According to a survey by giant Alibaba in 2018, the market for the second hand book was booming last year as more Chinese tend to trade or exchange their used books online.

根据巨头阿里巴巴2018年的一项调查，二手书市场在去年蓬勃发展，因为越来越多的中国人倾向于在网上交易或交换他们的二手书。

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The rise of online second hand book platforms and sharing ideas also contributed to the booming book recycling.

网上二手书平台的兴起和想法分享也促进了图书回收的蓬勃发展。

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Sam struck on that anthology in a second hand book store.

萨姆在一家旧书店里偶然发现了那本选集。

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"There was a time when second-hand book sellers in book towns were first of all selling books and secondly selling the experience of browsing, " explained Mr Turpin.

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However, the days when second-hand book shops were the only place to find a book you could not get in a high street store are long gone.

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In 1963, at the age of forty-six, he made up for it by setting up his own informal school in a London railway station, teaching half a dozen teenagers in exchange for a little tobacco or a second-hand art book.

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