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Around here, meaning Los Angeles in general, used book stores are getting to be a rarity. Most used books are on the internet. I also buy a lot of books of the non-technical sort, at the bookstores in many public libraries. Mostly not technical books but there are a few. Typically, soft cover are 25c to 50c and hard cover a dollar unless they are something really special.
I agree with whoever said that many of the older books are just as good as the new ones, plus IMO, they are often much more clearly written.
I have been collecting technical books, mostly on electronics and photography, for decades. Many if not all of them are not on archive sites like archive.org or tubebooks.org (there are others) including some I have never been able to find. Someone else pointed out that the complete set of the Radiation Lab series is available. Don't remember where I saw them but maybe one of the sites above. I have a couple of actual books but have all of them in scanned versions.
I also prefer "real" books to the electronic versions but my curiosity is satisfied with whatever feeds information to it.
I have a couple of times tried to read a romance novel. I get maybe ten pages into it and the next thing I know is I am startled awake by the book falling on me. There must be people who like them because they seem to sell an awful lot. Perhaps all those sales wind up in the thrift shop. AKA bodice rippers, some fairly well known writers have produced them under pen names.
I am addicted to detective stories, there are good ones, although some seem pretty awful. I use them as sleeping pills.
Most Good Will stores seem to have mostly old clothes.
This is still the -hp-/Agilent/Keysight list I hope, I think I saw a question about a 606A/B go by a while back. Anyway, I couldn't help but comment on this even though its a bit OT.

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Richard Knoppow
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