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Uncle Robin · 01-27-2020, 02:18 AM

I don't know about "only the rich" but certainly in my country, from the 80s onward (when I began to be aware of prices) books were never anywhere near as cheap as the prices cited above. Even back then, the equivalent of $5US for any book of any sort would have been so low as to cause amazement. My family was lower-middle socio-economically, but despite being a family of voracious readers, we owned few books, relying heavily on libraries. Most of the books we did own were sets brought out when my father's family immigrated/emigrated - which does at least show how much they valued books.

01-27-2020, 02:18 AM	#132
Uncle Robin Diligent dilettante Posts: 3,662 Karma: 52758936 Join Date: Sep 2019 Location: in my mind Device: Kobo Sage; Kobo Libra Colour	I don't know about "only the rich" but certainly in my country, from the 80s onward (when I began to be aware of prices) books were never anywhere near as cheap as the prices cited above. Even back then, the equivalent of $5US for any book of any sort would have been so low as to cause amazement. My family was lower-middle socio-economically, but despite being a family of voracious readers, we owned few books, relying heavily on libraries. Most of the books we did own were sets brought out when my father's family immigrated/emigrated - which does at least show how much they valued books.