And that on a Dult (=fair) Sunday (with shops open from 1 pm). The few bold vendors that had come anyway had to struggle with fierce squalls and later continous rain, which made not only the one with the wooden hut (2nd photo) leave early.
When I took these two photos, it was relatively dry and not that windy…
One is tempted to call such rigid, fully sealed plastic packaging which several manufacturers are using almost criminal – could that be attempted bodily injury? 
–, packaging of 0.55mm strong plastic that even large household scissors can hardly open:
Can’t protection against theft (by taking devices out of the packaging) in the stores be made easier and more customer-friendly?
Or better: Zeit(=time) space problem, because I had to find space for the 20-volume ZEIT lexicon – which is already almost three years old, but now, as the WELT will soon release their own lexicon, of course at a discount for 139,- (in the “bild der wissenschaft shop”), i.e. basically for 1 cent per page (and thus clearly cheaper than the competition, and with more pages, more words, but less images and without DVD-ROM).
Pictured here not yet on the bookshelf, but on the floor in front of my comic shelf:
My experiences with Amazon have been – and still are – positive regarding reliability, delivery time etc. It’s just that the estimated delivery dates can be amusing sometimes (you might think otherwise, but at least it gave me something to write about 
):
On Tuesday at 11:39, I ordered a book and a CD (and specified complete delivery for saving p&p), and they specified 1 Nov as dispatch estimate.
Already at 14:47, the dispatch mail for the book arrived, delivery estimate Thu 1 Nov (which, however, is a public holiday in my federal state). At 20:16, the dispatch mail for the CD came and specified a very optimistic delivery estimate of Wed 31 Oct.
When did they arrive? Of course, the book came “too early” on Wednesdey, but the CD not until today… 
By the way, they came from the same city but with different postcodes – seems they have separate storage/shipping facilities for different types of goods.
Quelle, one of the big German mail-order companies, included in their latest ad letter two stickers for the Q key – in nice metallic blue, with a little violet touch depending on the light source (and not easy to photograph correctly):
(Translation: “Free stickers for your world of advantages.”)
With the background that if you press the Q key on quelle.de, you get a special offer page (if you’re logged in) – currently a Halloween special, a travel raffle and a few highlighted, partly reduced classes of goods.
Nice idea, but would anyone really put them on her/his keyboard? I doubt that…
(Should I ask Quelle if they have stickers for the other 104 keys? At least then it would have a consistent look…)
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