“Is there any other industry in which such high-quality goods regularly make their way to consumers via a trash bin?” asks Susan Dominus in The New York Times (1/18/08). Susan is talking about the book industry, and specifically about the Strand, a used bookstore in Manhattan, where scavengers cash in on books other people have thrown in the garbage. Thomas Germain (a.k.a. Tommy Books) and his buddy Brian Martin (a.k.a. Leprechaun) make their living by getting up at three in the morning, rummaging through recycling bin and taking whatever books they find straight to the Strand’s bookseller’s line.
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