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Ha - I had an experience with one of these recently, entirely by accident[0]. I purchased the 7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens for my oldest boy this summer
by mdip 8y ago
Ha - I had an experience with one of these recently, entirely by accident[0].
I purchased the 7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens for my oldest boy this summer on Amazon. It's an older book so, naturally, I went to the used/new and found a listing for the 'paperback' version of it for a few bucks delivered (compared against over $10).
Then it arrived. And it was about 4cm x 5cm (estimated). I laughed, figuring I'd been working a little too quickly when I hit the "Buy Now" button so I went back to the listing. Sure enough, the picture was of the original paperback and there was no note about it being the "Tiny Version"[1]
At first, I thought 'scam', and it probably was one, but at the end of the day I ended up with a book that had the content I needed -- not sure if it was abridged or not, but being that the target reader was an almost-teenager, this resulted in the material appearing to be a "quick read" which he was able to complete in a day. And I paid less than 20% of the original price despite discovering that -- at least in this case -- it was a better option.
[0] Maybe ...
[1] It may not have been; it's entirely possible that my seller was just selling that version