Why the fuck are physical books so expensive?
>>24832286They're 3 - 7 dollars...
>>24832294It's a small price when you consider who might follow you around forever if you get them "free."
>>24832294The Brothers Karamazov is almost $20 on amazon rn, where are you buying books for $3?
>>24832315>he doesn't know
>>24832286Is this really a thread we need to keep having
>>24832286Scholarly editions of stuff costs a ridiculous amount of money, but books that most people are are going to buy can be found for <$20 a volume new (not to mention mass market paperbacks, though they destroy themselves quickly enough)
>>24832286You should download a free PDF of whatever book you want, buy paper in bulk, and hand write your own copy.
>>24832286>Bezos expanding beyond book sellingAmazon media shipping used to be ~2-3 bucks.
>>24832315Literally any used book stores. I should have said 1-7. Get out in the world, Jesus Christ.
>>24832315I bought it at an estate sale for $1
What is you guys' most treasured book that you found in a secondhand bookstore? For me, it's a hardcover of Milton's complete works, Oxford edition, the edges of the pages are golden, it's from 1922 or so.
>>24833934There aren't many good used bookstores in my area. I found some Hemingway and Mario Vargas Llosa, and I found Dead Souls by Gogol for 2 euros in Dublin. I have however found some amazing editions of book second hand ebay
>>24832341This is the way. If you are not handwriting your own copies, you are not lit
>>24832286I use the library
>>24832286They aren't, you're just a poorfag. Books have been like $10-$30 for as long as I can remember.Used books are even cheaper. I can walk into some place like HPB and walk out with stacks of books for 5 bucks a pop or less
>>24832286I spend no more than 2 dollars at the thrift store
>>24833934Very nice illustrated edition of Idylls of the King from 1859. It is a little beat up though. Also a cool illustrated collection of Poe stories from the same place.
>>24833934I found a complete edition of Milton's poetry for $5. It was paperback, but finding all his latin and greek stuff in print is hard. My Oxford Classical texts are probably my most treasured books, however, which I always find used.
>>24833934I found Mark Twain's "Mississippi Writings" for $1 in a random thrift shop in Wisconsin. It's not a valuable copy, but it's a good reminder of my year working in that hellscape of a place (Wisconsin, USA).
>>24832341Yes
>>24833934This edition of The Bell Jar. Paid $50 for it.
>>24834964How is it
>>24832286the scribe spends weeks transcribing them for you and you spit at his price tag like this. Shame on you *turns 360° and walks away*
>>24832315Used. But there are plenty of penguin paperbacks on Amazon that cost around $7.
>>24833934An Illustrated Moby-Dick hardback that I got second hand for $5
