July 25, 2021 中古本のありがたみ (Value of Used Books)

In spite of my past strong hesitation to buy used books, I have recently repeated buying used books. For the last few years, I have enthusiastically studied and trained my English skill (mainly grammar and writing). As a result, I need to buy many books essential for improvement of my skills. The best way to obtain the books is to buy new books from regular book stores such as Kinokuniya-Shioten and Maruzen. But I cannot afford to do it due to the costs and have begun to buy used books. Once I bought used books, I didn’t find any major problem in using them. Of course, some used books had a lot of writing in the pages. But, most of the used books I have bought are acceptable to me. In addition, the used book market enables me to buy foreign books at reasonable cost in Japan as well as to buy used foreign books from foreign book stores through Amazon. (to be continued)

　ボクは、ここ数年、頻繁に中古本を買うようになりました。昔は、本に限らず、中古品には抵抗がありました。でも、英語の勉強を重ねる中で、欲しい本が山のように出てきました。欲しい本を全て新品で買うと多額の費用がかかるため、コスト削減策として中古本を買うようになりました。一部の中古本には書き込みされているものもありますが、ほとんどの中古本は何の抵抗もなく使えます。また、中古本市場では、洋書も扱っており、これも魅力に一つです。アマゾンから海外の中古本書店にも発注できます。（後日につづく）