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by JackFr 2466 days ago
> And those of us from the Triassic period even remember the days before Amazon, where you went to a bookstore, and you hoped they had a book that you needed, and if not, oh well, we can get it in 4-6 weeks.

And that's if you knew it existed. If you were looking for an esoteric subject it was not trivial to discover what books on the topic were in print.