$3.12, which is how much paperbacks used to cost when I was a kid (including tax).
Thanks to inflation, that probably should be like $8-9 today, but that still has been the price I've bought most e-books at ($2-4).
I did just spend almost $30 to buy a hardback book, the last volume of Clark Ashton Smith's short stories. Even though you can actually read them free online. But I have the other four volumes and I will no doubt read them dozens, if not hundreds of times, so $27 was worth it for me.
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