How cool!

mimipal:

Books are hard to resist!

Oh yes! I swore I wouldn't bring that many home.

Oh well. It happens!

Nice haul!

You did good!

Thankz!

Very existential... That seems like that's what is often available...

If the pricing is anything like we have at the library book sales... They are really "way too cheap". I've kind of gotten into arguments buying "book sale" books at the library... "No that's too much to give us..."

JigmeDatse: interesting. These were $2 for hardbacks and $1 for paper. I'm sure they want to make sure they sell.

Yeah, that's more than I was even offering it was about $1.00 for hardbacks and $0.25 for soft cover, and they thought that was too much.

Wow! 🙄

Maybe looked too poor to be able to afford paying that sort of money? It could have been a day I'd spent all day out only to pop in at the library because I had time before the next bus.

If they can't afford them, it's a good reason to get a library card. ☹️

Yep. And I did have a card. It was just nice to buy books which had been previously loved.

a number of former library books, including my collection of Jack London stories.

Arbieroo: 👍

also some physics/maths texts.

Wow

e.g. my copy of this delightful tome I read on the train to a conference in Nottingham:

Robert's review of The Dripping Faucet As A Model Ch...

weird how pertainant it is to problems in satellite navigation, radio communications and global time standards, among other things.

Oh yeah, no doubt. Just heavy reading!

for sure, if you don't have the appropriate educational background, but regarding this book specifically, remarkably accessible if you happen to be a trained physicist/mathematician/engineer.

Maybe you should write articles/books translating for laymen.

thought about it many times - nearest I've come is plurking about some scientific topics.

Arbieroo: Go for it

looking for self-employment options for next calander year. Not sure what the quickest/least hassle/lowest external interference way to turn potential popular science writing into income might be. It occurs to me that actually, a fair number of my Goodreads reviews are a former of attempted popular science education.