Bernard jou Iwaku

Downtown Used Books

When there's no book I want to read,

I always end up browsing the 100 yen shelf at the used bookstore.

Famous classics, fads, and fads based on the fads...

Seventh Volume: Used Bookstores

The crazy hodgepodge of books here makes me think about the value of books.

100 Yen Corner

Maybe it's not that there are no books I want to read on this shelf,

but that seeing them on this shelf makes me not want to read them?

Flash

It doesn't matter how they're handled!

I'll decide the value of these books myself!

I'll judge them with eyes unclouded and not be deceived by the price!

High-Rise J.G. Ballard

I knew it! It's out of print and selling for 1,000 yen online!

I can't decide the value of books myself before I read them.

So after that, I ended up not buying any.

Oh, you didn't buy any?

I tend to put off 100-yen books until after I've read new titles, anyway.

Oh, I know what you mean!

What, does that happen all the time to readers? Cool!

Don't you have anything like that?

It's not all the time, but I do have a rule for 100 yen books.

Oh? What kind of rule?

Go for the ones in the wagon!

100 Yen Corner

Hmm?

It's this one or this one...

All right! This one!

This one has more pronounced and natural-looking yellowing and stains!

It looks like it's survived life's hardships!

I can even feel its aura!

Iwanami Library of Classics books with no covers do seem more vintage and special!

Iwanami Library of Classics

Iwanami Library of Classics Cover As other publishers began to introduce book covers in the 1960s, Iwanashi Library of Classics was a bit later in marketing books with covers, with the first being released in October 1982.

Don't start talking like some bluejeans maniac.

I get that they have that image, but...

That's right!

So the other day, I looked at the 100 yen wagon and then went in the store...

Philosophy and Ideology

Th-This store doesn't sell novels!

Ethnology

Architecture

Buddhist Sermons

Ethnology

Asian

Folk