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How much are you willing to pay for a book? (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by Estelagorn@alien.top to c/books@metacritics.zone
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I like to get my hands on the cheapest edition I can in the best condition at that price. If the words in the book are the same as a more expensive one, I’m getting a better value, in my opinion. Then if it’s a story that becomes really important to me I might consider upgrading to a “nicer” or collectors version, and keep the old ones as lender books.

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[–] RobotMonkeytron@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

For personal enjoyment, the most I've spent was about 50 bucks for an original advance reader's copy of Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, which I love, but will just read on Kindle or whatever. For college books, just ick, those were nasty expensive 20 years ago, let alone now.