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5.33pm
31 March 2008
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parlance said
BTW, Lewisohn should have credited you for your photo, Joe. Not cool.parlance
It’s OK. I’ve taken enough from him in the past. This entire website is indebted to him.
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2.58am
4 August 2013
Offline The extended version is now available in ibooks/itunes in the Australian store. $45 each volume, plenty of 20% off itunes cards around at the moment so worked out to be $36 each. Samples are available of the first two chapters, so I might do some comparisons with the single volume before purchasing.
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18 February 2013
Offline I still haven’t had a dispatch email from Hive yet, Joe. Bet they’ve put me to the back of the cue because I used book tokens! Lol.
2.48pm
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14 April 2010
Offline Looks like me and my copy of the UK Deluxe are now in the same country!
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Offline Father McCartney said
I still haven’t had a dispatch email from Hive yet, Joe. Bet they’ve put me to the back of the cue because I used book tokens! Lol.
Same here. My order history says its due date is 2nd December. Why it will be so long is a mystery but i suppose it better having a rough date than nothing at all.
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6.17pm
8 November 2012
Offline Joe said
parlance said
BTW, Lewisohn should have credited you for your photo, Joe. Not cool.parlance
It’s OK. I’ve taken enough from him in the past. This entire website is indebted to him.
Fair enough. Though I did just have to correct The Examiner, which credited the photo to Little Brown.
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20 August 2013
Offline Zig said
Ahhh Girl said
Amazon.co.uk has dispatched my copy via DHL Global Mail. My expected delivery date is Dec. 3. Anticipation.Mine has been dispatched as well. Initially the delivery estimate was November 20 to 22. Now it says this Friday?!?!
I hope that is true. Thanks for sharing the pics Joe, it looks awesome.
Nov. 20-22 was my original delivery estimate too. I wonder why mine has gotten pushed back? Oh, well. I’ll enjoy it when it arrives.
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12.31am
4 August 2013
Offline Here a some screen comparisons of the contents to both the standard edition (first two images) and the extended volume 1 (last three images for any one that is interested. I have not purchased volume 2 as yet to compare.
These are only approximate pages so they probably won’t match with the printed version as the pages numbers a relevant to the font size, but it gives you the same idea of how much extra is in the extended version compared to the standard. These pages do not also contain the notes on each pages (ie the footnotes, not the back of the book notes) as these are contained on separate pages at the back of the file. However of these footnotes there are about 440 individual footnotes in volume one of the extended version compared to about 190 in the standard. There are 62 pages of end notes in Volume one compared to 54 pages of end notes for the full standard edition. There are also 49 photos/pictures in the Standard edition compared to 55 in Volume one of the extended.
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The introductions and the prologue seem to contain the same information.
Breaking down to each year you can see which areas have the most additional information.
Up to 1945, 82 pages compared to 19
1945 – 1954 119 pages compared to 33
1954 – 1955 35 pages compared to 22
1956 63 pages compared to 25
1957 95 pages comapred to 54
1958 92 pages compared to 53
1959 78 pages compared to 43
1960 176 pages compared to 133
There is also the ‘Swish of the Curtain’ chapter 12 in the Standard version which is about Brian Epstein and George Martin, which is not in the extended version, but the information is spread out through the main text in the appropriate timeframes.
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1 May 2011
Offline Thanks for that Lokipei. Good to see the level of difference between the two.
One thing that strikes me is “The Pre-1971 British monetary system explained”, never in my life would i expect to see that with its own heading in a Beatles book. Seeing the extended version contents makes me gulp and wonder what the heck i’ve got myself into – 59 pages on the period up to 1939, that’s before John is even born! 
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2.20am
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17 December 2012
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Assuming your first reference is the UK standard edition, and not the US (the page numbering differs in the printed version as pages pre- The Prologue are roman numerals, with page 1 being the first page of The Prologue) and that all of 1960 is in Book One of the Extended, here is the total difference for 1961-2, based on Joe’s description. In the UK Standard, 1961-2 run from page 473 to page 870, giving a length of 433 pages. Assuming there is no 1960 in Book Two of the Extended, then 1961-2 run from page 829 to page 1530, giving a length of 701 pages. Meaning that, between them, those two years see an addition of 268 pages.
