How much would you pay for a book?

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Recently, I found a book on Internet which caught immediately my attention. It's an autobiography about a musician called Herbert Thomas Mandl. Maybe, someone asks why it caught my attention. Well, he was born in Bratislava, when Checoslovaquia still was one country instead of separated into two republics as we know it today. His wife, also a pianist, was originary from Prague, as myself too. He grew up in a german jewish surrounding. Pursued by the nazis, he and his father passed a time in an assembly center in Germany. My family, we are not jewish, but we emigrated to Germany, where I grew up. There, his wife, Mrs Mandl, was one of my teachers on the high school. She gave us classes in Music, to me and to my two oldern sisters. I still remember that she told us a little bit about her passed, when she tried to escape and get to the United States. Mr and Mrs Mandl passed away in 2006. They had an activ life full of history and emotions. So I decided that I want to read the book. For me, it has a special value. One of my sisters told me that she would not pay the almost fifty euros the book costs. But, I am a book worm and it contains plenty of historical information of one of the darkest history in Europe. I suppose that I will cry somewhere during the lecture of the book, a real history about almost sixhundred pages. But, I don't mind. Today I received it and I will start to read it tonight. How much would you pay for a book? Do you have a favorite one? Which value has got your favorite book for you?