David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
> "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.

It does get increasingly difficult to find old books that you want
and don't have. True, true, true. I did have a great find today
though: a bound volume 2 of Boston Cooking-School Magazine. Even
the single issues are extremely hard to find, at least the early
ones (before the name was changed). Unfortunately, it started
pouring, and I left it in the car, so I can't look through it
tonight.

--
Jean B.