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Originally Posted by HarryT
Unlike you, I don't regard a book as a "lifetime investment". I regard spending $10 on a book as on a par with spending $10 on a takeaway pizza.
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Originally Posted by rlauzon
Which puts you in the minority of book readers.
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Do you, by any chance, have any numbers to support that? I'm not asking to be a jerk, I'm genuinely interested. I ask because I'm not so sure it's true. One heck of a lot of fiction gets read that is clearly in the "disposable" category--especially category fiction. I see eight miles of used book shelving just in one store. I see used books sold on sidewalk tables all over the city. I see Amazon sellers and ABE doing lots of business.
Someone is clearly buying a lot of books and just throwing them away.