Wonderful story. And I think I have a speck of dust in my eye.
I think I have the same problem. It's a known interface issue, haven't found a fix for it, but apparently the bug can be implemented as a feature.
What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?
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#22> He looked around at the faces in the crowd and said, “I’m opening the bidding at one dollar.” I about shit myself. I bid the $1 immediately to get things rolling. Well, after I bid, he looked around and said, “Once, twice, sold that man there for $1.” I just laughed… and wondered how the Hell I was going to get this pallet home and what I was going to do with all those books. > When I asked the auctioneer afterward…
The books were worth tens of thousands of dollars (sold individually on the second-hand book market, after being carefully catalogued etc.), but nobody interested in buying books happened to be at the auction and the auctioneer set a $1 minimum bid because he didn’t know anything about books and was more interested in disposing of the books than making money from the sale. The auction house could surely get significa…
> The books were worth tens of thousands of dollars
The article does not say that or anything remotely similar.
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#23The moral of the story is talk to your siblings from time to time!
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#24I wrote about this once before, but I had a very similar situation, except with family photos instead of books. The story was that someone's apartment was cleared out after they were evicted. Well, after a few years of the stuff sitting in storage, I got around to looking through it, and with a bit of sleuthing, I tracked down the person who the family photos belonged to and gave them a call.
The call did not go well. It is certainly possible that I could have approached the phone call better, and maybe I should have tried harder, but they were suspicious, rude, and quite possibly upset. So I never took the family photos to them, and eventually disposed of them.
You really never know how people will respond to having their past thrust at them like this. Or how they'll respond to strange phone calls.
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#25Yesterday heard an NPR story on a similar topic - A librarian collects all the things left in books — from love letters to old photos -- https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1114851706
The WaPo article - Librarian finds love notes, doodles in books and shares them with a grateful public -- https://wapo.st/3SjGKNv
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
The books were worth tens of thousands of dollars (sold individually on the second-hand book market, after being carefully catalogued etc.), but nobody interested in buying books happened to be at the auction and the auctioneer set a $1 minimum bid because he didn’t know anything about books and was more interested in disposing of the books than making money from the sale. The auction house could surely get significa…
> The books were worth tens of thousands of dollars The article does not say that or anything remotely similar.
Quoting:
> ... I looked through some of the books in the top boxes and realized that there were some very old, and often valuable, books in this boxes.
You're right that this isn't saying that the books were definitely worth a lot of money, so it really say something remotely similar.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The books were worth tens of thousands of dollars The article does not say that or anything remotely similar.
Quoting: > ... I looked through some of the books in the top boxes and realized that there were some very old, and often valuable, books in this boxes. You're right that this isn't saying that the books were definitely worth a lot of money, so it really say something remotely similar.
That's a far stretch to "tens of thousands of dollars." A valuable second-hand book can be $50.
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#28Let's have a part 2, his life story! You teased us with that:)
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#29The following story about gunpowder is good too.
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#30What a delightful story.