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Originally Posted by Timboli
Been a few years since I last did the rounds of Second Hand or Antique Books stores ... Antiquarian anyone. And it doesn't look as though I ever will again ... but never say never.
Have you found that newer second hand books are harder to get these days, since mass take up of ebooks? One would imagine they would be, and becoming increasingly harder to get as the years roll by.
It seems to me, at least here, that the number of second hand book shops has diminished.
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I live pretty close to Powell's bookstore, which is a mixed blessing. They're huge, and they've basically squashed all of the good used bookstores in the area. They're also big enough to be a tourist attraction in addition to being quite popular with the locals. The end result of that is that their inventory of popular genres (like science fiction) is pretty picked over. But you might just get lucky because there is so much turnover of the inventory. Powell's also has educated book buyers, so hard to find books are priced as such. You don't find out of print stuff from the 80s and 90s at half the cover price like you can at the local mom and pop used book store.