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My cousin called my 25 cent yard sale paperbacks 'junk' and I haven't stopped thinking about it
My cousin was over at my place in Boise last Saturday and saw the stack of 14 old paperbacks I grabbed for a quarter each at a yard sale on Maple Street, and she said 'why even bother with those when you can just get everything free on your phone.' I told her half the fun is the cracked spine and the name written inside from 1987, plus I found a Vonnegut I'd never seen in that edition. Does anyone else get weird looks for loving the beat up old stuff more than the shiny new copies?
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jamieh7622d ago
You ever open one and find a receipt or a bus ticket from 30 years ago? That's the stuff you can't get on a phone. I had a similar thing happen when my sister gave me grief over a box of old sci-fi paperbacks I paid a buck for, and honestly I just stopped explaining myself. The cracked spine and the name in pen are the whole point. A screen can't give you that.
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