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Share your best stories of times you went to your LUBS (local used bookstore) and the encounters you had there.

>> No.9224729

i've only found clipped nails, hair, really old bus tickets, candy wrappers, and one time i found a photograph of two ~20 year old girls for some reason.

>> No.9224736

>go to local used book store
>browse and then buy some books
>go home and read them
happened a few times

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>>9224736
Don't you ever approach the cutie girls whom go there to ostentatiously browse books, in hopes of meeting bookish fellows, such as yourself, anon?

>> No.9225383

>>9224717
>tfw the cashier tries to flirt with you
I don't want to go back again please I just wanted some books.

>> No.9226125

>Go to used book store
>pick up 4 books for less than $20
>one book is about patterns, written in Russian
>Date of Publication is 1965
>book is $1
>Buy it.

That's probably the oddest encounter I have with my LUBS. There's a few LUBS I go from time to time, but the one I do frequent most is my Church bookstore, which as an extension to the Church itself, has shelves jam packed with books, music (chants and orchestral) and icons galore.

>> No.9226164

>>9224717

No encounters, but right as I was starting to look into getting a book with details on a range of mythological traditions, I found this awesome gigantic old hardcover textbook at a used book store that fit the bill exactly for cheap.

>> No.9226174

>go to used bookstore with my mother
>see qts everywhere
>know I can't hit on them because mom
>make effort to not be seen with her
>my mother has coupon, so she's buying everything
>I stand there awkwardly as if I'm some sort of manchild
>in line
>qts in front, behind and at the counter
>please god kill me now

>> No.9226218

>>9224717
I genuinely will not touch a used or library book. I know it's weird and a bit autistic, but I don't know were they've been. My hometown library had to brick up their book chute after people shit in it. The book chute was at chest height.

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>>9226174
>go to used bookstore with my mother
>see qts everywhere
>know I can't hit on them because mom

I know that feel, lad.

>> No.9226259

>>9224717
One time I saw Shadow & Claw. Nobody in Australia aside from me reads Gene Wolfe as far as I know so I thought this was interesting. I'd have bought it if I had cash on me.

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>>9226174
>can't hit on them because mom
>as if I'm some sort of manchild

Anon please.

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>>9226218
>My hometown library had to brick up their book chute after people shit in it. The book chute was at chest height.

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>>9226262
>as if I'm some sort of manchild
>he doesn't spend quality time with his mother, going to bookstores and other such places

How fucking pleb can you be?