Day 276: About reading
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Vienna 1971—A Student Journal
A year of music, study, travel, sightseeing &
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Day
276 — About reading
04-May-1972
(Donnerstag–Thur.)
TRANSCRIPT
Mostly a lot of horn playing. Fairly good day.
Beginning to do a lot of reading lately.
REFLECTIONS
Reading.
Just a
good, normal day. I mention that I am reading more.
I’ve always liked reading. It’s enjoyable and it
relaxes me a lot. I’ve read most of my life, although
there were periods where I didn’t read at all. Why?
The price of books. I remember when paperbacks
suddenly jumped from say $2.50 per book to about
$5.99 or something. I just stopped buying them—for
many years. The book business lost a good customer.
Today, paperbacks are $7.99 to $12.99 and trade books
up to $24.99 and up. Just too expensive. Yet, I buy a
lot and read a very lot. Where do I buy my books?
Costco $4.99 paperbacks and hardbacks at $15.99.
They’re heavily discounted. At Barnes and Noble, only
when discounted. Sure, I’ll buy a deeply-desired new
book at regular price, but only once in a while.
Printed books may go by the way of the dodo bird. Buy
them now.
John
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