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sweetandsour wrote: 19 Nov 2024, 08:34
FredS wrote: 13 Nov 2024, 11:18 I bought a stack of local history books at auction and I'm working my way through this one, published in 1959. It's cool enough on it's own, but I found someone else's treasure map notes inside!

Also, this book was published only 3 years before I was born but it's publication date is closer to some of the 1800's mining and exploration it describes than it is to today. Good grief I'm old.

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I love the pressed flowers, 4 leaf clovers, and notes that I've found, too. A pleasant reminder of someone else's life.
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Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol
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Hugo Drax wrote: 19 Nov 2024, 16:31
sweetandsour wrote: 19 Nov 2024, 08:34
FredS wrote: 13 Nov 2024, 11:18 I bought a stack of local history books at auction and I'm working my way through this one, published in 1959. It's cool enough on it's own, but I found someone else's treasure map notes inside!

Also, this book was published only 3 years before I was born but it's publication date is closer to some of the 1800's mining and exploration it describes than it is to today. Good grief I'm old.
I always try to buy used books instead of new, via Amazon and elsewhere. One never knows what will be found tucked away or written in a book, especially older books.
I love the pressed flowers, 4 leaf clovers, and notes that I've found, too. A pleasant reminder of someone else's life.
Thriftbook . com is my go to. I've been surprised at the number of signed copies I've unknowingly received. I asked Durangopipe if, as an author, the used book market bothered him since he loses out in payments. Being his gracious self, he said it did not, he's just happy people read his work. Then I fessed up to buying four of his books used myself.

I print my name and the acquisition date inside the cover of my books, hoping those who follow will add to the record.
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FredS wrote: 20 Nov 2024, 08:57 Thriftbook . com is my go to.
Well, that just cost me 20 bucks.
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JimVH wrote: 20 Nov 2024, 10:45
FredS wrote: 20 Nov 2024, 08:57 Thriftbook . com is my go to.
Well, that just cost me 20 bucks.
Sorry?

I checked in at lunchtime and found a lot of my wish list books were in stock. Picked up 6. Dropped $48.
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The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemisin
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FredS wrote: 20 Nov 2024, 08:57
Hugo Drax wrote: 19 Nov 2024, 16:31
sweetandsour wrote: 19 Nov 2024, 08:34
I always try to buy used books instead of new, via Amazon and elsewhere. One never knows what will be found tucked away or written in a book, especially older books.
I love the pressed flowers, 4 leaf clovers, and notes that I've found, too. A pleasant reminder of someone else's life.
Thriftbook . com is my go to. I've been surprised at the number of signed copies I've unknowingly received. I asked Durangopipe if, as an author, the used book market bothered him since he loses out in payments. Being his gracious self, he said it did not, he's just happy people read his work. Then I fessed up to buying four of his books used myself.

I print my name and the acquisition date inside the cover of my books, hoping those who follow will add to the record.
So I received my first order from thriftbook today. Sure enough there is an inscription inside the cover of one of the books (1976 printing of Andy Adams’ Campfire Tales).

“For Ben - (I looked at the back of your belt!)
Merry Christmas. Thanks for asking me to dance.
Karen”

I kind of want to know if Karen landed herself a cowboy.



Oh, I’m reading Campfire Tales.
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Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
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I'm reading everything I can find about the Kingston L4 carburetor.
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Eye of the Blackbird: A Story of Gold in the American West Hardcover by Holly Skinner
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