Leto

Me think you're talking about the same thing but one with an american word and the other one with a british one.

Are the sales you're talking like flea market but without professional seller, just people selling old stuff they had ?

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Princess Ivy

yep, american flea market would be equivalent, these are a mixture of private and professional stalls

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Leto

Ok, so for Alexa, Ivy is talking about "une brocante de rue".

Vary fashionable in Paris as soon May is here, nearly every week-end there's one in the streets nearby. And, on top of that I live with 20 minutes by walk of the main flea market, but hopeflly I would have to cross all Paris to go to the one specialized in books.

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Princess Ivy

i've just had two major clearouts. first for junk, then for my ex. if i re-fill from carboots, i'll be murdered!
(but that second hand fantasy shop is calling to me...)

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Alexa

Looks like more organized selling. A garage sell is when somebody wants to get rid of old stuffs right in front of their house during week-ends. Somethimes neighbourgs decide to make one same day to attract more people. A few years back I could buy a good book for $ 1. Sigh ! Now they ask for at least 5.

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Leto

Here, in the city, it can be one person, but usually it's at least a full condo as it's easier to ask municipality authorization to use part of public pavement. In the country side, pure garage sales are more commons.

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Princess Ivy

at a car boot i can pick up a book from 10p

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Princess Leia: I don't know who you are or where you've come from, but from now on you'll do as I say, okay?

Alexa

Sigh !

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Princess Ivy

also try library discards. cheap and books in good condition. also often hard backs. which are far more tough than paperbacks

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Alexa

I received two free books from my library when I bought Polgara. One of them is Genese French translation for the reality dysfunction, part 1) of Peter F. Hamilton. The other one is the translation of "For the sake of Elena", by Elizabeth George.

Did you read something of Hamilton ?

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