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Model Citizen
Join Date: May 2007
Location: The Voodoo Lounge
Posts: 19,577
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• Last swap meet I went to (2019) I was talking with the fella who has the book table. He had his Vanagen full of all the Porsche literature you want to see, but no one's buying all the stuff we all filled our shelves with. He had a first edition of The Unfair Advantage, so he made at least one sale that day, but the internet has put his life as a reseller on the slow track.
• When mom and dad needed to get the house cleared out because they didn't need it anymore, the contents of dozens of bookshelves were sent to the landfill after trying every avenue we could come up with to get them in the hands of readers.
Pretty sad, really. Gutenberg didn't see this one coming.
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