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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
I'll still stop by the second-hand book store if I'm in town. And I'll still come home with new second-hand books  |
It took me a while to stop doing it. I absolutely adored going to second hand book shops.
The last time I got a couple of second hand books, was 1 year ago.
It is my guess, but I guess it is a pretty sound one.
Our neighbour, a few houses down the street was moving. He was about 70 years old. He had a big rubbish skip. He was getting rid of a lot of stuff. Emptied the skip once and refilled it again. Our postman, our friend as well, told me that the man is throwing away lots of books.
Then one day, when I returned from work I remembered that I have to pick up our empty orange rubbish bin (recycling stuff that has been emptied on this day) from the road and put it back to our garden.
I went outside, grabbed the bin - it is heavy! I looked inside....and discovered some 20 books in it. The youngest was from 1965 I think. I didn't need most of them, so I got rid of some of them, some that were in a better condition I took to the nearest second hand shop, but some of the books I left.
I don't remember which ones I left for myself, 2 or 3 I think.
2 others I gave to our friend. I knew she loves old things because she feels like they have history behind (she and her husband often buy old things on auctions). She also used to be religious Christian, until she was excommunicated for...a sin. I gave her 2 Bibles dated 18xx year! One of the bibles was not a traditional one, but had 3 more parts that are omitted in the modern Bible. She said she could never read it before, when she was part of the Church but she felt like it was time to read the forbidden bits. She was so happy
It is still a mystery why he took all the trouble to put the books into my rubbish bin. He had close neighbours and he had a rubbish skip.
Probably I look very intelligent and he decided I am a reliable person who can find a use for the books
"astra ducks his head"
P.S. I am not religious and definitely not a Christian, so it would be a waste for the Bibles to sit on my bookshelves but I just could not throw such old books into rubbish bin. I simply could not.