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Originally Posted by stumped
Pre Amazon, pre kindles, no one I knew actually bought books, that was something only rich people did. You wanted something to read, you joined a library...
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Even as a 12 year old I was buying my own books and my family was not rich by any means. My father was an NCO in the military. I worked even then. I was required to save the majority of money I made. The rest went to buy books. The only books I did not buy were the ones I traded with an Uncle and a grandfather for. Lots of people bought books pre kindle. Hell, they were less then than eBooks are now. I could buy a new book for $0.35 back then. There were a surprising number of bookstores and I wonder how they survived when only the rich could afford books. I think by pre-kindle you must mean before the printing press was invented. Then only the rich could afford books.
Apache