Used Book Sale

[nana kid]

There have been questions about where to buy used books

 

Neilson Hays Library

195 Surawong RD     (corner Silom Soi 22)

BKK

29 October--6 November       closed Monday

9:30-6 PM    in the building

 

Big library             usually lots of books for sale the first couple of days

I believe this is the only English language library in Thailand

[GammaGlobulin]

Where would you put those Used books you buy?

 

 

 

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Maybe you have a place to put all your used books, like this place?

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Or, if you live in a place like this, then you need to keep your million books on a thumb drive...

 

 

 

Some guys love to read, no matter where they might end up.

 

 

 

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Homeless guys...REALLY need BOOKS, even more than food, in many cases.

 

Great topic.

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This topic is near and dear to my heart.

 

Almost 50 years ago, when I was living under martial law, one would search used book stores, hours on end, for any book that might strike one's fancy.

 

Many of the books I found had been taken out of the garbage, or out of hotel rooms, or off ships docked at places like Keelung or Kaohsiung. 

 

You never knew what you might find.  Just a box of chocolates.

 

Most books were dirty and dusty, having been abused, yet still readable.

 

I read a few titles written by obscure authors, and these were the best.

 

At that time, the books were under a dollar.  Still, if one were a fast reader, then one needed to haggle. If you read two books in a day, then the cost of reading mounted up.

 

Used book shops did not look like what they do, today.

There were no aisles to walk.

Mostly, just stacks and stacks of dusty books.

 

There was one book, out of the many, which I wish I still had; the title escapes me.

 

This was a book dustier and dirtier than the others, yet memorable.

 

This was a book about a sea captain who had destroyed his life through drink.

Far better than the similar book, Under the Volcano.

 

Such a fetching tale.

Such a depressing tale, too.

 

These days I do not read.

I am too distracted by TikTok.

 

I would dearly love to, once again, find this book about the doomed sea captain in some dusty used book store.

 

Yet, nevermore, I fear.

 

The days of reading books is over.

 

Now, in truth, it's just Fahrenheit 451, all the way...

 

 

 

 

  

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How many copies of Madame Bovary have you found in a Thailand used book store?

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