This has probably been answered many times by now but

["spaceman"Bryce]

wanted to see if theres a consensus here.Tommorrow im going to buy one so....I should just read the other topics! but i dont feel like it.PLEASE VOTE.

[DavidC]

Amazon is selling them both for $45 USD I think, as a package deal.

--Dave.

["spaceman"Bryce]

Thats a good idea...

[jakethebake]

I kinda liked you before this post, Bryce. [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

["spaceman"Bryce]

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I kinda liked you before this post, Bryce. [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

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Its ok no one likes me, I [censored] up everything. I'm used to it.

[splashpot]

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I kinda liked you before this post, Bryce. [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

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Let's get this straight. You open a thread that is titled "This has probably been answered many times by now but" and then make a comment about how you don't like that this is a question that has been asked before. If you don't want to read it, don't open the thread.

[jakethebake]

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Let's get this straight. You open a thread that is titled "This has probably been answered many times by now but" and then make a comment about how you don't like that this is a question that has been asked before. If you don't want to read it, don't open the thread.

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Let's get this straight. Just because you preface the post with "This has probably been answered many times by now but" doesn't make it any less asinine or redundant. And I didn't make any comment about not liking that the question having been asked before.

[SNOWBALL138]

lol. Is your sole purpose on the books forum to tell people that they need to use the search function?

[jakethebake]

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lol. Is your sole purpose on the books forum to tell people that they need to use the search function?

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Actually I do a lot of reading/lurking here as I do on a lot of 2+2 forums. But most of my posts here are as you described.

[TomBrooks]

I generally care little for thread titles that are not highly descriptive and as specific as possible in describing the content therein. I like to be able to tell at a glance if it's a subject I might want to learn more about, or one to which I might be able to contribute. As a matter of fact, I downright dislike amorphous subjects. Case in point would be this thread title. It is about as non-descript and unspecific as one can get.

But somehow I find myself drawn to open these nebulous tomes, curious to see what ambiguity resides inside. Perhaps the writers of these inchoate titles purposely utilize this tendency of curiosity that some people have to entice them, to tease them, to make them wonder what they would miss if they didn't open the thread and take a peek inside.

When I find the subject is something I know little or nothing about, or at least not enough to warrant a response on it's own merits, I often invest a bit more of my time and make a response. I'll respond with something, ...anything. Just a mark to show I was there. After all, if the OP doesn't care enough for the reader’s time to make it clear what they will be getting into, why should any readers care enough for his time to worry whether or not their responses will be of any value to him?

If I can't address the question, perhaps I'll address the way the question was asked. I can usually find some detail to ask for clarification about. Or I might know enough about some aspect of the topic or some related element that I can find something to comment on.

Occasionally, ...rarely, ...but it sometimes happens, the opening post may leave me so devoid of any idea on how to answer it that hasn't been adequately covered already that I must then find, like I did herein, another's response to which I can add something.

TomBk