#secondhand bookstores

[falseandrealultravival]

Books that sell at secondhand bookstores are the valuable ones (Essay)

Nipping Disasters in the Buds

At one time, I was interested in the hippie lifestyle and was working hard to build up that kind of network. I fell in love with a woman I met then, but it broke up, and she chose another man and started a hippie lifestyle in the mountains of Nagano Prefecture, Japan. She used to work at a publishing company and edited a memorial collection of essays for a fellow hippie who had died at that time.

I also bought a copy of that book, "Dirt on My Feet," but it was a terrible book, just a collection of miscellaneous writings by hippies who admired the man. I wrote her a letter: "This book doesn't deserve to be called a book. I admit that he seems to be a good guy, but it can't be called an objective book unless it can appeal to society about his achievements. What did you learn in the publishing industry?" She was extremely indignant about this letter.

At the very least, "Dirt on My Feet" would not sell for a price at a secondhand bookstore. It has no objectivity or generality. In other words, It’s appropriate that it was published for self-satisfaction, and it would have been good to share it as an internal document among colleagues. Incidentally, I also published a book around that time, and that book, "Nipping Disasters in the Buds" is selling for 30 times its original selling price at second-hand bookstores.

Rei Morishita

2024.06.10

古本屋で値段の付く本こそ価値がある（エッセイ）

私は一時期、ヒッピー的生活に憧れ、その種の人脈作りに励んでいた。その頃知り合った女性と恋愛関係に陥ったが破綻し、彼女は別の男を選んで、日本の長野県の山奥でヒッピー生活を始めた。出版社に勤めていたことのある彼女は、そのころ死んだヒッピー仲間の追悼文集の編集を行った。

私もその本「足に土」を一冊買ったが、出来は散々で、その男を慕うヒッピーたちの雑文を寄せ集めただけの本だった。私は彼女に手紙を書いた：「こんな本は、本と呼ぶに値しない。彼が優れているらしいことは認めるが、どんな業績かを社会に訴えることが書けなくては客観的な本とは言えない。貴女は、出版業界で何を学んだのか？」と。彼女はこの手紙にこの上なく憤慨していた。

少なくとも、「足に土」は、古本屋では値段が付くまい。客観性・一般性が皆無だからだ。つまりは自己満足のための出版で、仲間内で見せ合う内部資料にするのが妥当だったと言える。ちなみにその時期、私も本を出版したが、その本「災害の芽を摘む」は、古本屋で当初の売値の３０倍の値段が付いている。

[sweetstarlitnights]

secondhand bookstores>>>

[without-ado]

Armchair Books Edinburgh; secondhand bookshop

[mimisreadingnook]

bookshopping in Amsterdam 🩷

[moonlitlex]

i'm not like. an annotation style elitist. but genuinely the way some of these booktokers annotate their videos confounds me.

you'll see someone with extremely detailed annotations with like 500 sticky tabs in the whole book and it makes you think wow there's so much going on here. and then the annotations are just OMG! and they've highlighted 90% of the book and they've underlined everything. everything they write are just various reactions like omg! cute! wow! i gasped! hot! etc.

it just screams "i want my book to look like a serious reader owns it" but they straight up just don't understand the purpose of annotating. i don't even understand the use case for this type of annotation because like... are you really not going to know it was a cute scene on a reread unless you highlight the entire 5 pages? is this something you need to draw attention to?

it's just like. wild. to see these books with every single free space covered in annotations. the way someone writing a thesis about that book would do. but then you look at the content of the annotations and it is confusingly just someone's immediate reactions to what they've read.

which is like. it's good. that's definitely a part of annotating. but annotation is a tool to understand and analyze a text. and this is not what is going on.

and what is MORE confounding is when people who annotate like this SELL THEIR ANNOTATED BOOKS???? FOR MONEY??? THAT PEOPLE BUY ON PURPOSE????

GIRL LISTEN TO ME YOU DO NOT NEED SOME OTHER RANDOM BITCH SCRIBBLING HER FIRST REACTION ALL OVER A BOOK WHY DO PEOPLE BUY THESE WHAT THE FUCK

[gwenadelaide]

Cats 🤝🏼 books

[sweetnnaivete]

who wants to go to my local library with me :3 (i will be fawning over the kid's section i practically grew up on, the “art of” books, the wide array of films and tv boxsets, and the new arrivals, just so yk)

[koshercosplay]

got this amazing find at a secondhand jewish bookstore yesterday for only $2!!

[whatthefoucault]

I’ve been really nervous about posting this finished painting because it took a very long time to paint - I think getting all those tiny books drawn, painted, lined, and shaded, was a good cumulative 16 hours over about a month? I just wanted to send these Nigel and Antwan here on a lovely date to the kind of enchanted bookshop where every mismatched shelf is packed full of every conceivable book you might be looking for, and there are plenty of quiet corners among the wiggidy-wonky stacks to hide and quietly thumb through a comprehensive guide to local birds, or have a little cuddle with your sweetheart. (The fellas didn’t mind how long this took to paint, because it just meant they got to spend more time on their date.)

[hermesmoly]

finally have my own physical copy of euripides helen

[elleselanguitsansfin]

fabulously successful quick book shopping trip at the piggery second hand bookstore in whangarei! we were in a hurry so I didn't get to browse through all the sections but I still got a collection of russian plays, the prophet by kahlil gibran, selected verse from baudelaire, some seneca, and a textbook on historical linguistics (of which one of the authors was from the university of waikato, reminding me that sometimes things do actually happen in new zealand). very satisfied!!

[cronicasdelholoceno]

12/10/24, Barcelona.

[without-ado]

Oudemanhuispoort Book Market l Amsterdam (x)

[aaronstveit]

deep end reading list

here is a list of all the books mentioned in deep end! i have read every book on this list except for Anna Karenina, so this this also doubles as a book rec list!

↬ Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy ↬ The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison ↬ The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo ↬ Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie ↬ The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson ↬ Hamlet by William Shakespeare ↬ Persuasion by Jane Austen ↬ Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë ↬ Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee ↬ Normal People by Sally Rooney ↬ The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin ↬ The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White ↬ The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin ↬ I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman ↬ Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson ↬ Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente ↬ Cain's Jawbone by Torquemada ↬ The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei ↬ Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie ↬ Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

[gatomontanyes]

| Summer 2023, Valencia, España

Throwback to Summer last year when we found this interesting secondhand bookstore in Valencia, Spain. It's called El Club de Los Libros Libres. The rule is simple, bring as many books you want then exchange for the same amount of "new" books you want. It's a cute idea to recycle and give new life to these old books.

There are multiple languages aside from Spanish and Valencian, such as Italian, German, and French. I found some Russian books too.

If you are in Valencia, perhaps take a quick stop. It's located very close to Platja de la Malva-Rosa.

[sparklygraves]

btw the goat place is this 🐐📚📚📚💞they also have a bunch of cats 🐈‍⬛🐈🐈‍⬛

& here’s the 2am fic apt bookstore🌖🌗🌘🌑

the bookmobile 📖🚙✨

the island one was here & actually it was a library but whatever- it was awesome & I read a Goosebumps book about a haunted piano there ❤️🎹🪑

the mall bookstore is a shoe store now. I got so many Amelia Atwater-Rhodes books from there & also Tithe & Valiant by Holly Black📚🖤🧚