The Shining question

Always book stores

For the most part I get my books from family members who pass them around. Also newer books I get them on Amazon. Also once in a while get to a used book store.

Hi - I get my books from Waterstones, Amazon, charity shops and the library - rarely from WH Smiths.

The vast majority of my books come from Half Price Books, a library clearance, or annual book sales. I have thing for used books. The only new ones I purchase are new releases that I absolutely must have or cheapie mass markets.

i love to read, me dad bought me a Kindle that i didn't want but since the moment i got it a year or so back my reading pace has skyrocketted and i buy through amazon. read lots of the free classics (joseph london, dickens, voltaire) that i otherwise may not have gotten around to, and i love the fact that books are not far cheaper and i don't have to rely on second hand stores.

i'm a kindle convert. in australia books are prohibitively expensive. nothing would really lure me back to hardcopy books

Where do I buy books? ANYWHERE I can! Amazon, Goodwill, local used book stores, Powell's Books (which is a locally owned store here!), Ebay, Barnes & Noble. I especially like locally owned used book stores and The Tidal Wave, the book outlet from the local county library. I don't use the county library any more. Instead I prefer to buy my books as cheaply as possible, get rid of the ones I don't think I'll read again and keep the rest. For me, with all the library fines I've stacked up over the years, it is far cheaper to buy my books! I also borrow books from my son. We trade books back & forth. My husband is always bringing home books, also. He goes to the local Goodwill As-Is for his. I definitely need MORE bookshelves at this point.

Charity bookshops pretty much feed my habit. Can get 10 good ones at a time for about £20, sometimes less. Makes me feel warm and fluffy inside.

A lot of the books I read come free from Amazon, the library, and friend. I do once in a while buys books from Amazon, Ebay or Barns and Noble. There are several sites on can get to send them the deals of the day from Amazon. HAPPY reading everyone!!!

I buy a lot of my books from book clubs I belong to (Doubleday, Science Fiction Book Club, QPBC, etc.) or Amazon. I rarely go to our community library as they are behind in getting new books. I've bought older, hard-to-find books from ebay.

I buy a lot of my books from Amazon and Barnes & Noble, though any store that sells books is fair game. I try to buy new if I can, to show author support, have run out of bookshelf space at home, so now take many of my books to work where I started a lending library. When I need to clear out the shelves, the books are donated to the Friends of the Library for their used book store so someone else can enjoy them.

I'm lucky that a nearby town has a wonderful little bookstore called Three Sisters. The sisters -- Carolyn, Mary Kay, and Barbara -- can get me any book I want. Several years ago they took over the diner next door, now called the Bookmark. All charm. How lucky I am to have Three Sisters and the Bookmark in my life. Amazon comes in second for me.

Goodwill

I buy mine at Barnes and Noble, Amazon, The Book Depository and a second hand book store chain called 'Book Off'. I find Barnes and Noble can be so expensive for certain books so I always try Amazon first for new books, particularly if they are hard back.

eBay and half.com Awesome prices!!!

Used on ebay .. =) or I take from the library a fantastic place to go every week =)

Since I went kindle almost exclusively at Amazon, except for poetry and graphic novels. I still prefer poetry in book form over digital, and graphic novels are just fun to read and turn the page. I buy them from a local store called Local Heroes. Greg, the owner, knows what I like and makes sure I know they're in.

I usually buy my books from amazon for the kindle find them cheaper than nook, get sent daily offers from both and Amazon always cheaper. I also borrow from local library.

Kobo, used book stores, walmart, coles/chapters and friends

Amazon. My husband and I live in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. There is one bookstore here, but they have very few books. We both download ebooks.

I get most of my books from www.abebooks.com

Since I have a Kindle I get most of my books through Amazon. If I buy the actual book it's either the grocery store or book store.

We try and support bookstores wherever possible, but mostly we buy from the Book Depository.

I get my books from the public library. FREE!!!!

If I really love a book, I look for it online. I use bookstores when I get a gift certificate.

Even though I quickly became spoiled with how fast is was to find and buy a book from Barnes & Noble.com with my Nook, I still love to visit my local B&N store for coffee and cheese cake while I browse the old fashioned way. The store is also a great place for my local writer's meetups. Yea, I'm one of those wanta be writers.

Borders use to be my second home. Unfortunately, my support didn't keep them alive. So, after they closed, I got a Kindle and now buy most books online.

I like to buy my books at the half price book store.

Amazon, Audible.com, the local Comic Book Shop and sometimes the library.

I LOVE THE LIBRARY, SO I OFTEN GET MY BOOKS FROM THERE. I GO TO THE LIBRARY AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK. I ALSO BUY BOOKS AT THE LIBRARY USED BOOK SALES, BECAUSE I HAVE ALWAYS WANTED A LIBRARY OF MY OWN AT HOME. I HAVE STARTED A VERY NICE COLLECTION. I OWN A KINDLE SO MANY BOOKS COME FROM AMAZON PLUS YOU CAN GET BOOKS FOR THE KINDLE FROM THE LIBRARY. FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE KINDLE YOU HAVE 14 DAYS TO READ THE BOOK AND YOU CAN NOT RENEW THEM. I HAVE ALSO GOTTEN BOOKS FROM BARNES AND NOBLE AND OTHER BOOK STORES. THERE ARE ALSO FREE SITES ON THE INTERNET FOR EBOOKS THAT I GO TO. SO MANY BOOKS AND NOT ENOUGH TIME TO READ THEM :)

If you like the classics, try www.gutenberg.org. Also, bookbub online has great offers. Dad just told me about bookfanatic, but I haven't checked it out yet.

