ShotokanKid Posted May 30, 2005 Posted May 30, 2005 Used book stores are so awesome! A local one gives you a big cardboard box and for $24.95, you can fill the whole thing up. I got something like 53 books, including textbooks, dictionaries, atlasses, and paperbacks. Just had to share with you sorry if this is totally random! "What we do in life, echoes in eternity.""We must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men."
Sam Posted May 30, 2005 Posted May 30, 2005 wow- thats pretty cool actually; i use abebooks.com to get hold of any obscure martial arts books i need.
The Phenom Posted May 30, 2005 Posted May 30, 2005 Cool! Old books are interesting. Someone can really learn a lot from them.
RaidenTB Posted May 30, 2005 Posted May 30, 2005 We have a neat bookstore in my town.. You just have to buy at least one kg (=~ 2 pounds) of them and it only costs you something like $5.And you can get anything, old maps, antient books, old library books... You name it... Imagination is more important than knowledge.
ShotokanKid Posted May 31, 2005 Author Posted May 31, 2005 RaidenTB-Is that the American equivalent "What we do in life, echoes in eternity.""We must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men."
Sam Posted May 31, 2005 Posted May 31, 2005 ok thats a hell of a lot cheaper than i find books for - i think ill have to start shopping around now!!
RaidenTB Posted May 31, 2005 Posted May 31, 2005 RaidenTB-Is that the American equivalentYes, it ought to be.. I found two conversions from kg to pounds. One said 1kg=2 pounds and the other 1kg=2,2 pounds...They are cheap but the editions are usually quite old... Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The Phenom Posted May 31, 2005 Posted May 31, 2005 "Two and a quarter pounds of jam, weighs about a kilogram."
SaiFightsMS Posted May 31, 2005 Posted May 31, 2005 I have an uncle who routinely visited one of those stores that sells used paperback and also buys them. He would stop in and get a bag of books, take them home and sit them down by his chair. Then as he read them he would put them in a bag on the other side of the chair. When that bag got full he would take it back to the store and trade it in on another load of books.
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