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Re: Book Promotion

Postby Horse » Thu Nov 23, 2017 9:55 pm

Your 'standard' is how you drive alone, not how you drive during a test.

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Re: Book Promotion

Postby Mr Cholmondeley-Warner » Thu Nov 23, 2017 10:27 pm

kfae8959 wrote:As people probably know already, AbeBooks was taken over by Amazon some time ago.

I didn't know that. That's a great shame - a typical example of pike swallowing minnow, to all our disadvantages.
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Re: Book Promotion

Postby Gareth » Fri Nov 24, 2017 10:35 am

Mr Cholmondeley-Warner wrote:
kfae8959 wrote:As people probably know already, AbeBooks was taken over by Amazon some time ago.

I didn't know that. That's a great shame - a typical example of pike swallowing minnow, to all our disadvantages.

It happened ages ago, so either the bad things have been with us without anyone noticing, or it wasn't so bad after all!
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Re: Book Promotion

Postby Mr Cholmondeley-Warner » Fri Nov 24, 2017 11:08 am

True. I just didn't know. I don't mind Amazon, apart from their rather ridiculous P&P charges for small items.
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Re: Book Promotion

Postby GTR1400MAN » Fri Nov 24, 2017 12:16 pm

Just about to start reading this free book from Kevin Williams of Survival Skills.

It's motorcycle based but I'm sure it will be interesting for car drivers as well.
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Re: Book Promotion

Postby Horse » Fri Nov 24, 2017 12:45 pm

GTR1400MAN wrote:Just about to start reading this free book from Kevin Williams of Survival Skills.

It's motorcycle based but I'm sure it will be interesting for car drivers as well.


Kev quotes me, so it must be good ;)
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Re: Book Promotion

Postby GTR1400MAN » Fri Nov 24, 2017 4:41 pm

Horse wrote:Kev quotes me, so it must be good ;)

He does indeed. He also mentions an incident with a frozen puddle in a car park :)

Lots of good advice in it.
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Re: Book Promotion

Postby Horse » Fri Nov 24, 2017 6:57 pm

Yup . . .

The back story is that I'd checked the gravel track from the shed to the road, that was fine, and the roads were dry. I'd phoned the security guard at work to check on the access road and that was ok too.
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Re: Book Promotion

Postby Horse » Sat Nov 25, 2017 11:20 am

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jcochrane wrote:Published in 1980 (I think it was) The AA Book of Driving. Good read from what I can remember.


Actually, that's reminded me of one I have. Is it a large paperback, heavily-illustrated, with a black and white 'smashed glass' design on the cover? If so, yes, very good.


Ah, remembered which AA book (without having to disembowel the cupboard to find it):

AA Book of Driving Emergencies

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/AA-Driving-E ... 3448322/bd
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Re: Book Promotion

Postby jcochrane » Sat Nov 25, 2017 11:37 am

That’s not the one. The AA Book of Driving was a hardback. Contained some interesting stuff including advanced training such as IAM, RoADA, and BSM’s High Performance Course. :)


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