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Where do you get your books?
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Sashana
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Jul 14, 2010 04:59PM
I get my Ebooks online for free also (ehem!). Currently I owe $100 on my libarary card in late fees so I can't use my card :( until I pay it off. I do buy my books when I have the money though.
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I use to go to a wonderful independant bookstore but they went out of business so I go to Borders cause they have a free book card or Amazon.
I generally get mine from The Book Depository which ships all over the world free of charge.
Carol, do they have all the books in stock and are they the same price?
All my books are ebooks. I get them online.
@ Rachel,Seriously u need to hook me up with that online link to free books. I get my stash from borders mostly, but I'm figuring out my area so pretty soon the library will be a huge source for me...(unless a really pretty girl helps me out with that link online) ;D
Heather wrote: "Carol, do they have all the books in stock and are they the same price?"Heather - they stock most books and, if there are any out of print books that they do not stock, they refer you to another company who specialise in this type of book. The cost of the book is the same wherever you live in the world.
I get my books at various places: Barnes and Noble online, Borders, grocery store or used bookstore.
Yea Rachel it did work, i'm pretty booked for the weekend now thanks to u hehehe. the specific link u sent though translated to spanish though so i searched for an english version.
I've had slight caution for pre-orders from the Book Depository. If you're in the US and ordering from them expect at least a week (it's coming from Europe after all) for the book to be delivered. If it's a pre-order it could take longer because they need to package it as well. I did some pre-orders last year and ended up breaking down and buying an extra copy from a store before I received my copy from BD. If you don't mind the wait, however, it's usually an awesome deal and better than Amazon.
I get all my books from the library (I do a lot of donating there also) if my surrounding libraries don't have a book I'm really looking for, for example I'm a little sad right now that I have started reading Patricia Briggs and none of my libraries have Blood Bound. So I will probably try my local bookstore (gotta keep the locales in business!) and if it's not there I'll just hop over to the Borders and pick it up. After I read it I will donate the book to my library so they have a copy available.(I do this with all my son's books that he is not into anymore also, along with movies and CD's) I have tried to get into the hype of the ebooks, but there is just something about holding the book in your hand and the smell of the pages! Plus the library is a bit of a sanctuary for my son and myself, especially during the winter months!
I get my books from Borders, Barns & Noble, Books-a-million, Used book stores, Flea markets, Online, yard sales. Where ever I can find books I want to read. I buy them.
Book store tip: A friend of mine worked at a bookstore and she told be that sometimes books are marketed in both the adult and YA (Young Adult) sections of a store. When that happens the YA books are significantly cheaper. Who would have thought?
local book store, thrift stores, FOL sale shelf, booksfree, paperbackswap and bookmooch. I usualy make an Amazon order for my bday, Mother's Day and Christmas.
I like to buy my books from barns and noble, I also borrow them from friends.
I don't know if it is like this everywhere, but my Super Wal-Mart seems to really be keeping a good stock of books on their shelves. I found this very surprising. If they don't have a new release, (they carry both hardbacks and paperbacks) I can ask the person in charge of books and they'll go in the back and find it for me. Their paperbacks are usually less expensive than the book stores by 2 dollars. In the last month I've seen Jessica Bird's (aka JR Ward) Unforgettable Lady, Kelley Armstrong's Men of the Otherworld, Gena Showalter's The Pleasure Slave, plus, all the new releases by popular authors. They have Janet Evanovich's Trouble Maker (a hardback) and I found out it's a graphic novel. I have to admit that the stock seems to turn over pretty quick. I talked with the lady who was stocking the shelves and she told me they regularly pull books from the shelves and put different ones out. So if you see a book when you're there one time you may not see it the next time. This happened to me with several books and it was a bit upsetting. The last time I was in Target their paperbacks were also marked at a lower than cover price and definitely rivaled the Wal-Mart price. I need to go back and check them out again.
I borrow books from Booksfree and 2 county libraries (we live on the border of 2 counties). Sometimes, if I'm desperate, my mom will get a book from her library in Ohio (her county connects to the Cleveland system) and send it to me then I'll send it back when I'm done. Usually, those are audiobooks.I buy books from BAM, B&N, Walmart, Target, Goodwill, FOL sales, a local used bookstore, garage sales, eBay, Amazon (new or used) and Half.com.
I borrow books from the local city library and the county library system. I buy books from Amazon & Borders but also find great deals at The Friends of the Whittier Libraries used book store (most books are under $3)
I get my books from 3 sources: online from Amazon (mostly the secondhand books sold by marketplace sellers), here in Belgium from the annual book fair in Ghent, or from Waterstones when I am visiting the UK.
I get most of my books from the library. I'm cheap I don't re-read most books, so what's the point in owning them? I spend most of my book budget on kid's books because they do re-read things, but I buy them used. I get a lot of my used books from betterworldbooks.com because they ship free in the US with no minimum purchase and the profits go to charity. A note of caution on their books, though: they get some of their books from libraries. They disclose what's a library copy, though. Keep in mind that a good library used copy is not as good as a "regular" good copy. Where I live, there aren't a lot of great used books stores because people don't read much.
