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What’s the most you’ve ever spent on a book?
(thelemmy.club)
Excluding textbooks for classes, I bought this for ~$300 (several several years ago as a special treat)
Most of my collection is thrifted/bought from garage sales (for a quarter to a dollar usually) but I do have a handful of nicer ones.
I just spent $60 on a book that will probably cost me about $150 to get rebound.
Its John Dillon's "The Middle Platonist's" and its been really fascinating to read it as part of my desire to be educated on the history of Platonism and its eventual turn into a religion.
Its inspired me to start now a couple modern Plato clubs and I want to give my personal copy the love it deserves as the reprint is ass lol.
Here's a pic of it
The red copy is the library copy I was working out of when I first started Justin Sledges middle platonism seminar. The blue is The modern reprint and the page usage is atrocious lol. I can't wait to get it rebound and cut down normally
The modern reprint must be the special Fermat edition.