Remember, any comments on content go in the spoiler thread.
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2.21am
4 August 2013
Offline The Pre-1971 British monetary system explained is in both books, it just doesn’t have a contents seperation in the Standard version. It is slightly more detailed in the extended. I have read the Pool of Life chapter so far in the extended and without going into spoilers it contains a lot of extra fasinating information on their families before they were born and doesn’t feel like just add on.
2.30am
4 August 2013
Offline mja6758 said
Assuming your first reference is the UK standard edition, and not the US (the page numbering differs in the printed version as pages pre- The Prologue are roman numerals, with page 1 being the first page of The Prologue) and that all of 1960 is in Book One of the Extended, here is the total difference for 1961-2, based on Joe’s description. In the UK Standard, 1961-2 run from page 473 to page 870, giving a length of 433 pages. Assuming there is no 1960 in Book Two of the Extended, then 1961-2 run from page 829 to page 1530, giving a length of 701 pages. Meaning that, between them, those two years see an addition of 268 pages.Remember, any comments on content go in the spoiler thread.
And, Lokipei, if you are who I think, like the new name! (If not, sorry for confusing you!)
I assume that I am reading the UK version, being in Australia we usually do, however these were both purchased from the Ibooks Apple store on an Ipad. The pages numbers are approximate as these are dependent on the font that I have set, but both books will be relative to each other. There may be slightly more or less pages in the paper versions, but I made them as approximate as I could, as the e-versions are formatted differently.
Extended volume 2 starts at the beggining of 1961 as I have the sample version as I am yet to purchase it yet.
And yes, I changed my name from meanmrmustid to Lokipei to avoid any confusion with meanmistermustard above!
2.32am
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29 August 2013
Offline I just hope nothing important got cut when they were trimming it down for the Readers Digest edition that I have.
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3.07am
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17 December 2012
Offline So, following on from my earlier breakdown based on the printed versions, though on a wider frame here, and assuming that the Extended printed keeps with of numbering the pre-Prologue pages as roman numerals that the UK Standard uses, the Standard text from Prologue to the end of 1960 runs for 406 pages, while the Extended is 747 pages, giving a difference of 341 pages. This would mean, assuming that the formatting of the Extended is close to the UK Standard, that the extended adds 609 pages of text, with the rest being taken up with extended notes.
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14 April 2010
Offline Lokipei said
There is also the ‘Swish of the Curtain’ chapter 12 in the Standard version which is about Brian Epstein and George Martin, which is not in the extended version, but the information is spread out through the main text in the appropriate timeframes.
That is good to know. I’ve already read that section in the standard edition. It will make more sense to have it “spread out through the main text in the appropriate timeframes”.
Thanks for all the info you provided above.
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7.04pm
3 May 2012
Offline Same as you, mmm, my due date is the 2nd Dec. Why is it going to take so long? Here was I imagining myself tucking into that next week… 
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7.38pm
15 May 2013
Offline Finally received my Extended Ed. today!
Gotta finish the BBC Archives first, though.
Oh, impatience…
8.25pm
10 August 2011
Offline trcanberra said, “I just hope nothing important got cut when they were trimming it down for the Readers Digest edition that I have.”
Love it.
I wonder whether this trilogy will end being a classic, i.e. often quoted, rarely read…
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8.46pm
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14 April 2010
Offline trcanberra said
I just hope nothing important got cut when they were trimming it down for the Readers Digest edition that I have.
I am only about 60 pages into the extended version after reading about 370 pages of the standard. A small sample on the extended I grant you. But I do not believe anything is being “cut”. It’s more a case of the extended version being more descriptive or detailed.
Think of it like this. A weather report in a newspaper will tell you it is going to rain, but the meteorologist on the television weather report will tell you WHY it will rain.
It’s not like the standard version says their drummer in Hamburg was just plain Pete and the extended says Pete Best.
I hope that helps.
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12.58pm
3 May 2012
Offline ”It’s not like the standard version says their drummer in Hamburg was just plain Pete and the extended says Pete Best.”
Haha I’m very glad that’s not the reason I’m coughing up considerably more for this version 
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