I picked shoes simply as an example of something you can't do in a store, they're obviously quite different to books.
FWIW I don't think your use case is a problem either Hitch, freebies are freebies, and if a book is so riddled with issues you can't make it even say 20% of the way through without them driving you up the wall, then those are bad books.
Also, I'm not sure where the idea that bookstores don't sell returned physical books at full retail value came from. It's certainly not the case in the US, unless a book has been damaged to a pretty decent degree it just gets put back on the shelf. I don't know how Amazon handles their returned books, but I'd imagine it's similar.
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