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by lamasery 52 days ago
Hitting an estate sale and lucking into someone whose tastes run similar to one's own can get a person whole libraries for cents per book. It's the kind of thing a certain kind of reader can dabble at for a few months one lazy year early in life, then stop and never do it again because they've accumulated a lifetime or more of good reading material for the cost of a very-few dinner-n-a-movie evenings.

(This is where many used book stores get the bulk of their stock, aside from, these days, buying out other used book stores that are closing)