{"id":599,"date":"2005-11-22T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-22T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2005\/11\/beatzos-laws-of-second-hand-book-buying\/"},"modified":"2005-11-22T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-22T16:30:00","slug":"beatzos-laws-of-second-hand-book-buying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2005\/11\/beatzos-laws-of-second-hand-book-buying\/","title":{"rendered":"Beatzo&#8217;s Laws of Second-hand Book-Buying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>First Law, or the law of pricing:<\/b> A book will always be priced higher than what one is willing to pay for it.<br \/>\n<i>Corollary I :<\/i> The feeling of euphoria induced on seeing a book is inversely proportional to amount on the price tag.<\/p>\n<p><b>Second Law, or the Scouring Law:<\/b> You always find a book when you least expect it.<br \/>\nOR<br \/>\nThe less the effort you put into finding a book, the greater the chances are that you will find it.<br \/>\n<i>Corollary to the Second Law:<\/i> If you decide to stop buying books for a limited period of time, the quantity of book sales around you will increase dramatically.<\/p>\n<p><b>Third Law, or the Law of Boundless Optimism:<\/b> A book will always be available at a cheaper price at some other place some other time.<br \/>\n<i>Corollary to the Third Law:<\/i> You will always meet a guy who has bought a book at a rate cheaper than what you paid for it.<\/p>\n<p><b>Fourth Law, or the Serious Law<\/b>: If you wait to buy a book you think is slightly overpriced, you will always find it on the shelf, but not on the day you give up and go to buy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Law, or the law of pricing: A book will always be priced higher than what one is willing to pay for it. Corollary I : The feeling of euphoria induced on seeing a book is inversely proportional to amount on the price tag. Second Law, or the Scouring Law: You always find a book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[94,84,76,105,82],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-acquisiting","tag-acquisitions","tag-books-2","tag-faxoflife","tag-muhuhaha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}