well here's something you don't see anymore

I buy a lot of used books.

Really.

Actually, most of the books I buy nowadays are used books. The biggest reason for it is mostly because the books are cheaper used. Depending on where I buy it I can get a normally 20+$ book for about 5$. No complaints about that. Another reason to get used books is so I can get books that are out of print or otherwise hard to find.

Most of my used books come from consignment shops and stores like Value Village, but lately I've been getting most of my books from betterworldbooks.com, which has an enormous variety of books to choose from at awesome prices and a lot of sales.

One of the books I bought recently is Lois Duncan's The Twisted Window, which apparently came from a library because this is what I found in the back:



I haven't used one of these in a long time (years, really), not since the libraries in my area started using bar codes to keep track of their books.

It's both nostalgic and amusing because I can remember having to deal with these cards when I borrowed library books as a child, good times those.

I come across books sometimes that either have the pocket or scraps of paper from where the pocket's been ripped out, but I rarely find books that still have actual cards still in the pockets.

Quite amusing, that.