Geek's Guide to Britain – now a book. Permission to geek out granted In 2013, The Register began its travel series Geek's Guide to Britain. Today, that series is available as a book. The inspiration for our series were the scientists, engineers and inventors born or working in Great Britain who made their mark on the world. Jet engines, the internet, medicine, electricity, mass communications …
"Unfortunately, also John Maynard Keynes and the Fired Mars Bar."
Oy! Without "Keynes" there would be only be three North Towers at Essex University, and where would we be then? On second thoughts I'd have had not so far to walk to get to William Morris... (any chance of discrediting R. H. Tawney? :) )
Meanwhile I'm not sure about "Fired Mars Bar", is this referring to the possible creation of a confectionery shooting device (a whole new meaning to fast food), or perhaps some kind of ceramic coating...
I thought this idea sounded rather familiar but I'll buy yours too.
@Mark Butler
I take it that you do not order volumes from the London Mathematical Society, Springer Verlag, or the Institute of Physics on a regular basis.
I have a week's leave coming up, a deck chair, a stack of slim volumes and, now, a tastefully *red* one for light reading. What can possibly go wrong (thunder, rain, gales).
Coat: mine's the one with the B5 capacity pockets.
"20 quid is a bit steep for a small paperback isn't it?"
Yes, but consider this - it's slightly cheaper than the Encyclopedia Galactica Britannica, has large, reassuringly friendly letters on the cover, and undoubtedly has fewer glaring (and occasionally fatal) errors then certain other publications that spring to mind.
There's something missing from the cover though, can't quite think what it is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kitten-Kong.jpg
Anyway, the book's a fine idea, but will it be just the articles, or will the finer comments be included too? Obviously not this one, but some of the more illuminating ones, maybe?
Danger - sounds like the sort of book that could get you in to trouble for being a suspected terrorist ... go out with this book in one hand and a camera in the other - sure to get arrested... hence better not buy it ... safer to be just a "keyboard geek" in the safety of your own home...
Don't get me wrong I will be getting a copy; but where is the kindle/epub version? Sell it for 99p on Kindle and 90% of reg readers will buy a copy. Sell it for this amount as a tree corpse and only 3.142% will buy it.
<Statistics bought to you by the EU Referendum statistics team; make sure you don't buy more than three bananas>
Already featured in The Guardian
At which point I realised that if the guardian has featured it, the general rule is avoid like the plague.
Its like my general rule "if its advertised on TV, arrives as spam in your inbox, or as a popup advert on a web site, dont buy it".
Am I the only one who would cheerfully pay an online or licence subscription NOT to be bombarded with advertising, and get cheaper products, too?
I thought about Sky, but there is even MORE advertising as WELL as a subscription.
I thought about Sky, but there is even MORE advertising as WELL as a subscription
If Sky is anything like the satellite provider in South Africa, the majority of its ads are *for* the provider, and go on for two minutes at a time.
Never seen the point of advertising to customers you already have. Preaching to the choir, isn't it?
I received my book. Unfortunately it came in this weird 'folio' format with lots of pieces of paper stuck inside it. I have tried to swipe from right to left but I only seem to get a glimpse of the page underneath and then the red folio cover swipes back. Also I tried to swipe down in order to access the bookmarks and the contents index and nothing happened.
Please help.
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