How many lives can a book have? In Celrà, straddling Girona and Empordà, for 16 years a recycled reading project has been beating, giving a new life to more than 300,000 books. It shares space with the town library in the old Pagans Factory, a gem of Catalan industrial modernism converted into a municipal space, where the Town Hall coexists with the municipal swimming pools, the library, the music school, art school, and a civic center with a bar and restaurant, and a free indoor play area for children and babies.

The popular second-hand goods buying and selling platform has closed 2024 reducing losses to 25 million euros, 18% less than the previous year, when they were 30 million, but since its founding in 2013 it has already accumulated more than 120 million euros in losses. However, the company has improved its income, closing the year with a turnover of 101 million euros, 13% more than the 89 million invoiced in 2023. According to the company, Wallapop "has reached the breakeven –break-even point between income and expenses - in its operations in the Spanish market", which, it assures, "is a further step in the consolidation of a consumption model supported by more than 19 million monthly users in southern Europe".

It's not easy to make money in the used car market. In fact, you have to be an expert to choose the right purchase for a specific model, year, and engine that won't cause you any headaches in terms of reliability, and even then, these used vehicles have a high margin of uncertainty and error that we should never underestimate. However, in every car's price lifecycle, there are certain peaks that we could call valleys, which correspond to the lowest point in a model's price, right at the junction between what we consider and what we commonly call old car and what we already consider a classic or historic car that increases its market value.