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I’ve never really gotten over the fact that something I love so much could hurt me so bad.

Yikes! That’s too bad. As I understand it, though this comes from film people likely far pickier about this stuff than I am, the Criterion’s initial release of The Third Man is still considered the best-looking transfer (even if they lost the rights to it long before blu-ray as a format arrived), but the current

Ooh, still got that Criterion Third Man DVD? That’s worth a hell of a lot these days, they’ve lost the rights to it since!

Your being the only one in this thread who’s so purposefully misinterpreted just about everything I’ve said should be a great big red flag, but I know it won’t be. I hope it makes you feel special!

Oh, I definitely agree; logistically, the core not expanding beyond that makes the most sense, and works the best, narratively.

Sorry, only just now saw this!

Not at all what Kondo advises.

Then maybe don’t also literally title an article “Throw Your Books Away”? Just a thought. But I am 100 miles past caring about this goddamn post, or any of the rest of all this harping on Marie Kondo, to be honest.

“That’s it? You brought seventeen dollars out?”

Points for quoting one of my all-time favorite Hollywood movies.

Yeah, these days I mostly get produce from the farmer’s market whenever possible. It helps that there’s one at the nearby Metro station a couple days a week! Which is way closer than the main Hollywood one, for me.

If it wasn’t a personal insult, maybe next time don’t hurl insults? You started off claiming I should feel bad for saying throwing good books away is a bad thing. (I still don’t, and I’ll stand by it regardless how secondhand shops make you feel — treating things that can be of use to plenty of others as if they’re

You said “it feels shitty.” Sorry you don’t like anything to do with reselling.

I would think, just like any other place that houses (or sells from) a collection! I know that ever since I started helping buy and price the majority of our incoming stock, a few years ago, it’s made it much easier for me to offer recommendations, or even just find what people come in looking for.

Spoiler alert: He can’t! Smart move on your part.

Stating that all businesses pay less for what they sell than what they charge — the part of secondhand selling you seem to take issue with — isn’t lacking in comprehension or an ability to read, nor is it a false equivalence, but thanks for going from 0 to colossal asshole in hardly any time at all! I love how you

Bye, asshole!

Thanks for being the fifth or sixth pedant to point out the use of an expression I’ve definitely heard before. Again, it was stuck in a sentence with actual, literal suggestions (hence my quoting the entire sentence in the first place?), so... No, not a struggle, I’m just calling out lazy, irresponsible writing where

That’s a bummer! There seem to be one or two left in LA that still (maybe as they’re on the smaller side than, say, the Central one downtown?) let the librarians do more hands-on selection work (they also seem to be the ones having sales most often), but I can see how things might have moved in that direction.

Thanks, you’re only the third (fifth? who cares) pedant to point out to me that “throw it to the curb” is often not meant literally. Other times, guess what? It is! (What do you think everyone who tossed their dried up Christmas trees was told to do with them? Wow, sometimes words mean different things, depending on