The MacAlba

“The Time-Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century” [ISBN-10 0224079948] looks like an interesting book – you just never know when the information it contains would come in useful. Now I could import it from The Book Depository in the UK, with free air-mail shipping, for the equivalent of Aus$30.09, or I could buy it from my local Dymocks bookshop next time I’m in town for Aus$59.95 (where they’d have to order it in).

Hmmmm. Which one do you think I’d go for?

I’m usually always a person who will shop locally to support local businesses, but there is a limit to my support of businesses where the cost is double.

[Price comparison correct using the exchange rate as at Dec 20, 2008]