Missed one of the thrift store books

When I got up to the register to pay for my books at the thrift store, apparently there was a special on small paperbacks. If I bought 4 small paperbacks, I would get them for $1.00 a piece instead of $1.49 each. I only had three, so I went and got a fourth book, shown above, that I was on the fence about buying.

I once tried to read Tolstoy's War and Peace, but I couldn't get through it. This book is his earlier work and is much shorter than War and Peace, so maybe I'll be able to get through it.

Thrift store books from Unique Thrift Store

I know that e-books are gaining in popularity. However, I still like reading paper books. One of the best ways that I have found to buy books is to go to thrift stores. Unique Thrift Store, which has a location in Falls Church, Virginia, has a decent supply of books. They have several topical sections such as romance, travel, and health; but the sections that I look under for books are literature, fiction, and non-fiction.

The picture above is of the titles from my last stop at the thrift store:

• Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
• Maggie, A Girl of the Streets and Other New York Writings by Stephen Crane
• The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
• The Great Mysteries of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemingway
• Hard Times by Charles Dickens
• The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
• Fire by Sebastian Junger
• The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) by Andy Warhol
• Everyday Life in Traditional Japan by Charles J. Dunn
• In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World it Made by Norman F. Cantor
  

After I have finished the book, I can keep it without fear of file corruption or obsolescence which has the potential to occur with an e-book. Barring fire or mold, a paper book, if well treated, will outlast me. Also, I can send a paper book to a friend to read which is something that e-books are currently very limited to do in this capacity.

In addition, the books that I bought averaged $1.49 each. As an example, the version of The Snows of Kilimanjaro and other stories by Ernest Hemingway that I bought at the thrift store for $1.49 is available for purchase as a paperback at Amazon.com for $11.20, a hardback at Amazon.com for $16.50 and a Kindle version at Amazon.com for $10.99.