Being of an age before the internet, we read books and magazines. I read a lot of Tom Swift books as a youth. Had a pretty extensive collection. As it turns out, they got tossed when my folks moved years ago. Anybody still have theirs ? Are they collectible ?
Got a few, mostly I got Hardy Boys books. Got all of those up until I stopped reading them. I was a book nerd who loved cars, hot rods, and ****ed at sports, but read everything I could find, including the cereal boxes at breakfast. Used to check out as many books as I could carry from the public library, up until about age 13 or so.
Yes! I have most of that series, starting with Tom Swift and his Flying Lab. I guess the Hardy Boys weren't geeky enough for me. On a good day, Half Price Books pays about 50 cents per.
My great grandmother had a whole bunch of the originally issued Tom Swift books and I started reading them as soon as I could read.
I went to a parochial grammar school, I think we got a library when I was in third or fourth grade. It was small and all the books were donated from church members ba*****ts and attics. Those old Tom Swift books were first edition, smelled musty and the paper was kind of crumbly but the adventures described were cool as hell.
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