in a web of glass, pinned to the edges of vision

used books bearing gifts.

colubra

6/20/04 03:23 pm

So a while back I found that I had been paid $293 to take a book out of a bookstore. This was very cool.
Today, I'm reading through an old LeGuin hardcover from '79 that I got used and found a MUNI fast pass in it- probably somebody's bookmark.
from 1980.
Wow, you'd never even believe this thing was a bus pass.

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• paradisacorbasi

  6/20/04 03:32 pm (UTC)

  

  Wow. I always wondered how much it was you'd found in the book. I'm guessing $300 and you paid $7 for the book, now?

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  • colubra

    6/20/04 05:25 pm (UTC)

    

    yup. Gruesome, isn't it.

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• prickvixen

  6/20/04 04:42 pm (UTC)

  

  Why, is it just a one-color print on regular stock that says 'Bus Pass' on it? You should scan it.

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  • colubra

    6/20/04 05:29 pm (UTC)

    

    yeah, though it does have a skinny magnetic strip on it. I intend to scan it, no question.

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• cheshcat

  6/20/04 04:43 pm (UTC)

  

  Wait... you just found $300 cash in a book? What bookstore do you SHOP at???
  
  *grin* It's like the old academic standby: author puts a $50 bill in a copy of his/her dissertation, and leaves it there on the library shelf, hoping someone will actually find it years later...

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  • colubra

    6/20/04 05:19 pm (UTC)

    

    a used bookstore in Phoenix, this was.
    I was very very lucky. ;)

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    • cheshcat

      6/21/04 01:17 am (UTC)

      

      *blink* In Phoenix? Pity, I'd have suggested having coffee with you, if I'd known you were in town. *grin*
      
      Now you have to tell me which bookstore...
      
      And what did you spend your newfound treasure on? (more books?)

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      • colubra

        6/21/04 07:17 am (UTC)

        

        Didn't know that's where you were. ;) Bookman's is the name of it- there's a couple of 'em, apparently; the one that's next door to a comics shop. And I'm taking the money to Vegas to gamble with.

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        • cheshcat

          6/23/04 12:59 am (UTC)

          

          *grin* Well, now you know. Next time you're out here, drop me an email.
          
          I was going to guess either Bookman's or Changing Hands. (Both favorites.) May your lucky streak continue for a long run! :D
          
          Cheers,
          Chesh

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