Libraries in my area seemed to purge the classics in the late 90's so I got a ton of books for very low cost or free. I stopped going to libraries and focused on building my own for my homeschooled kids.
Going to library sales, I noticed that brand new books were being sold off. Seemed like a money laundering scam or just plain racket, buy overpriced books under contract from the publisher than sell them off for pennies.
Digitalization of classics has made things easier to get a hold of early works, since they are post-copyright. I can get the entire G.H. Henty historical adventure series in epub in one go vs. trying to find the old copies and store them on book shelves. There's something about having a book in your hand to read, but also something about having an entire series available on a digital reader (I like the Kobe ones vs. kindle). I like both options.
Yes! GA Henty FTW! We went to various old lists of classics and hunted through archive.org, project Gutenberg, and free ebook sites to find what we could. Then we keep an eye out on the used book sites.
Libraries in my area seemed to purge the classics in the late 90's so I got a ton of books for very low cost or free. I stopped going to libraries and focused on building my own for my homeschooled kids.
Going to library sales, I noticed that brand new books were being sold off. Seemed like a money laundering scam or just plain racket, buy overpriced books under contract from the publisher than sell them off for pennies.
Digitalization of classics has made things easier to get a hold of early works, since they are post-copyright. I can get the entire G.H. Henty historical adventure series in epub in one go vs. trying to find the old copies and store them on book shelves. There's something about having a book in your hand to read, but also something about having an entire series available on a digital reader (I like the Kobe ones vs. kindle). I like both options.
Yes! GA Henty FTW! We went to various old lists of classics and hunted through archive.org, project Gutenberg, and free ebook sites to find what we could. Then we keep an eye out on the used book sites.