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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Cookbooks and books put together for a specific charity, are of course, a special case. Yes, there are authors who no longer write, Harper Lee being the most famous case of an author who wrote one book and never another (leading to all sorts of conspiracy theories, btw). There are a lot of gray areas in life, which is why I tend to go with rules of thumb rather than hard fast rules. Still the general principle (buying books encourages authors to write more) holds. It's not a value judgement, but rather an observation of cause and effect.
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I was making more a comment about most of the books our thrift store has. In many cases not only is the author no longer writing, but he is no longer eating, drinking or breathing.
Some books aren't that bad but how many people do you know that still run DOS 3.0 and will they really need the dummies book.
Right now one thrift shop is having a 1-5 books for a dollar sale. Not 20 cents a book, but whether you buy 1, 2,3, 4 or 5 books that is a dollar. If you buy 6,7,8, 9 or 10, it is $2.
Then they will say it is 5 for a dollar. Couldn't you find 5 books if you grab less than a multiple of 5.
Do they think one book is the same as another?