Bookbuying in Sandy Beds

I admire the man who said 'Whenever I hear about a good new book, I rush out and buy an old one.'
Here's my own local bookstore - the local branch of the Sue Ryder charity shop. I used to borrow shopping carts to take my old books to Oxfam. Now I'm collecting again. I find I need them for teaching, so some of the old favourites return when I find them. And it's grand to have a selection of unread books on the shelves.
Yesterday saw a first edition of Paul Theroux's 'the Family Arsenal' come back with me, and my John Wyndham colection (a teenage favourite) had 'The Midwich Cuckoos' added to it. Books by Wodehouse. Elizabeth Bowen, Mary Renault, Peter Ackroyd, field guides to Europe's mountain flowers and the birds of East Africa. I do better for less than any bookstore - paperbacks 80p, hardbacks £1.30.
It means building up a notional community too, like with the library - someone near me has also owned and read these books. I suspect someone who works at the local RSPB national headquarters.