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>Go to Goodwill to buy new shirts
>Pass the used books section
>Take a look, what will I find?
>Self-help books
>New age/pseudoscience
>Pop history
>Books by celebrities
>No-name author genre fiction
>Stephen King
>Twilight
>Harry Potter
Have any of you made good finds at a thrift store?

>> No.16189923

>>16189895
I bet you felt like an epic patrician in that situation while thinking to yourself "I'm gonna post about this on /lit/ later"

>> No.16189932

>>16189923
Actually I felt bad for the books. Like as objects, not as literature. Imagine existing entirely as something unwanted. Someone got those books first, gave them to a thrift shop, and now they'll go unbought.

>> No.16189955

>>16189895
I don't know what else you expected to find in a goodwill
If you want more to choose from go to a used books store

>> No.16189967

went to a book store once in my life and i felt this way
fuck book stores! bezos' got my back.

>> No.16189993

Retard don't know how to look lol. I got all kinds of books from goodwill

>> No.16190581

>>16189895
I always buy all the Bibles they have and keep one in my truck to give to a stranger after I tell him the good news.

>> No.16190592
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>>16189932
Don’t feel bad for soulless products

>> No.16190597

>>16190592
How do you know they're soulless. Energy is conscious. Innert matter causes energy in the future. It has spirit-potential stored within.

>> No.16190657

>>16189932
Yeah, they were just trying their hardest to do their job well. I guess at least they ended up at goodwill and not a landfill.

>> No.16190677

>>16190657
They probably miss being a tree. Readerless books are more wasteful than a spam email.

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>>16189895
it's your own fault. you should have made cosy charity bookshops like oxfam books instead

>> No.16191163

>>16190597
Any object that doesn’t offer itself as material for symbolic exchange but instead functions within the constellation system of objects is soulless anon-kun

>> No.16191196

Just got A Frolic of His Own by Gaddis and Persuasion by Jane Austen at Goodwill a couple days ago for 1$ each. I've found like 30-50 good lit books there over the years. Sometimes its even better than HPB. You're probably going to a shit location. Go to stores near the rich part of town and you will find a lot better stuff. My store is just outside the city so it gets all kinds of peoples donations.