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Rare gems are discovered at the bottom of second-hand book piles..
Authors that bookstores no longer promote: Rahul Bhatnagar, 32, a Noida resident and Associate Fellow (Media) with the Delhi Government, got hooked on to second-hand books after his trips to the Sunday book market in Delhis Daryaganj..
At second-hand stores, Abbas Momin 34, a podcast producer and a podcaster from Mumbai, has found the Led Zeppelin biography, Hammer of the Gods, for 100, and the novelisation and script of the 1977 Star Wars film for 150-200 (bookstores sell it for 9,444)..
I also used to collect Diamond and Raj comics in Hindi: Nagraj, Chacha Chaudhary, Pinki and Billu; in my teens, he says.. If a book has been around for more than a few years or is out of print, chances are that youll find an old copy for cheap somewhere..
Perhaps the greatest collection of second-hand books isnt in a store or a fair, but scattered in the homes of people just like you, waiting for a new reader..
