It should be a very quick read if you break out the dictionary.
I can sympathize on the "failure to properly label", though. I ordered the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom and it was not Greek and Latin, but Greek and Albanian. Of course, I didn't really need or want the Latin, but still...it looks like a made-up language.
I find that BiblioLife books are TERRIBLY listed. I ended up returning three or four books I ordered from them upon receipt because they were not what they claimed to be. St. Augustine's City of God in hardcover? No, just Books 14-22. The Oneirocritica of Artemidorus in Greek? No, a commentary on it in Latin.
I also have now ordered two books from amazon.it that were listed as "Rilegato" which were actually "Brossura". One was one of those crappy French-style pseudo-hardcovers, but the other was just a mass-market style paperback. I would have sent them back but it is too much of a hassle. Oh well. So I have two copies of Gerusalemme Liberata by Torquato Tasso now (I went back and ordered a hardcover version as well).
The most frustrating thing is actually the way I can't order new books through the marketplace at amazon.de because they only ship inside Germany.
I can sympathize on the "failure to properly label", though. I ordered the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom and it was not Greek and Latin, but Greek and Albanian. Of course, I didn't really need or want the Latin, but still...it looks like a made-up language.
I find that BiblioLife books are TERRIBLY listed. I ended up returning three or four books I ordered from them upon receipt because they were not what they claimed to be. St. Augustine's City of God in hardcover? No, just Books 14-22. The Oneirocritica of Artemidorus in Greek? No, a commentary on it in Latin.
I also have now ordered two books from amazon.it that were listed as "Rilegato" which were actually "Brossura". One was one of those crappy French-style pseudo-hardcovers, but the other was just a mass-market style paperback. I would have sent them back but it is too much of a hassle. Oh well. So I have two copies of Gerusalemme Liberata by Torquato Tasso now (I went back and ordered a hardcover version as well).
The most frustrating thing is actually the way I can't order new books through the marketplace at amazon.de because they only ship inside Germany.
I'm getting to the point where if it's a used, third-party purchase, I might just switch over to Abebooks full-time, as the information tends to be more accurate, plus they have dealers all across the Americas and Europe that'll ship to me. Sure, I might have to pay $20 in shipping, but at least I know it's the same as buying from Amazon.fr, .de, .es, or .it in terms of costs, but with more information.
I checked that purchase. Said the language was English. Sure, if one looks only at the introduction. Sometimes, I think Amazon in all its iterations just wants to fuck with its customers who want quality books in other languages.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
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It is frustrating when online sellers don't divulge correct information
- 28/01/2012 09:50:48 PM
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It's riddled with typos.
- 28/01/2012 10:52:20 PM
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Yeah, I gave up on proofreading after laboriously typing that for 15 minutes
- 28/01/2012 11:08:20 PM
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It looks like fairly simple Byzantine Greek
- 28/01/2012 11:25:09 PM
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You mean specific sellers who only ship inside Germany?
- 28/01/2012 11:37:47 PM
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And for the record
- 29/01/2012 12:59:34 AM
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Yeah, it's fairly straightforward religious Greek
- 29/01/2012 01:30:58 AM
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