Timeline for Should questions asking about availability of a specific book be on-topic?
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| Jan 20, 2017 at 15:39 | comment | added | b_jonas | Maybe, but in that case you're answering a different question than Helmar did. @Gallifreian, could you perhaps clarify which of the two questions you want answered? | |
| Jan 20, 2017 at 15:37 | comment | added | Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 | @b_jonas - But that's what the topic of this Meta question is about ... Shopping. Not what you're asking about. | |
| Jan 20, 2017 at 15:35 | comment | added | b_jonas | I'm not asking for information about where I can buy the book. I'm asking for which volumes or edition I should buy. A volume identified by eg. the name and location of its publisher and date of publication (or by an ISBN number for new enough books), and that information almost never changes. The information I gave in my partial answer would have helped me ten years before, so it didn't become obsolete, and I don't think it will become obsolete in the next ten years either. | |
| Jan 20, 2017 at 15:32 | comment | added | Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 | @b_jonas - Not the point. If you are shopping, especially for any edition of a book, the particular information you might get today will be worthless tomorrow if someone actually purchases the book. You aren't going to find any books like you're suggesting in any quantity, so it's only going to be one which you'll find (or two) ... this information WILL NOT be useful in the future. | |
| Jan 20, 2017 at 15:27 | comment | added | b_jonas | "Becomes stale quickly"? The best partial answer I have so far is an edition from 1983, and I have reason to think that I'm looking mostly for books published before c. 2002 in this question. | |
| Jan 20, 2017 at 15:23 | history | answered | Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |