Seriously? That’s insane. I thought they would be cheaper in the US, but obviously not. I can get a bag of 4 for about $6-$8 CAD, but when I was living in the UK, you could get them for the equivalent of 0.70 USD each.
Here it’s around 2 - 2.5€ each, which for our wages is a lot. They are even grown here but still carry a high cost due to the all the water it takes to grow them.
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As the advertisement goes: Avocados from Mex-i-co! (now with tariffs!)
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Not at all, unless you’re my wife, who thinks 2 is too many.
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TBH I stopped using dead tree copies of books years ago. and there are plenty good e-book stores which also have original language copies.
also a quite underestimated point. many libraries now offer also digital services, so you can get books from there for reading.
So support your local libraries 
Yep, I guess that’s the difference right there. Ours are from Mexico too, but without the liberation tax.
but you’re missing that all important feeling of being liberated or something
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As a friend said: Liberation day - liberated from cheap products and economical growth 
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Ebay and Medimops are my preferred source for used books. Despite living in Germany, most of my reading is in English.
Amazon also has a good selection, especially imports from Amazon UK. But I go to some lengths to avoid Amazon.
And there are great repositories of scanned out-of-print books available as well. I have found more than a few gems that way that were no longer available in print anywhere.
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Anna’s Archive 
For dead or rich authors there isn’t a better place. I also use a portuguese online shop, usually 10€ for paperbacks and twice as much for hardcover. Portuguese books will be 30€ and sometimes we even get the privileged of them being split in two parts for a total of 60€, in a country where the minimum wage isn’t even 1k€.
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There used to be a UK site, closed because of Brexit 
The amusing thing about this, is that the site is flagged by a number of countries for copyright infringement.
So, what about all the LLM vendors and their voracious gobbling up of any content they can find, copyrighted or not?
Online, I use Abe Books, in that they are owned by Amazon (spit), I don’t know whether they will be affected by tariffs.
It’s just a platform so I guess it depends where the book is actually being sold from
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Apple will be very expensive but I bet that won’t matter to those (i***t) apple users, they will still buy the hardware/iphones etc, even if they have to starve.
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I will be very sad if MacBooks become a lot more expensive. I genuinely like their hardware. But at least we updated last year, so the current hardware should last us a while.
We don’t use iPhones, but their users will likely be hard hit. These devices are already outrageously expensive. It will be interesting to see if they remain stable in non-USA.
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I don’t know what that is, so the first thing that came to my mind was that it is somehow linked with @betazoid 
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Oh, I am very sorry, it didn’t cross my mind that there are Apple users here.
I didn’t want to hurt anybody.
Well… I just bought an ipad myself… because it is the only tablet that can show colors outside of srgb correctly, but i must say, everything else about it is just a nightmare.
Edit: But I hope you know what I mean… what kind of Apple/iphone user… I assume you are not one of them.
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The site is in a legal grey area. They don’t provide books themselves and only act as a search engine, which isn’t a crime. Google and all the other search engines also provide links to download copyrighted material.
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The one that thinks you’re poor for owning an Android phone?
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