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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
Yes, and yes.
We have 3 or 4 Half-Price Book stores in town (lost track when I pretty much stopped buying paper books). Three of them on are on "loop" on our outerbelt (highway circling the city). Some Friday nights after work I would hop in the car and hit all three, one after the other and come home with a hundred books!
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Ha, I lived in Columbus in the pre-ebook era and haunted those stores regularly, but I would usually just hit one at a time and rarely walked out with more than five or six books, though it took considerable restraint. I miss browsing a huge, random collection like that, but the recommendations that reach me here on MR, on Amazon, and elsewhere online are probably more effective at getting good books in front of me. Still, it felt like a treasure hunt every time.
With ebooks, I don't think I've ever bought more than five or six at once. My biggest haul of pbooks from HPB was maybe 10 or 12 at one time.