I remember saving up my pocket money to buy books in the days when if it wasn't in print, you just had to keep on looking in every secondhand bookshop. On the one hand, it did mean every new secondhand bookshop was incredibly exciting. (I particularly remember how long I spent looking for various books in Weis & Hickman's Death Gate Cycle; I think my parents found the missing ones for me for a birthday present in the end.) On the other hand... well, there's a lot to be said for just being able to go online and there they are. I still fall in love every time I find a new good secondhand bookshop, but it's not the same now that I'm not desperately looking for missing bits of trilogies and series.
(I think this comment did originally have something to do with LOTR. But then I got carried away. Because bookshops.)
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Date: 2013-03-10 01:05 pm (UTC)(I think this comment did originally have something to do with LOTR. But then I got carried away. Because bookshops.)