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Originally Posted by issybird
I think some of you kids are missing the point.  MMPBs were cheap and portable. Indeed, the first line of MMPBs produced in the US were called Pocket Books. If you were a person who wouldn't leave the house without something to read, they were life-changing. Their defects resulted from their virtues.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I wouldn't read one now. But they were great. They made it possible to own a bunch of books and always to have something to read. Why disparage them? And they could still serve that exact purpose, too. As well as being lendable and giftable. |
And because they were cheap you could find book racks in almost any store.
I always carried a book with me. I still do, even if it is an electronic one now. They fit in a pocket perfectly. And when I started wearing a suit every day, I carried them in the inside pocket of my jacket. No one could even tell it was there. I couldn't do that with hardback books.
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