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An Old Book

August 10th, 2008 Brad Leave a comment Go to comments

My friend Simon and I were at Half-Price Books this afternoon, and I was having a wander around the Computer Science and Technology stacks, and I happened to find a copy of Steven Levy’s, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution.  It was a slightly used copy; the pages were aged to a mild yellow, but there didn’t appear to be any tears, or frayed pages.  So I went ahead and bought it.  When I got home I started reading it, and happened upon a receipt from the ASUC (UC Berkeley) bookstore from 1989, that the prior reader had been using as a bookmark.

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  1. August 12th, 2008 at 14:51 | #1

    OMG, I absolutely LOVE Half Price Books! I used to go to Milkwaukee almost every summer for a few years, and they had tons of them their. My suitcase would be filled with books that I no longer needed, and I’d go in and trade ‘em, then return home with a suitcase full of new ones :)

  2. August 12th, 2008 at 18:57 | #2

    Yeah, Half-Price Books is the best bookstore! Whenever I go, I’m flabbergasted by the outstanding selection they have, and dismayed on how much their name is a misnomer: most books are less than half price!

  3. August 15th, 2008 at 04:49 | #3

    I don’t believe in 1989. This is yet another propaganda campaign launched by the Cascadians.

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