I don’t think some North Americans quite realise how many cheap book options they have compared to Intl ppl https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤐" title="„Schweigen ist Gold“-Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: „Schweigen ist Gold“-Gesicht"> and that it can be hard to look at people hauling dozens of books and forget each one didnt cost a couple of hours or even days of pay

For example, a hardback book in Australia minimum cost maybe $35, could easily cost $50. And we have pubs here to make it ~relatively~ cheaper. In Dublin the paperbacks I bought were 30 euro, so 35USD. The hardbacks were like 50 euro

Just don’t think you can have a consumerism on BT / spend what you want convo without acknowledging that it can be VERY alienating to see ppl being able to buy lots of books cheaply

Aight I’m muting this I wasn’t expecting it to get so much engagement. Def listen to the commentators in the replies from non US/UK/Aus countries bc they are really the ones with the greatest accessibility issues & expenses