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Expensive Books Quotes

I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn’t have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they’re all somewhere in the basement of my folks’ house Picture Quote #1

My specialty as a collector is books that almost have value. When I love a book, I don’t buy the first edition, because those have become incredibly expensive. But I might buy a beat-up copy of the second edition, third printing, which looks almost exactly the same as the first edition except that a couple of typos have been fixed Picture Quote #1

Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they’re familiar with Picture Quote #1

Things that people will say to me, mostly, is that you shouldn’t have all these books. It’s too expensive Picture Quote #1

[People in 1600s] didn’t have many books. They would have been staggered by the personal libraries we have today, because books back then were incredibly expensive Picture Quote #1

Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence Picture Quote #1

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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn’t have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they’re all somewhere in the basement of my folks’ house (Expensive Books Quotes) My specialty as a collector is books that almost have value. When I love a book, I don’t buy the first edition, because those have become incredibly expensive. But I might buy a beat-up copy of the second edition, third printing, which looks almost exactly the same as the first edition except that a couple of typos have been fixed. (Expensive Books Quotes) Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they’re familiar with. (Expensive Books Quotes) Things that people will say to me, mostly, is that you shouldn’t have all these books. It’s too expensive. (Expensive Books Quotes) [People in 1600s] didn’t have many books. They would have been staggered by the personal libraries we have today, because books back then were incredibly expensive. (Expensive Books Quotes) Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence (Expensive Books Quotes)