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To: kalee

Nice website. I first learned of the online used book search engines from a bookstore proprietor in upstate NY (this was in the 1990s sometime; when I’m out of state, I nearly always wind up finding and visiting at least one bookstore; that trip it was like five ;’) and that kicks the hell out of the big new-title retailer websites. Amazon figured that out early on, and affiliated (at first) with one of the big three used book search engines. But I used one search engine to locate a kinda weird book for a friend (he’d given me a list of a half dozen to look for while on the trip, and I *am* a great friend, so...) in a local, or rather nearby bookstore. I’d never used the searches before, obviously. I walked into the place, no one around but a couple of other customers. The proprietor came in from outdoors (he stored much of his inventory in another part of the same old building), saw my printout, and said, “wow, two in a row”. The women waiting ahead of me had come in for another searched title.


33 posted on 10/22/2010 11:01:30 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Nobody mentioned ABE yet? It’s great! And Books for Less over by the Mall of Ga, love that place.


34 posted on 11/14/2010 8:08:50 PM PST by Mmogamer (I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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