Since I saw the posts about Marcel Proust on the new Days Of Reading blog, I found a cheap copy via one of the second-hand sellers on Amazon, and then their heinous, manipulative, capitalist algorithms recommended a book from Penguin’s same series of ‘Great Ideas’, Walter Benjamin’s The Work Of Art In The Age Of Mechanical Reproduction. Check out the front cover in my hastily-taken picture. Marcel Proust - Days Of Reading (2008) Walter Benjamin - The Work Of Art In The Age Of Mechanical Reproduction (2008) These were both listed as ‘used’ on Amazon, but they’re in pretty good nick. What possible benefit could there be for listing a new book as second-hand?

Since I saw the posts about Marcel Proust on the new Days Of Reading blog, I found a cheap copy via one of the second-hand sellers on Amazon, and then their heinous, manipulative, capitalist algorithms recommended a book from Penguin’s same series of ‘Great Ideas’, Walter Benjamin’s The Work Of Art In The Age Of Mechanical Reproduction. Check out the front cover in my hastily-taken picture.

Marcel Proust - Days Of Reading (2008)

Walter Benjamin - The Work Of Art In The Age Of Mechanical Reproduction (2008)

These were both listed as ‘used’ on Amazon, but they’re in pretty good nick. What possible benefit could there be for listing a new book as second-hand?