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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with information and internet add... by 50 on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @06:50PM (#34717502)
One of my favorite pastimes (which allowed me to have a more fruitful relationship with my computer): Living in the Santa Cruz mountains, sauntering in the woods, swimming in a creek, basking in a meadow, biking down into town for coffee and bookstore scouring, and taking the city bus back up. It's just not the same in the Los Angeles greater area.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with information and internet add... by labrador on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @07:31PM (#34717930)
The bookstore scouring has sadly gone way downhill in Santa Cruz since the closure of Logo's used books.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with information and internet add... by 50 on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @08:48PM (#34718686)
I experienced the closure of The Literary Guillotine, the small, academic bookstore, in the fall of 2019. But on the other side of the same block, there's Bad Animal[1]: not interested in the modern look and the restaurant half, they have an incredibly impressive selection of used/new books at reasonable prices - it was my go-to spot.

There's wishing the town returns to being affordable because high costs only rids places of their proper energy. Despite being in my mid-twenties, these days I, maybe foolishly, dream of living in Bonny Doon.

1. https://www.badanimalbooks.com/

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