• jmill@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    You…buy a book and then throw it away after you read it? Anyone does that?

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      In the movie My Blue Heaven, Steve Martin had a trunk full of the same (stolen) book and his excuse was “in case I want to read it more than once.”

      I’ve heard there are PACs or whatever that buy thousands of copies of politicians books so they become best sellers. Does anyone know where the physical copies actually end up?

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      2 days ago

      I don’t, but plenty of people do, and it’s entirely fine if that’s how they want to read

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        Well no it’s not entirely fine, it’s actually incredibly wasteful. Get a fucking library card if you don’t want to own, gift, or resell the books you read. That’s the Generic You of course.