Domingo Flores 🏳️‍🌈Jun 14, 2023

The second hand book sellers in downtown San Salvador are getting kicked out of their sales spots.

These street vendors were the only real way a poor, working class family like mine could afford to dip into culture.

A lot of them also either are or have loved ones that are incarcerated in Bukele's martial law and mega prisons.

In El Salvador, regimes don't literally burn the books, they metaphorically burn the book sellers. The librarians, were burned a long time ago.

https://www.elsalvador.com/fotogalerias/noticias-fotogalerias/venta-libros-segunda-mano-desalojados-centro-historico/1067174/2023/

"Muchas gracias a todos mis clientes": La venta de libros de segunda mano se despide

Las ventas de libros de segunda mano de la avenida España deberán desalojar el espacio que ocupan desde hace más de una década debido al re ordenamiento del centro histórico de San Salvador.

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Show threadDomingo Flores 🏳️‍🌈
Look at the hidden treasures the street booksellers have. Such as this book from 1569.
Jun 14, 2023 at 11:44pmWeb
Show threadDomingo Flores 🏳️‍🌈Jun 14, 2023
Or this 8 tome version of Don Quixote printed in 1923.
Show threadhal8999Jun 15, 2023
@domingo I think you're being scammed there. Casiodoro compiled and translated to Spanish and published La Biblia del Oso) in 1569. That book is a modern binding, probably after ~1900, when UBS edited and re-published it.
Show threadDomingo Flores 🏳️‍🌈Jun 15, 2023
@hal8999 I mean, don't expect that book to have a price tag over $50. Even if the cover was a "scam", I doubt the seller would even know. That's not the point, this isn't an auction house. I'm talking about people's access to affordable books.