Episode 1052: Exchange Rates Conspiring To Make Me Spend Less!

Kinokuniya was having a 20% discount storewide to celebrate the 12th anniversary of its Orchard store, so I headed down with Jared to buy some books. Ended up buying only books published locally though, as given the current strength of the Singapore dollar against the US dollar and the British pound, it made no sense to pay the Kinokuniya prices for books published on either side of the Atlantic. I'll just have to wait until I'm back in the UK and/or The Book Depository does another 10% discount. Got a bunch of volumes from the Interlogue series put out by Ethos Books though, so I can return most of my borrowed copies to the library. Academic books are so ridiculously expensive! No wonder practically nobody wants to buy and read them, not even university students. (That's what we invented photocopiers for!) Sadly, since these are collections of academic essays on Singaporean literature, it would be nothing short of a miracle if copies of these books turned up in the Library back at Warwick. At least I'm not going to have trouble preparing a bibliography to accompany my dissertation proposal...