> but I find "out of date" stuff to be pretty interesting, and I'd honestly prefer to browse a collection of that than stuff that's scrupulously "up to date."

> but I find "out of date" stuff to be pretty interesting, and I'd honestly prefer to browse a collection of that than stuff that's scrupulously "up to date." I'm the same. Before I moved from the city of Brisbane (Aust) I used to often stop at this old book store on my way to uni. This is a book store that would store / sell older books and manuals, and it had a reasonably nice technical section. I like to read older ways of doing things, and thinking back to the difference between what they knew then compared to what we know and have available now. Sometimes I get hopeful that there's some "old method" that could help solve something of today's challenges, which has just been lost in time, but that hasn't happened yet, atleast for my work. :) (Most of the stuff there was for civil engineering, but occasionally had some nice finds. I found a 1960's radio engineering textbook that was stuffed with 1960's money including $1 and $2 bank notes, made of paper!) https://www.archivesfinebooks.com.au/ https://www.archivesfinebooks.com.au/