BOOKS

I went to a used bookstore today. America: please use all of Europe as an example and fill your towns with bookstores. I live in a city over four times larger than Heidelberg, and I have to drive 30 minutes to visit a bookstore, which is a major chain. In the Hauptstraße (main street) here, there are bookstores, new and used, independent and large chains, on every block. The used bookstores sell books ranging from 1 euro, to hundreds, and they often sell second-hand DVDs as well.

Here's what I got (the Princess and the Frog DVD was new from another store, but it was ON SALE):



That, TV fans, is a German copy of The X-Files Season 6, Episodes 13 to 16. Everyone knows that Episode 20 of that season, The Unnatural, is the best hour of television ever produced, and will never be rivaled, but they didn't have it. :( And beside it is an animal encyclopedia.