As a comment, I grew up reading SF from roughly 1970 (aged 6) onwards. Largely from the library until I was old enough to buy second hand paperbacks (say, from 1978). Our library had no separate SF/F section, so it was mainly library editions (from the Hodder content mill) and the SF canon.
Joke's on me: turns out I accidentally marinated in the subject matter of a grad school course in the history of SF/F literature.
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