Man, I hate to burst the bubble but nobody's out here reading dollar bin books as some bold statement, they just want cheap reading. The print run thing is real for resale though, that's just how the market works. Still, if the story hits for you then who cares what the slab crowd thinks, right?

Reminds me of when I bought this fancy fountain pen to go with my first journal, thinking the right tools would somehow make me stick with it. The pen sat in a drawer for two years while the journal stayed blank. Simplicity wins every time, the tool never was the problem.

Noticed this same thing with all kinds of stuff lately. My roommate was gonna drop $200 on a new coffee maker because hers stopped heating up, turned out to be a $6 thermal fuse. Same deal with my dad's garage door opener, a $4 capacitor from Amazon and it's been running fine for two years now. We got trained to just replace everything instead of opening it up and looking at what actually broke.