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I like to do most of my book shopping in little mom and pop type bookstores that deal in the trading, buying, selling, of used and old books. For one thing I prefer giving my business to such places over big commercial stores, and they are good places to get classics, as well a lot of the books I read, are not like brand new books, but older books that have been around awhile, and plus, they are cheaper. It costs me the same to get like 3 or 4 books at one of these stores as it cost me to get one single book at a big chain bookstore.
So this quarter for school I am taking 2 different English classess so all the reading for the classes are novels, so I thought to myself instead of paying 20 bucks a pop each for a book and just giving my money to the campus book store, I could hunt down the books I needed at my usual book stores. So of course the reason why their books are so cheap is because they are bought used, so particularly with the classics, sometimes they will already have like notes in them and things highlighted and such, which can sometimes be interesting to read.
And a few of the books I got this time were already scribbled in, they must be popular choices of books for school. But one of the books I am reading now, the person who had it before me, must either not have been the brightest star in the world, or was reading the book for high school, because well some of their notes, and the things they pointed out were just quite obvious, and not very in depth as well there were a few words, that I thought were fairly common words, and not all that difficult but they had underlined them and than wrote in the margins definitions for the words and I am just like really? You had to look that up? Than when I was reading today, there was this one line they had underlined and just wrote about if "What the hell?" like that did not understand what it meant, but I did not find it all that difficult to understand and thought it was really a fairly straight forward line.
6:39 PM - 5/11/2008 -
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