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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
When determining what you are willing to pay, do you compare the cost of a new 2011 BMW 328i to the cost of a 1985 BMW 325i with 75,000 miles on it?
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If I were paying to hire it for a week, then yes, I'd pick the cheaper one.
If I was planning to drive it until it died, it might be worth buying the new one.
It's a book. It has the same words on the same pages, the same content.
If you are buying because you want to read it, rather than collect it, there really is no difference.
(And the quality of secondhand books tends to be pretty good, at least in the shops I've been to, the shops don't buy really tatty books, in the same way that hire firms don't have non-running cars.)