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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
I remember buying cover-free books as a teenager and having no idea that the missing cover meant anything more than "this got torn at some point." (I think this was a few titles in thrift stores, so likely single copies grabbed from dumpsters rather than entire crates grabbed for resale purposes.)
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One of our local stores (can't remember if it was a "drugstore" or a Woolworth) used to sell them for a quarter. And like you, I had no idea that was illegal. It was the only way I could afford my romance book habit. I used to make my own covers with construction paper.
I don't remember when those stopped being available, but I remember still having some of those books in the late 70s when I was in high school.