Re:Learning to Read in Your 30s Profoundly Transforms the Brain
by dorchadas on Monday November 05, 2018 @09:03PM
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And always check used bookstores. You can find gems there, and often take chances on new things because they're so cheap. And don't forget libraries! I could wax poetic about all those places.
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Re:Learning to Read in Your 30s Profoundly Transforms the Brain
by rv-de on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @05:47AM
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In Germany we have booklooker.de as a market place for used books. I recently bought an autobiography from there which has out of print for many years. And I found the experience of holding a book in my hand older than myself strangely exciting. That book was printed ten years before I was born. The pages had taken on a yellow shade. Of course I held plenty of really old books in my hand by now. But only then I realized it might become a habit. Especially when there is a choice.
You want to read a Mark Twain? Why not by an edition from before the Great War?
Re:Learning to Read in Your 30s Profoundly Transforms the Brain
by dorchadas on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @07:47AM
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I'm well aware of booklooker, and it's amazing. There's also bookfinder.com here in America. They're some of the best places to start looking if you want rare/old/niche books.