Joseph ’s Comments (group member since Jul 28, 2009)

Joseph ’s comments from the Book Buying Addicts Anonymous group.

N.L., nice haul with those coupons. Borders does pretty good in that regard.

Michelle wrote: "I think I should block myself from going on ebay. I've gone on there within the past 2 weeks and bought book lots consisiting of 4,5,7,10, 26, and 30 books. I am beyond done buying books for the ..."

Yeah, Michelle, I learned long ago that auctions are a dangerous place for me to go to buy anything. I have a real hard time stopping bidding. That's one place I do not go to buy my books. :-)

I let Borders suck me in again with their coupons! I used a 50% off coupon plus an extra 10% off for being a Borders Rewards member to get for more than half off.

Annika wrote: "I ordered these yesterday:
[bookcover:My Soul to Take|63..."

Some good titles there, I really liked "Speak" and "North of Beautiful."

Shannon wrote: "I just got home with and I see it is a trilogy, guess I will have to go buy the other two right?"

Well of course, a true collector never settles for only having parts of a series or set, right? :-)

For example, I found one book of Madelyn Alt's Bewitched Mystery series at Half Price and just had to get the rest of them. I've completed that with The Trouble with Magic that arrived from Thriftbooks yesterday.

I have to say I really like how I started this month. I decided to pay the $20 to get the Gold membership at Borders, so with that extra 10% off plus a 33% off coupon I had PLUS $5 worth of Borders Bucks, I was able to buy $7.99 for 33 cents. :-)

Last month of the year, how will you end it? :-)

You ask why? Because with your purchase this Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 4 and 5 at Borders, you'll receive a $15 gift card to make a donation on DonorsChoose.org. DonorsChoose.org is an online charity that makes it easy to help students in need through school donations.
You're going to buy books anyway, right? Why not do it and be able to make a donation to a worthy cause too? :-)

Over the weekend I picked up from Borders: and at the public library I found an old childhood favorite on the used book shelf. I still have my original copy, but it is in terrible condition, so find this one was great: ""Big Bird's Busy Book"

I read and reread in phases too. Sometimes I'm in the mood for urban fantasy and I'll read a couple of that genre, after a while I'll switch to a some mysteries, then maybe some historical fiction, and so on. My shopping doesn't really follow this pattern, though, but that's because I know what I do like to read and sooner or later I know I will be in the mood for certain books so when they come out I buy them whether I am in the mood at the time to read them.

I did something I will never do again. I went to a store on Black Friday. Oh brother, I could not believe how crowded the place was! I got to Half Price fifteen minutes after they opened and there were wall to wall people. I did find a couple of nice items, but it was not worth the rush or the crowd. I added to my collection:

Normally I don't like to shop on this day because the stores can be so crazy, but Half Price Books has me tempted with their 7-10 AM 20% off sale planned for tomorrow. I'm an early bird anyway, so I might just head out for that, but nothing else. How about you?

This turned out to be a nice weekend. I got my Thriftsbook delivery and I used $10 worth of Borders bucks to get two books FREE: Encyclopedia Brown Cracks the Case and Encyclopedia Brown, Super Sleuth

❥☪LIZZ☪❥ wrote: "Ohhh Duh lol"

Lizz, don't feel bad, it took way too long before it clicked for me too. :-) lol

In the past I very rarely if ever gave up on a book, but in the last year or so my TBR list has grown so much that if I find I just cannot seem to be getting in to a book after an hour or so of reading I have no problem dropping it to pick up another. I'm a quick read, so if I find I haven't gotten through the first hundred or so pages after an hour, I'll usually drop it, but if I find I've read more than half the book, I'll keep going.

I went on a real nice book buying binge today, and I didn't pay full price for anything, I had coupons everywhere! :-)

At Half Price Books I picked up with a $10 gift card and for 40% off the lowest price and 10% off everything else:

At Borders for 33% off I got

And I ordered from Thriftbooks.com for 15% off:

I actually walked into Borders with a coupon and walked out empty handed. I actually stuck to my shopping list. My goal was to get Prince Charming Doesn't Live Here by Christine Warren which was supposed to come out Nov. 2, but neither of the Borders in my area has it yet. That is REALLY annoying, lately they have not had a book I am looking for when it is supposed to be out. Has that happened to you much or is just my area?

Ashley wrote: "Thriftbooks.com purchase, $9. If you haven't visited this site, you're missing out... almost everything is $4-10, with free shipping! It's a wonder I'm not broke yet.
[bookcover:Sports Illustrated:..."

Thriftbooks is an old favorite of mine, another true enabler. In fact, I plan to visit soon to make use of the 15% off coupon I got for there for my birthday.

Here we are at November. So what purchases are you going to be giving thanks for getting this month?

I just picked up from Borders with a 40% off coupon.