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😂 thank you John. There’s better things to be spending money on I suppose. Thank you for taking the time to reply to my posts and I’m glad to hear your father played a role in WW2. The B17 crew were fundamental in their role. I myself joined the Royal Marines (would make an awful pilot) and have a particular affinity for veterans of WW2.
Speaking to the main point, I a an inveterate book collector ( many topics but predominantly aviation nonfiction). Although I dearly love going to bookstores and do even in countries where I don’t read the language, I learned early to utilize mail-order resources and then online. Amazon first eliminated its new book sales competition and now has come to dominate used book sales mainly due to the seamless integration of used books and third-party sellers into its platform. Other online used book engines like ABE ( American Book Exchange) have held on and offer a great service but Amazon is hard to beat, especially as their reach is worldwide. It happens that one of my special interests is WW II aviation ( my father was a B17 bomber pilot based in England) and British aviation is an important subset. Amazon sources through Amazon UK perfectly seamlessly.
This is good advice for any field, not just retail. I even find it applies to my field of experimental high-energy particle physics/astrophysics. Indeed it is a good exposition of my personal/research group path.
I greatly enjoy your posts. I would become a paid subscriber but my wife is pathologically opposed to and paid subscription. Even magazines I have to get through my Apple One that I share with my adult son.
😂 thank you John. There’s better things to be spending money on I suppose. Thank you for taking the time to reply to my posts and I’m glad to hear your father played a role in WW2. The B17 crew were fundamental in their role. I myself joined the Royal Marines (would make an awful pilot) and have a particular affinity for veterans of WW2.
Speaking to the main point, I a an inveterate book collector ( many topics but predominantly aviation nonfiction). Although I dearly love going to bookstores and do even in countries where I don’t read the language, I learned early to utilize mail-order resources and then online. Amazon first eliminated its new book sales competition and now has come to dominate used book sales mainly due to the seamless integration of used books and third-party sellers into its platform. Other online used book engines like ABE ( American Book Exchange) have held on and offer a great service but Amazon is hard to beat, especially as their reach is worldwide. It happens that one of my special interests is WW II aviation ( my father was a B17 bomber pilot based in England) and British aviation is an important subset. Amazon sources through Amazon UK perfectly seamlessly.
This is good advice for any field, not just retail. I even find it applies to my field of experimental high-energy particle physics/astrophysics. Indeed it is a good exposition of my personal/research group path.