store. The store boasts free shipping to a long list of<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/09\/09\/yet-more-reading-material\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Yet more reading material<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-children-blues","category-photography-cameras","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-7-id","wpcat-13-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}