No I'm much older than that. My comment was somewhat sarcastic, rhetorically asking whether amplifying our consumer culture "made the world a better place." I

No I'm much older than that. My comment was somewhat sarcastic, rhetorically asking whether amplifying our consumer culture "made the world a better place." I grant that it made hard-to-find stuff easier to get. But any bookstore I ever dealt with in those days would be happy to special order anything they didn't stock.