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An Old-School Book Scout (New Yorker)

Few days pass during which Wayne Pernu does not buy a book, or several
hundred. During the summer, he hits as many as a hundred book sales per day in
and around Portland, Oregon, cramming volumes into every inch of his car,
stacking them on his lap if he runs out of space. For the last twelve years,
he's made a comfortable living reselling titles he's purchased for quarters at
thrift stores and at yard, estate, and library sales. As a book scout who
listens to his instincts rather than to technology, Pernu is one of the last
of his kind--an old-school purist in a digital world.

We're at a hole-in-the-wall Internet cafe on a drizzly Saturday morning
checking the weekend's sale listings online. "You can tell if it's going to be
a good sale by how people phrase their ad," Pernu says, peering over his
thick-framed glasses at the computer screen. At fifty-one, he has dark,
slightly receding hair and a taste for vintage clothing, like the snap-up
Western shirt and neon-orange Converse sneakers he's wearing today. "If it
says something like 'Treasures' you know it's going to be a lot of junk," ...

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