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Originally Posted by HarryT
We all now have access to resources we couldn't have dreamed of before the Internet (yes, boys and girls, there was such a time...). When I was growing up in a small seaside town in Wales, my sole access to books was a small local library and an even smaller branch of W.H. Smiths (a nationwide stationers and bookseller). If anyone had told me that one day I'd be able to instantly access millions of books without leaving home I would have believed them.
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Exactly! I remember the time before the internet. There was only one small bookstore that carried english-language SF and fantasy, where I lived. And they had a very small selection. I remember perusing big fat catalogs with tiny-tiny print, to find something faintly promising and let the store order it for me. The price was naturally pretty astronomical, what with the shipping and all.
I would not have believed such a paradise would ever exist, as it exists today.
