Wishing for Cheap and Shitty-Looking Books

I don’t care if the book is tattered. I don’t care if the pages have sprung from its spine. All I care about is it’s a book and I can read it.

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Wishing for an Online Second-Hand Bookstore: The REaD Hunter

“Get him!” Little Ja said to her cousins, and there was a mad dash toward the poor young man who said he’d buy carrot juice the next time he’d pass by, but he didn’t.

This was just one of the crazy things I did when I was a kid. My cousins and I sold carrot juice right outside our house, and we were all bent to earn not just a little, but a lot.

My mother always dreamed that I’d become a businesswoman, so early in life she encouraged me to sell stuff. If you’ve read Ja’s Childhood Businesses, you’d know that I had tons of businesses when I was just a kid. I would often sell something depending on what was trendy. When that trend ended, I’d abandon selling that and start selling the new trendy thing. Eventually I stopped because, even if I was earning, it was hard to run a business while I was studying.

Now I wish I had a book-selling business. It will be an online second hand bookstore called The REaD Hunter, and it will sell the most awesome books on the planet.

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What do you love about second-hand books?

Second-hand books are way cheaper, so why do you need to buy a new copy of the book? Both will have the same contents anyway, so unless you are looking for something that has been recently published, it seems reasonable to prefer a second-hand book.

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