The rise of the trade paperback and the dwindling eyesight of those baby boomers means that the truly pocket-sized paperback is a tough thing to find.

To the spry and keen-eyed city dweller, who needs to schlep whatever they read, this rack of by the front door of Adobe Books on 16th and Valencia, is a gold mine. And a nice mix: you got your Foucault, your grail-related conspiracy theories, your Steinbeck, your Garcia Marquez.

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H.R. Smith has reported on tech and climate change for Grist, studied at MIT as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow, and is exceedingly fond of local politics.

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