Expression: "Within 10 minutes of your email I was at the front..."

[Tom]

Hi

Could you please tell me if the following sentence is correct and natural? The writer was in a net cafe and received an email--and within ten minutes he bought two books from the front shop.

[Yankee]

Hi Tom

I'm just a little unsure about what you mean by 'front shop'. Do you mean that there a book shop at the front of the net cafe?
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[Tom]

[Alan]

Hi Tom,

There's something about 'within ten minutes of your email' that bothers me a little and I would be happier with something like ' within 10 minutes of reading/getting/receiving your email'.

Just a thought.

Alan
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[Yankee]

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I'd agree with you there, Alan. But I'd also say that those words might be omitted (especially in informal language) if the receipt of or reading of a particular email had already been mentioned in the broader context.
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