Amazon (both for print and Kindle), eBay, and the library. Everyonce in a blue moon, Alibris or Half.com.

I use bookfinder.com to find the best deal on a book if I want to own it. For fiction, I generally will only buy it if I can't get it at the library, unless it's very good and I end up wanting to own it--then I'll buy it after I read it and add it to my collection.

http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/

Great prices, free shipping. Got everything in my library there.

I buy my books from amazon.ca, I also get links sent to me for free books, http://ca.ereaderiq.com/, you can link to the US site also, its pretty good.

I buy a lot of books at library sales. After that, Amazon and ABE.

Barnes and Noble along with Ebay. My mother works at the library so any extra copies of anything usually wind up in my hands. I prefer owning it is cheaper to just go to the library but I hate having to rush through a 600 page book especially if its a popular one everyone's reserved.

The Thrift Store is an great place to find books, as is 2nd and Charles (a high end used book store). The local library is the best way to read the classic (and some contemporary) novels. Barnes and Noble is my favorite place to buy new books.

I would agree with Sandyboy's post above. I find I read significantly more since owning my Kindle and do most of my purchasing from Amazon. I love books and always have, but after donating tons to local shops I figure ebooks are the way to go for me.

I'll buy books from any place that sells them - Barnes and Noble, Half Price Books, Dollar Tree,the grocery store, garage sales, flea markets

Books from the library! Some I check out, some I buy from there used. Real books don't need batteries!

I buy exclusively from Amazon. Since buying my Kindle several years ago, I haven't picked up a printed book except to see if it's something I'd be interested in reading as an ebook. If it isn't available for Kindle, I won't buy it.

I buy my new books from...
1. Amazon
2. Books a million

I buy my used books from...
1. Goodwill
2. Second and Charles
3. Library (usually has a book shelf for sale books)
4. Paperback swap.com
5. eBay

I get my free books from
1. Librarything
2. Goodreads giveaways

I get my free ebooks from...
1. Librarything
2. Netgalley.com
3. Bookhub.com
4. Amazon.com
5. iBooks.com
I get so many now for free that I barely go out and buy anymore.

amazon.com for my ebooks

I'm living in Mexico so I find myself buying most of my books on Amazon. I love bookstores but its a matter of geography for me.

I have a Nook, so a lot of my books are downloaded from Barnes and Noble. I still love the beauty of real books & to feel the pages between my fingers as I turn them , though. There's something magical about the real thing. A lot of times I will purchase books online if there is a sale going on. I just purchased a stack of hardcover books from B&N that were on clearance. I like to collect the good ones. Sometimes I purchase non-electronic books from Amazon, too. I also like to support mom & pop shops as much as I can...that goes for any kind of mom & pop, non-franchised, local shops. It's important to support your community and small businesses so that places like Wal(mart)don't end up taking over the world & leaving us little people in the dirt (went off on a tangent there). I can spend hours browsing through a bookstore. They are one of my favorite places to go.

1. Used book Megastore (McKay's). 2. BN.com and their used marketplace. 3. Thrift stores

I also go to the library a lot, especially for older books that are still in print format. I don't like audio books and don't have an e-reader, and most of the newer stuff in our libraries are audio.

I like to go downtown to the used book store. I can trade books there as well.

scrAmazon is pretty much The Deal for *new* books that you can't *get* used anywhere.

Otherwise... it's the book sales. This site usually lists enough to wreck your budget:

http://www.booksalefinder.com

And I keep up with "benefit" book sales that the inevitable local "Friends Of The Library" organization has one or two times a year, and the YMCA, and the inHumane Society, and etc. - there are tons of organizations that have them.

One of the best ones used to be put on by the AAUW...
www.aauw.org
rooms and rooms and rooms full of books, sold by the pound, but I haven't seen one in a few years (YMMV though).

And then there's garage sales...

AND - oh yeah - Books are in almost as much trouble as newspapers nowadays; what with e-media and rampant illiteracy and video games there are used book stores going out of business all the time, upon which I can pounce like a contemptible vulture from the Nether Regions, to pick the bones of a once proud

oh, never mind I better quit here

I have a Kindle, but usually use it to download samples of books, then off I go to the

1.Library
2.Charity shops and Car Boot sales (Yard sales)
3.Ebay
4.Amazon
5.Netgalley
6.Used book sales
7.Friends and family

Not necessarily in that order.

I'm an amateur book reviewer so get a lot of freebies.

I've moved house quite a lot in the last few years, and THE most important consideration of a new place is whether it has a library. I love 'em. I don't know how many people on this thread are from the UK but with the local government cuts we've lost quite a few libraries, which is a disgrace. In some places enterprising villagers have converted old red phone boxes into little book swaps - brilliant idea!

I buy most books from BN.com... since most of the time they don't carry the books I'm looking for in the store. I also occasionally order books from Amazon, but in both cases I order physical copies of the books not e-books. I do, however, have a Nook color... and I will occasionally buy and read books on that... but I really do prefer having a physical book in my hand... much better then an electronic device that always has the potential to malefaction and constantly needs to be charged... plus I just like the feel of an actual physical book. I will also occasionally buy books at used book stores or the smaller "mom and pop" bookstores on the occasion that I find something in those places that I have interest in.

That is my bad habit of reading books. I HAVE to buy at least a few books! I do though read most of my books from the public library! They are free as long as you get a library card! If that certain library does not have the book you want, you can order from another branch. If none of them have what you need, yes, you might have to wait until it comes to the library. The books I do buy and have read, I do donate to the local library!