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  • 0 of 1 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 1 ealasaid5

    Member since 11/12/2012

    Reviews written: 1

    1 Star Beware - Don't use Visa or MasterCard for Folio Society Purchases 11/12/2012

    Advantages Advantages Fine if you live in Britain

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Additional bank processing fees if you purchase with a US Visa or Master Card.

    I purchased several books from the Folio Society USA website. All the information on the site was in US dollars. My receipt is in US dollars. There is a US flag on the website. I paid for the books with a Visa Card. I was charged international transactions fees. There is no statement on the Folio Society website that this was an international purchase. I emailed the Folio Society requesting clarification but never received a response. (I sent an inquiry regarding a different issue a month ago and still haven't received a response. They do not appear to have the capability of responding to ... more
  • 4 of 4 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 5 staceycaunt

    Member since 02/06/2012

    Reviews written: 208

    5 Stars Beautiful Books! 03/06/2012
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages a must for any booklover - beautifully printed, illustrated and bound books!

    Disadvantages Disadvantages membership required - although this didnt put me off!

    I have an addiction to books - I love books, all kinds of books - and I have a massive collection. many of these Folio editions, which are some of my most prized possessions! The Folio Society is a publisher which produces beautiful editions of some of the worlds best loved books. Their editions are beautifully bound and illustrated and highly collectable. They have been publishing books since it was founded in 1947 by Charles Ede and they are still going strong today, producing high quality, beautiful and suberbly illustrated books. Purchasing books from the Folio Society requires a ... more
  • 7 of 7 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    HoneyBumble

    5 Stars The Folio Society 24/06/2011

    Advantages Advantages Everything

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Nothing

    I would totally recommend ordering your books from The Folio Society. The books are just beautiful. As I lift my heavy books from out of their box and unravel them from thick bubble wrap, the most wonderful brand-new-book smell just fills me with absolute delight. I feel like a child all over again when I find this beautiful bundle on my doorstep. The materials used to make them are of a very good quality and the binding is just lovely - a work of art in itself. The Folio Society have a very interesting collection of books and I am almost certain there is something for everybody, otherwise ... more
  • 26 of 26 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    vickymoo

    4 Stars the fantastic folio society! 02/09/2006
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages BRILLIANT QUALITY BOOKS!

    Disadvantages Disadvantages CAN BE A BIT EXPENSIVE

    Oh how i love the folio society. i love them and yet at the same time, i hate them. Dont get me wrong, i dont hate them because they provide poor quality books and have bad service...no no no. i hate them because i cannot resist thier fantastic books! THE COSTS The cost per book can range from about £19 to anything up to/and over £100. generally most books cost about £25/£30. THE BOOK CATEGORIES ancient history Charles Dickens novels children's books classic fiction eyewitness to war Elizabeth Gaskell series fairy tales and fables history books humour lure of the east memoirs and biographies ... more
  • 1 of 6 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    animusuk

    4 Stars Awesome 30/10/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Fantastic introdutory offer, very good quality

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Very expensive

    Great books, very high quality, but the price isn't within everybody's budget, I do encourage anybody reading this to visit the website first. I joined, got the books I wanted and left again, simply because the choice isn't that great, there was only a few book from their entire range I wanted so that's all I got. The books I did get were fantastic though, the Oxford Dictionary, World Atlas, Greek Myths even the Devils Dictionary. It's not what it sounds like, just a pessimistic and dismal outlook on things, but entertaining none the less. Overall: ok selection, high price, the obligation is a ... more
  • 169 of 169 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 8 jillmurphy

    Member since 08/07/2000

    Reviews written: 284

    5 Stars Posh Books Inc Diamond review 02/07/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Beautiful books, good service, super introductory offers.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Expensive books, smallish catalogue with too many books on empire.

    Books rock, do they not? However, book clubs – largely – tend not to rock. They use our laziness and their insidious editor's choices and minimum orders to wring as much money from us as possible. We often end up with a shelf full of books that we do not really want. Bah. Sometimes, book clubs send us "club editions" printed on cheap, nasty paper and with spines that break on the first reading. Bah again. After the introductory offer and by the time we have paid for postage, book club books are not always that cheap, either. Thrice bah. The Folio Society is not like this. You may have seen ... more
  • 78 of 78 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 Kirsty1

    Member since 23/05/2002

    Reviews written: 165

    5 Stars No Ordinary Book Club 29/11/2003
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages The books are of a unique standard

    Disadvantages Disadvantages There are only about 400 titles available

    I’ve always been of the “just as long as I can read it” school of thought when it comes to books – dirty, moth-eaten, broken-spined books are all fine and dandy with me as long as they’ve got something interesting to say. Paperbacks tend to come and go from my hands as the good ones are lent out to friends and the bad ones get taken straight back to the Oxfam from whence they generally came. That’s me. Not so my lovely husband, oh no. He is of the “lovingly smell the cover and then take the fly-jacket OFF the book when reading it so it doesn’t get damaged” school of thought. I would clearly be ... more
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