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Originally Posted by BeccaPrice
There's a big 2-story B&N near me, I've only been in a couple of times. There's shelves and shelves of *stuff*, and lots of YA paranormals, but not a lot of books that might be interesting to me.
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I've been the same way, even with used book stores. If the local stores didn't carry something I wanted to read, odds are no one around me bought it to trade in. I love hanging around in both the new and used book stores, but vary rarely come home with something. And sometimes, when I did, it was with the attitude that what I'd chosen was better than nothing, and I needed *something* to read.
And the local library hardly ever had anything in, especially in series books. I could bet that 9 times out of 10 the first five to six books in a series had been lost or culled by the time I found the series existed. Disappointing.
For me, it's not so much the ebooks that have made book hunting a lot more fun, but the on-line book sellers and the used book trading sites. If I want something, I could find it and have it shipped! Yeah! Like one huge collection that could have almost any copy I could ever be interested in. I just had to find what 'room' it was in and how much it would cost to get. Then I joined the swap site, and cut costs by mailing my trades out in bulk and ordering in bulk, and could quickly build up a whole series before I got too far into it!
I prefer ebooks now, yet the hunt for them still feels the same as for the physical books. The local stores just never really catered to me, so I can't say I couldn't do without them.
Which is a shame, but I think they lost me long ago, before ebooks.