I get my books either at chapters indigo or from the book depository.
I buy most of my books from www.bookdepository.com as people have mentioned. I buy mostly there because it's cheaper than buying them in the shops. I just have to wait awhile. I also like to go to the local book exchange or second hand stores once in awhile to see if they have anything interesting.
I get a lot of my books from the library to read. For the books I buy... I get them everywhere although I mostly go through Amazon or Barnes & Noble (I get free shipping from both). My library often has used hardcovers 6 for $2 and I can usually find 6. They have very limited space so they are constantly selling books. They don't take book donations. I also just ordered a bunch of out of print books at Abebooks for great prices! They haven't been delivered yet... probably the first week of December.
me i win them here or on the contest or the thrift store hte ladies now what i like and give them to me
Lisarenee wrote: "Book store tip: A friend of mine worked at a bookstore and she told be that sometimes books are marketed in both the adult and YA (Young Adult) sections of a store. When that happens the YA books a..."This is so true. In my local bookstore - Poison Study YA was $9.99 and the Adult book $16.99
I have 2 used book stores that I frequent. I've tried the church sales but they usually have Stephen King, Danielle Steele, and Nora Roberts by the truckload and rarely anything else. My used book store offers 4 books for the price of 3 and buys back their books when I'm done for 20% the cover price. I've used book depository and they were $3.50 cheaper than Amazon and they shipped to Canada in 5 days. That, to me, was awesome. I'll be using them again.
I go to Half Price Books, Barnes and Noble, Borders, Amazon, and Bookcloseouts.com.
Lisarenee wrote: "Book store tip: A friend of mine worked at a bookstore and she told be that sometimes books are marketed in both the adult and YA (Young Adult) sections of a store. When that happens the YA books a..."Well I guess they think Adult have more money to spend on a book than a Teenager.
B&N...Amazon...my friend gets them from the library and lends them to me :}
Because i don't have a lot of money, but is a bookworm none-the-less, i borrow books from the library as much as i can. I buy books when i deem it something i would itch to re-read or when the library doesn't have it and i am DESPERATE to get it. I get my books at the following places in the order of Most Likely:Kinokuniya
Basement Books
thebookdepository.com <- free shipping!
Big W
Borders
Angus and Robertson
Dymocks
@AH: YA FTW. XD <- perfect example of YA talk is it not?
I'm going to the Miami International Book Fair Tomorrow! It's really cool because they have a lot of used books for dirt cheap. It's going to be like book heaven.
I get my books from the local public library (I LOVE my library!) or online from Book Depositry (recently discovered) which has them at about half the price of the Australian bookstore and ships FREE!!.
I forgot to say that I also get books from my lovely friends and family (borrowed of course). Which is nice because I can keep them as long as I like without having to worry about deadlines or overdue fees.
I get mine from a variety of places. Borders because the membership is free and they have good coupons, Amazon.com because of the variety, my local library (especially if I don't want to buy the books), and a great independent book store and used book store in DuPont in Washington DC.
I get mine from Barnes and Noble
Amazon
Target
Barnes and NoblesBorders
Sams Club and Walmart
Target
Amazon
Scholastic.com
Book fairs
Rarely from the publisher
Friends
I get a lot of ebooks from indie authors (I run a book review blog) and sometimes buy them from indie sites. I second everyone who recommends The Book Depository though -- nearly always it's the same price or cheaper than Amazon, and it does free delivery. They also sometimes send funky bookmarks along with your book, which I love!
Failing that, Amazon of course. Or Play.com is sometimes better-priced than Amazon!
I get most of my books from Amazon UK, but if a book hasn't been released in the UK then I buy from The Book Depository.My mum also gets me books from WHSmiths, but I never go in there.
I haven't been to my local bookstore in years (I know, I'm terrible) but it's just so much hassle going down there, talking to the rude lady behind the counter and asking her to order a book for me from Amazon, just for me to pay full price when I could get two books for the price of that one.
I have gotten an e-book for free online once or twice, but I don't read many e-books anyway so I haven't done that in a while.
Amazon is normally my first choice, it's cheap and you can noramally get free delivery. However I still can't resist a book store (normally waterstones), wondering round looking for new author and offers.
I've recently started looking at The Book Depository.
Frankie-- is The Book Depository a website or is that a store?
I found this really cool used/exchange bookshop and I definitely plan to go back. They have some new releases for $4! Too bad I din't have my wallet :(
That's awesome Sash! :) I wish I had a shop like that near my house!!Hey do you think that Goodwill would have books?
For sure, Lauren. The Goodwills in my area always have books.
The ones in my area do, too. I even found some erotica at one!! Woot!
IT's so great, i just bought like...10 books from the book depository a week or two ago, as a birthday present to myself. xD I received a good 6 of them today, i'm so giddy right now! *Hurries to go read*
Happy belated birthday, Joyee! Enjoy your books.
Sashana wrote: "For sure, Lauren. The Goodwills in my area always have books."Awesome, I'll check that out :)
