{"id":514,"date":"2012-05-12T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-05-12T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/icelandic\/?p=514"},"modified":"2012-05-12T06:00:04","modified_gmt":"2012-05-12T06:00:04","slug":"ordering-from-a-bookstore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/icelandic\/2012\/05\/12\/ordering-from-a-bookstore\/","title":{"rendered":"Ordering from a Bookstore"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day I ordered some books from this used bookstore<\/a>, and I remembered how confusing some online shopping terms might be (doing this particular one I learned a new term too). I chose to show you this bookstore because unlike a lot of sites, while this one does openly ship outside of Iceland and doesn’t require a kennitala (SSN), the entire website is still in Icelandic. There’s probably mistakes somewhere in this post, as always, so don’t take everything to heart – but it’s good enough to help you navigate anyway.<\/p>\n

This bookstore sells old books, not just from Iceland but from other countries as well (including the Faroe Islands) and they also ship abroad. Here’s a messy image I made to help you figure things out:<\/p>\n

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\n(The image has been corrected by icelandiclanguage<\/a> – they’ve helped me out more than anyone else on Icelandic actually, no one else has ever regularly corrected me!)<\/p>\n

After registering:
\nSta\u00f0festing \u00e1 a\u00f0gangi hefur veri\u00f0 send \u00e1 netfangi\u00f0 \u00feitt. \/ Confirmation of registration has been sent to your Email address.
\nEf sta\u00f0festing kemur ekki innan f\u00e1rra m\u00edn\u00fatna, haf\u00f0u \u00fe\u00e1 samband vi\u00f0 okkur. \/ If the confirmation doesn’t come in the following (a few) minutes, get in contact with us.<\/p>\n

The following list of words is taken directly from the site, I didn’t put them in nominative (dictionary) case or change them in any way<\/em>. This is only to make your shopping experience easier.<\/p>\n

\u00d3bundin – This looks like it means “unbound”, but I bought a book from them with this label and it was actually staple-bound. Perhaps it means “not hard-bound”, as the other two books I bought were labeled as bound but were both hard-bound.
\nForlagsband – bound (physically) by a publisher. The staple-bound book I talked about above seems to have been hand-bound by someone who printed the book himself, and no publisher, editor, or translator is listed even though a date, city, and store is – this gives the impression that it was just the owner of the store who bound it. The hard-bound books were done properly by a publishing company, though.
\nK\u00e1pa – dustjacket
\nVer\u00f0 – price
\nkr. – “kr\u00f3nur”, crowns (ISK).
\nAfgrei\u00f0slut\u00edmi – handling time
\n1-3 dagar (1-3 days)
\nTungum\u00e1l – language
\n\u00cdslenska – Icelandic
\nEnska – English
\n\u00c1stand – condition\/status
\nSem n\u00fdtt eintak \u00ed g\u00f3\u00f0u rex\u00ednbandi – like-new copy in good rexine-binding<\/a>. (Thanks to Alex for figuring out what rexine is!)
\nGott eintak – good copy\/edition
\n\u00c1g\u00e6tt eintak – “fine”\/okay copy
\n\u00deokkalegast eintak – fairly good copy
\nGott eintak \u00ed \u00e1g\u00e6tu samt\u00edma bandi – good copy in okay binding
\nLesi\u00f0 og l\u00fa\u00f0 eintak – read and worn-out copy
\nBandi\u00f0 er l\u00e9legt – the binding is poor
\nvantar anna\u00f0 spjaldi\u00f0 og titils\u00ed\u00f0a er a\u00f0eins r\u00edfin – it needs another\/new cover and the title-page (alone?) is ripped
\nV\u00f6run\u00famer – item number
\nP\u00f6ntun – order
\nnr. – “n\u00famer”, number
\nSko\u00f0a reikning – see invoice
\nPanta\u00f0 dags. – “dagsetning”, order date<\/p>\n

Parts from the Email they give you after they receive payment:
\n(Name) \u00feakka \u00fe\u00e9r fyrir a\u00f0 versla hj\u00e1 okkur \u00e1 www.bokin.is<\/a>. \/ (Name,) thank you for shopping with us at bokin.is.
\nP\u00f6ntun \u00fein hefur veri\u00f0 uppf\u00e6r\u00f0. \/ Your order (information) has been updated.
\nVinsamlegast svara\u00f0u \u00feessum p\u00f3sti ef \u00fe\u00fa hefur spurningar um p\u00f6ntunina. \/ Please answer (reply to) this (e)mail if you have questions about the order.<\/p>\n

Hopefully this helps you to order some things on some other sites as well, as at least the checkout vocabulary is often the same. As always, I have no idea what you want to read about or your Icelandic level either, so if you ever have any ideas or comments just let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

The other day I ordered some books from this used bookstore, and I remembered how confusing some online shopping terms might be (doing this particular one I learned a new term too). I chose to show you this bookstore because unlike a lot of sites, while this one does openly ship outside of Iceland and…<\/p>\n

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