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   From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 02/02/2012 05:27 PM, Kenneth M. Lin wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   > "Bobbie Sellers" wrote in message news:j60j9q$kit$1@dont-email.me...   
   >   
   > On 09/28/2011 06:29 PM, billnes wrote:   
   >>> Hello all,   
   >>>   
   >>> Being that I'm in the NYC-Metro area, having Book Off on W 45th   
   >>> Street in Manhattan, makes buying brand new manga unnecessary. Unless   
   >>> it something really special, almost no books or manga in Book Off have   
   >>> been re-shrinked wraped.   
   >>   
   >> Lucky you. We may have a similar store here in San Francisco   
   >> but not close by. As the Web got stronger most of the used book   
   >> stores closed. But I am talking about the downtown area and there   
   >> might be good used book stores in other parts of town.   
   >   
   > There is no Book Off in Bay Area. There are several in Southern   
   > California and I always load up whenever I visit my mother in Orange   
   > County.   
   >   
   > If you hadn't noticed, Book Off sell used books. Why'd they bother   
   > shrink-wrapping used books?   
      
   	The shrink-wrapped bit was a carryover from topic   
   drift.   I am surprised anyone is looking at such old posts   
   but glad to see another manga fan.  The used book stores that   
   i would expect to find would be out around 9th and Judah or   
   adjacent streets.  Since I hit 73 I don´t get around so much   
   any more.  Used to be stuff out on Clement as well.  Have   
   seen several of the large used book stores in the downtown   
   close.  I have seen as many new book stores close.   
   And that was in concert with increased digitalization and   
   networking.  I miss Borders but I could not spend enough   
   to keep it open in the highest rent retail part of town   
   i.e. Union Square.  I bought my first volumes of Maisson   
   Ikkoku there.   
      
   	bliss   
      
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