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kleinbl00 · 3700 days ago · link · · parent · post: Years of visiting Half Price Books every week paid off in record-setting fashion yesterday

I am so psyched to be back in the realm of Half Price Books. There's like two used bookstores in Los Angeles.

Keep your eye out for the massive-volume Study of History by Arnold Toynbee. Not the abridged 2-volume set.

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user-inactivated · 3700 days ago · link ·

Same trip I found a couple of volumes from Will Durant's Story of Civilization. Someday I'll have them all.

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Meriadoc · 3700 days ago · link ·

So, I used to work in a used bookstore when I was 18. Back then, I had never heard of Durant or his work, so it wasn't until a number of years later that I realized how fucking cool it was that we had TWO COMPLETE SETS OF IT.

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kleinbl00 · 3700 days ago · link ·

So the awesome thing is that one has been turned into an audiobook...

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user-inactivated · 3700 days ago · link ·

That's a lot of commutes.

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kleinbl00 · 3700 days ago · link ·

AAARGH Volumes 1-10 are available on Audible. 437 hours.

Volume 11 is not.

Volumes 1-11 are totally available on what.cd.

I want to do the right thing...

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user-inactivated · 3700 days ago · link ·

Isn't it freeleech at the moment? Or will be soon? Sometimes the wrong choice is just - so - easy

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tehstone · 3700 days ago · link ·

I have a good ratio right now. If it comes down to it, let me know

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kleinbl00 · 3700 days ago · link ·

They aren't freeleeching anything that big. Limit is 1GB.

Of course, I could pay Audible for 1-10 and then just grab the last book. Maybe that's the way through. Just gotta bust through Edward Said. Ornamental writer, he...

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kleinbl00 · 3700 days ago · link ·

8.9GB as torrents.