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Originally Posted by BWinmill
People would have died laughing if you told them that they couldn't resell a book 10
years ago because you owned a book.
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It was about that long, well almost, ... more like 8 years ago when I first read about the horror over people buying used books. I used to think of it as quaint and charming.
Like in the movies, a girl walking into a second hand dusty book store and talking to the old proprietor and making a friend, and spending her allowance there.... presented in a charming, whimsical, Norman Rockwell Painting manner....
I first encountered seeing this when I joined bookcrossing. I was fascinated with the world being one "giant large library", where people found a (physical) book, read a book, passed it on, posted about the book they found and where they wound up passing it on. Almost like postcard tracking, or an ongoing journal around the world that gets passed around from person to person.
It never dawned on me that authors and publishers might be infurated at the idea. It never dawned on me that it was considered morally wrong to give books second hand or buy them second hand. I was often broke and that was often my default quick last minute present: A friend who saw me LOVING "Confessions of a Shopaholic", and wanted it, so boom, instant birthday present for her. I was done with it so why not? (it also made the gift more personal)
It didn't dawn on me that there was ever a case where Reduce, Reuse, Recycle was bad!