"Jean B." > writes:

> David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
>> It's harder if you have a serious interest in unusual literary areas.
>> I'd read all the science fiction in the town library before I got to
>> highschool, and the school libraries didn't have all THAT much
>> different. It helped a lot that my 8th-grade English teacher had a
>> large SF collection; he'd drop half a dozen papergacks on me Monday
>> morning in class.
>>
>> That's also probably how I got in the habit of re-reading books.
>
> I can see that. Do you hunt for SF now? I actually do see SF in some
> of my haunts, but I have NO idea what is unusual and what is not.

At this point, it's so easy to find any specific thing online once I
realize I want it. I never really did get into haunting used
bookstores; the return rate was too low. I didn't have access to any
good ones until my own collection was already pretty large, so there
wasn't the stage where nearly every trip would provide me with some
"treasure".

So no, not really.
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