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Finding secondhand books

donations people selling books through the store we get a lot of inventory that way people's personal libraries and when they pass away or when they move when they're just downs...

Course: Travel, culture and local lifeSection: Inside The Last BookstoreSubtitles: en

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or

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donations people selling books through

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the store we get a lot of inventory that

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way people's personal libraries and when

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they pass away or when they move when

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they're just downsizing for whatever

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reason it seems like people are always

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selling books and always donating books

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so keeps us pretty busy la earthquake

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source book to be useful one day so

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right now I'm sorting books into various

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categories things that would go directly

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to the store things that were just gonna

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box up but I first started there wasn't

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any technology you know you didn't have

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smartphones there wasn't databases you

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could download with information so I had

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to know all this stuff kind of just by

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feeling my heart I've been doing this

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for so long like I can tell in a split

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second if something's too damaged for

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anybody to buy we'll keep a lot of books

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on hand just to send to hospitals and

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schools and whatnot it's kind of a fancy

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job for anybody that's really in love

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with all different kinds of books and

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loves finding buried treasure I found

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five hundred bucks one time weird love

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letters a pressed pot leaf and A Song of

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Solomon book one time and I don't know

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if with use but like toilet paper and

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you know I hate it when people use

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toilet paper from bookmark it's the

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worst somebody's got a photocopied cover

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of Harry Potter it's like their own

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custom-made

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