/tags/bookstore/Recent content in Bookstore on Gromet's Plaza ArchiveHugoen-usTue, 15 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/stories/2022/11/15/the-high-cost-of-used-books/Tue, 15 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/stories/2022/11/15/the-high-cost-of-used-books/<p>The day had not gone according to plan. I was supposed to have gone riding with my friends, but instead had to fill in at our used bookstore. Worse, it was now snowing heavily outside at the rate of two inches an hour, with no letup in sight.</p> <p>My family had owned the used bookstore for years, and it gave my family a pretty good living and had sent me to college. My college education had been paid for by romance novels, comics, science fiction, and porn.</p>