I buy books because some of them have become artworks. With sprayed edges, gorgeous dust jackets, and even pretty endpapers, they are not only there to be read, but they look good on shelves. Honestly, I would buy books either way, but I love the way books have evolved.
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For #7, a lot of people are collecting not to keep but to flip. They're grabbing up multiplies so they can sell them at jacked-up prices. It's a huge business, and it's crazy to see what people will pay for a bit of plastic.
I'm a college professor. I'm reminded nearly every day that I am old. Especially since some of my students are the same age or younger than my 17-year-old.
As an English professor, if a student attempted to write a sentence longer than my class, I would probably give it an F for being pretentious, wordy, and unnecessarily long. A sentence that long would be unjustified.
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