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Originally Posted by Katsunami
That last notice is in all my Del Rey books.
Don't worry, I won't even consider a book damaged as such *for free*, let alone buy it, or it has to be a really, really rare and unobtainable story.
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As a matter of fact, I have a handful of old paperbacks I *bought* that way, a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. There was a (US) Woolworths in the strip mall behind the University campus and they would from time to time do "Five-and-dime" sidewalk sales of all sorts of stuff, including bins of coverless paperbacks for 5 cents.
Being of the omnivorous reader persuasion I had pretty much strip-mined the campus library my first semester so I had no trouble buying a few that caught my eye. None had that particular notice on them but I suspect I probably wouldn't have turned them in. As is, the chain folded a couple years later...
Different times.
After graduation, I used to frequent a local used-paperback place for content; not to sell but to buy. I don't divest books, it just goes against my nature. Found a fair amount of ACE Doubles that way, long after they became legend.
Nowadays, ebooks let me be a bit picky in what I buy thanks to the freebies and cheapies that are readily available (to say nothing of the TBR accumulation in the closet) so I don't actively troll for bargains (more time for reading!) but I won't turn my nose up at anything I find for (legal) sale new or used.
As long as the book is readable, I'm not too proud to grab it.