For some reason, a thumb-indexed version of the current Chambers is on Amazon UK for the absurdly low price of £5.39 plus p & p.
Although it’s not an official dictionary for the Times puzzle, it’s hard to resist at this price. Unless there’s a new Chambers coming out soon, I can’t see why it’s so cheap.
The non-thumb-index one is £21, for the same dictionary. It was in my cart at £17.50 but I hadn’t got round to ordering it, so the index one is much better value. Perhaps it’s a mistake that will get corrected when they notice.
And I had assumed t it was the official Times dictionary – or is it just the official Listener one?
Edited at 2007-12-24 05:06 pm (UTC)
Thanks for that Peter. They could in theory rescind the offer before despatch, but I’d be surprised.
The last in this sequence was 2003 so the next (2008) is almost upon us, so why not sell earlier ones to get rid of them.
A slight qualification to this in that Chambers issued a new edition in 2006 with apparently v few changes from 2003 which continues to be recommended for Listener and Azed (though in the latter case this may be about to change).
As my 2003 editions disintegrated with overuse, I’ve been using Chambers 2006 for a while.
Still there today 27th Dec at £5.39 though, so they’ve not sold out.
I saw it for £40 in Waterstones today too 😀