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   THE GERMAN-JEWISH EPOCH 1743-1933, and GALACTIC EMPIRES (edited by   
   Neil Clarke).   
      
   It sounds like a lot, but it was only fifteen books total (not   
   counting the Great Courses), and the total cost was under $100.   
   (Three of the books were only a dollar each.) Given what new books   
   cost these days, that is the equivalent of buying three new books.   
   And I only do this a couple of times a year.   
      
   And I achieved the goal of selling more than I bought--in numbers,   
   in volume, and in dollars--so a trifecta for me!   
      
   So those are some of what I may end up commenting on somewhere   
   down the road.   
      
   [I spoke too soon. Less than a week after I got back I went to the   
   library to donate twenty-eight books to the Friends of the Library   
   and ended up buying a $10 bag with seventeen Oxford "Very Short   
   Introduction"s, nine Penguin "Monarchs", six Schocken "Jewish   
   Insights", two Sterling "Brief Insights", one Great Courses course,   
   and a partridge in a pear tree. (Okay, I'm kidding about the   
   partridge.)  All of this fit into a $10 bag (the "Very Short   
   Introduction"s are very short indeed), but I did leave with more   
   books than I came with, though a smaller volume (and obviously less   
   money, but it's in a good cause).]   
      
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                                        Evelyn C. Leeper   
                                        evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com   
      
      
              A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.   
                                              --Adlai Stevenson   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)