I’m sure plenty do! As I’ve said elsewhere, just like every secondhand bookshop has different buying rules (and some aren’t always accepting stock, either), every library has a different policy. Some in town where I live don’t buy at all, some do because they have weekly sales they’re always restocking, others change…

Thanks for the additional info! I was aware, but like you, I just wanted to offer more options and info to people reading here, and I’m glad you are, too. :)

But what about when I want to describe my total income??

Yes yes you do. Your business can not function at a zero sum level.

(Not that crazy about the produce. Every store has an Achilles’ heel.)

You work in a business who’s model requires you to value someones possessions less than their actual worth when buying them.

This is why I didn’t go into criminology, even though I really loved the science. In reality, none of it is allowed to be neutral (though it absolutely should be), and I couldn’t have lived with myself.

Good god, if people are going to be this defensive about being lazy and shitty about context, forget I said anything.

I’ll never get snide with people about e-readers (as I responded elsewhere, they have their use, especially for those who travel a lot!), but yeah, I think about this a lot.

I’ve already said it elsewhere, but my point was: if you don’t mean for “throw it to the curb” to be taken literally, then maybe don’t include it in a sentence with “buy a Kindle, regret nothing,” which likely was meant to be taken seriously? It’s lazy. Then again, so is this whole article. Because if it weren’t,…

Ugh, flood damage! We’ve had a couple instances of that in my shop (very old building and pipes + terrible next door neighbors), and it really sucks. I’m sorry you had that happen!

Again, not the only suggestion I gave! And it varies, library to library; plenty of them have book sales monthly (or weekly)!

I... gave other options than libraries?

Totally understandable!

lol Seriously.

Ooh, schools! I missed that one, thank you for bringing it up! (And not being a pedantic asshole, like roughly half the replies to my original comment currently are!)

Don’t throw an idiom into a sentence that includes actual advice, then!

Then maybe the author shouldn’t have stuck it literally in the middle of a sentence including other phrases (“buy a Kindle, regret nothing”) not meant to be taken figuratively?

Thanks, but I won’t!

Textbooks are definitely trickier, and that’s mostly because they’re part of their own whole sub-genre, essentially run by textbook printers, who are basically grifters at this point (e.g. printing one or two new pointless lines and dubbing something a new “edition,” needlessly outdating the prior one).