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Originally Posted by wyndslash
i've also thought of this before, and i wish this were possible. i really do feel badly for independent bookstores, but unfortunately, money talks with a really loud voice. i try to do what i can to help by buying in local bookstores (my local store also offers to cover the books with plastic for free, so that's an added incentive to buy) when i see something i like there.
as i've mentioned on other threads before, i was recently in a Barnes & Noble when I was in Hawaii, and what really irked me is that they (unlike the shops here) have all the books out of their plastic packaging. it prevented me from buying one book on top of my TBR list because the pages were already dirty, and i wasn't paying $26 for a dirty book. i wonder why can't they just have one copy open for viewing and the rest still in their packaging. is this a cultural thing, i wonder? most people here don't mind a setup like that at all, but i guess it might be different in the US.
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A cultural thing, for sure. Where are you from? The high-end collector sets are often wrapped in plastic but that is certainly the exception. They're the only 'real' books I buy anymore also.
If I think about it, yea, sometimes the copies of books of the normal shelves are thumbed by others (though I wouldn't categorize them as dirty). When I bought those, I'd certainly look for the least-thumbed copy. It's never been enough of an issue to make me forgo buying.