A rare copy 1733 of Benjamin Franklin’s Poor Richard Almanac has sold for $556,500. It’s the second highest price ever paid for a book printed in America reports AP.

In case, you don’t know this was a yearly book published between 1732 and 1758. It was a pamphlet with prints runs of about 10,000, which was pretty substantial for a colony. They contained weather information, household tips, puzzles, and various other thigngs to pass the time.

In his autobiography, Franklin described his almanac as “a proper vehicle for conveying instruction among the common people, who bought scarcely any other books; I therefore filled all the little spaces that occurr’d between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it being more difficult for a man in want, to act always honestly, as, to use here one of those proverbs, it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.”