"Tristán White" wrote in message
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"Bob Wood" wrote in news:rhK6g.2184$Da5.975
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Wrong assumptions. What you need to do is to buy your Z1-6 Travelcard
in the normal way PLUS a CDR or SDR from Z6 boundary to Reading (you
will have to do this at a National Rail station. The combined fare is
likely to be little different from the Reading Travelcard.


Is that cheaper than getting a Z-1 Travelcard and then getting a cheap
one-
day return from Paddington-Reading-Paddington?

But the OP said he wanted to "pootle around London (lots)"; that method
would restrict his pootling to zone 1.