#sorry but in a country where the minimum wage is 700€ and a single regular book costs 20€... | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

partangel · 2 years

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buying books for 2-7€ is the high i cannot stop chasing. its true sorry but its true! i just bought poes completed works for 5€ (originally 18€) and jane eyre for 3,5€ in THE penguin modern classics edition which is so beautiful and so sold out. on another stance, i find it so ridiculous how expensive books are in my country, i dont know how it is in other places but here they often go from 15-25€ and its highly unusual to get anything cheaper than that. also second hand bookstores are a dying breed and mainly sell antique historical books that are very expensive too. the joy of actually going to a book fair and finding books for 2-7€ that are actually interesting is something i have felt rarely... to actually have money to read what you want is a pleasure few get to feel

#idk why i feel like in the uk for example books are so cheap and so easy to find???#i remember buying a book from a portuguese seller for 4€ and then when it arrived it had an english sticker saying 2€...#like... pain #ALSO its very very funny because it also plays out with our economy and culture in major ways #like people who read on portugal are very very few. books are not popular at all and somehow its passed on as something thats the #individuals fault and its like.#sorry but in a country where the minimum wage is 700€ and a single regular book costs 20€...#thats a lot! a fucking lot! people have to work for nearly 5 hours for one (1) book #compare it to the uk where the minimum wage is like 1k or more and you buy a book for 4€.... i mean really #would love to know how is this in the rest of the world!! chatter with me

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