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[–] j4k3@piefed.world 6 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Was that a US thing or more broad?

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 hours ago

Still is a thing. At least twice a year around here.

[–] Rothe@piefed.social 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

North American it seems. I'm not entirely sure what it was about.

[–] j4k3@piefed.world 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

There used to be these traveling bookstores that came around to schools, set up shop, and we got out of class to go look at their wares. Typical capitalism thing.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Books are nice to have though, for sure. I still have some of the Horrible Histories books that I bought through them that I probably wouldn't be able to get elsewhere (since they were imported from the UK) at the time.

Edit: just remembered I'm a 2000's kid so this meme doesn't really apply to my situation

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 5 points 16 hours ago

We had them in Canada too