I am seeing ridiculous increases on books.

Pocketbooks/mass-market are up from 11.99 to 14.99

Many hardcovers typically between 29.99 to 35.99 are now over

>40$

But it's not necessarily "the stores" doing it. In my case it's

>the wholesaler raising *my* price based on their their MSRP.

Would most of those be coming in from the USA ?
Current Trade issues with them may be influencing that too..

Quite a day today. Like usual my shopping day was the worst weather
in several days. It didn't look too bad but the slushy stuff on
the roads was weirdly slippery even where not very deep..

I got through that okay, and then at 7pm tonight my power
went out for 5 1/2 hours, about 75 minutes longer than their
repair estimate. Good thing it was still fairly warm (2c 36f)
today so that it 'only' dropped to about 11c (52f) in here so
I was able to wait it out with a few extra layers of clothing,
later reading a book by flashlight under the covers in bed,
the bedroom holding heat in better than the rest of the house..

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Rob Mccart wrote to AUGUST ABOLINS <=-

I got through that okay, and then at 7pm tonight my power
went out for 5 1/2 hours, about 75 minutes longer than their
repair estimate. Good thing it was still fairly warm (2c 36f)
today so that it 'only' dropped to about 11c (52f) in here so
I was able to wait it out with a few extra layers of clothing,
later reading a book by flashlight under the covers in bed,
the bedroom holding heat in better than the rest of the house..

It seemed to me that refrigerators used to be good, unpowered, for
around 12-14 hours if you didn't open it during a power outage. My new
fridge manual says 4 hours for the fridge, 12-14 hours for the freezer.

We live in an area prone to falling trees, and have had our share of
outages. I've resorted to running an inverter off of my car, running an extension cord from the carport to my kitchen, and running the fridge
every couple of hours. The nice thing is that our new hot water heater
is tankless, and I can run it off the same inverter - the electonics
need power, but the heating is all gas.



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Hello Rob Mccart!

** On Wednesday 14.01.26 - 08:05, Rob Mccart wrote to AUGUST ABOLINS:

Would most of those be coming in from the USA ? Current
Trade issues with them may be influencing that too..

Most are coming from my Canadian distributors. Yet, many books
are marked: printed in USA or China.

Quite a day today. Like usual my shopping day was the
worst weather in several days. It didn't look too bad but
the slushy stuff on the roads was weirdly slippery even
where not very deep..

It seemed to be a big meltdown today. But that left the
backroads as a big bumpy mess. I happened to be following
behind a snowplow on my road this morning - the ride was
relatively smooth. But coming home tonight, I really had to
slow down to under 30km-20km/hr to minimize the bumpy racket
the wheels were having.

I got through that okay, and then at 7pm tonight my power
went out for 5 1/2 hours, ...

... I was able to wait it out with a few extra layers of
clothing, later reading a book by flashlight under the
covers in bed, the bedroom holding heat in better than the
rest of the house..

Yep.. when the hydro goes out here, all "productivity" stops.
I don't think I have a working flashlight anymore - I got fed
up with trying to keep the batteries fresh. I'll just use the
phone "flashlight" if I need to illuminate a path in the house.

But I do have one floorlamp feeding off a UPS (that I can
silence when the alert kicks in) ..and with just an LED bulb,
it runs for about 4hrs. The UPS just has a basic 12v 9A batt.
Maybe consider something like that so that you don't have
manipulate a flashlight.






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Quite a day today. Like usual my shopping day was the
worst weather in several days. It didn't look too bad but
the slushy stuff on the roads was weirdly slippery even
where not very deep..

It seemed to be a big meltdown today. But that left the

>backroads as a big bumpy mess. I happened to be following
>behind a snowplow on my road this morning - the ride was
>relatively smooth. But coming home tonight, I really had to
>slow down to under 30km-20km/hr to minimize the bumpy racket
>the wheels were having.

My roads didn't have deep stuff on them but it was slippery,
more-so than glare ice would be. Even when there was only
1.5 to 2 inches of it it felt like the car was pushing through
it more than it would in 3 times as much snow, but I later
thought about it and it might have just felt odd because the
traction utility was trying to control slippage. I did see the
light flash at one point showing traction control was on..

Yep.. when the hydro goes out here, all "productivity" stops.

>I don't think I have a working flashlight anymore - I got fed
>up with trying to keep the batteries fresh. I'll just use the
>phone "flashlight" if I need to illuminate a path in the house.

But I do have one floorlamp feeding off a UPS (that I can

>silence when the alert kicks in) ..and with just an LED bulb,
>it runs for about 4hrs. The UPS just has a basic 12v 9A batt.
>Maybe consider something like that so that you don't have
>manipulate a flashlight.

I have a small flexible USB lamp I can use on my computer if
there's no power. It's only a single LED so it would probably
run forever off the Laptop battery..

But those little LED flashlights that take 3 AAA batteries,
they throw a lot of light and seem to last forever. I spent
over 4 hours using one of those for reading when the power
went out and it hadn't dimmed at all. Using the flashlight
occasionally I find a set of batteries often lasts me for
3 or 4 years. I think the batteries usually die of old age
rather than from use..

But that is a limited area of lighting. In power outages I
often still end up resorting to candles to light a room..

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