In the small town where I live, there is a used book store where I can trade in the books that i've purchased there and receive a 50% of the price credit toward another book. If I bring in a book that I didn't buy there, I receive a 25% credit. I no longer need to own books, I just keep recycling them. Sometimes there are real gems in the shop: A biography of Thelonius Monk, Japanese Zen death poems, 5 20th. C. Greek poets., Keith Richards autobiography, Shakespears plays, a biography of the 4 admirals that won the 2nd WW sea battles, and endless shelves of novels to explore. I've tried to read on a Kindle and didn't enjoy the experience. It was akin to listening to music on a mobile phone. If i travelled I'd change my mind. Reading on a Kindle is better than not being able to read. What else is there to do when waking at 3 am and up for several hours?
Brilliant. Thank you for this excellent overview of our digital lives and how radically they have changed. So many good points that have, over the last few years, tormented me as I scan four digital newspapers (no sound of them landing on the steps), in various languages, and gaze with awe at our bookshelves. Also with nostalgia, longing, whatever that emotion is that bubbles up when a title like The Count of Monte Cristo catches my eye. I repeat, a brilliant piece. I have sent this to many.
In the small town where I live, there is a used book store where I can trade in the books that i've purchased there and receive a 50% of the price credit toward another book. If I bring in a book that I didn't buy there, I receive a 25% credit. I no longer need to own books, I just keep recycling them. Sometimes there are real gems in the shop: A biography of Thelonius Monk, Japanese Zen death poems, 5 20th. C. Greek poets., Keith Richards autobiography, Shakespears plays, a biography of the 4 admirals that won the 2nd WW sea battles, and endless shelves of novels to explore. I've tried to read on a Kindle and didn't enjoy the experience. It was akin to listening to music on a mobile phone. If i travelled I'd change my mind. Reading on a Kindle is better than not being able to read. What else is there to do when waking at 3 am and up for several hours?
You're all set. There's nothing like your bookstore where I am.
Are there enough foreigners there to support a used book store? The one here also carries, German, Dutch, French and Norwegian books.
There is a small English language lending library.
Brilliant. Thank you for this excellent overview of our digital lives and how radically they have changed. So many good points that have, over the last few years, tormented me as I scan four digital newspapers (no sound of them landing on the steps), in various languages, and gaze with awe at our bookshelves. Also with nostalgia, longing, whatever that emotion is that bubbles up when a title like The Count of Monte Cristo catches my eye. I repeat, a brilliant piece. I have sent this to many.