Good point about second hand stuff. But I was more thinking about the viability of high street shops in the age of Amazon, triggered by the traditional Christmas headlines of "Nobody is Buying Our Stuffs!" and today's announcement about Waterstones dropping 9% of their turnover (or profit, or something) and sacking their chief exec.
I used to work at the Oxfam bookshop on Byres Road in Glasgow. I have to agree that shopping secondhand is ace. Stuff comes through the door there that you would never, ever see in any high street shop or on Amazon. I have some great finds from there. Also, I like to read books in hardback. Nobody likes to buy books in hardback, though, so they tend to be about the same price as a secondhand paperback, making them actually affordable. Bonus.
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And serve Waterstones right for being shit.
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