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Good point. I mostly buy fiction or self improvement/productivity books. Technology can work if it’s not application specific like a book design patterns for software.

if it’s about how to use MS Word, a google search or youtube video will probably tell me what I need to know.

I still miss the Computer Literacy stores in Silicon Valley but that era is long gone.

Books on the latest office version lose relevancy quickly. However there.are timeless books on things like algorithms as well.

Booksellers rarely understand which those are though.

I’ve considered volunteering my services to small used bookstores to help them decide which computer books to buy. Seems like a win-win: I’d get first shot at anything interesting that arrives, and they’d have a way to separate the wheat from the chaff.