@georgetakei
I really don't buy books at the bookstore. I just go on Ebay, especially if there are good used copies available. Best book I recently read was "Preparing for War" by Bradley Onishi. Great book about White Christian Nationalism and how they are perverting politics...
The bargains you can find near the end of a a semester at an old book store...!
"That's the Oxford English Dictionary, complete! And you're selling it with a leather-bound complete works of Shakespeare in middle English for How much...?"