Where do you get your books?

[Sandra]

Apparently there are 2 book depository sites the UK one and a US one. You should check out both for prices as sometimes the same book is cheaper on the other site.
www.bookdepository.co.uk
www.bookdepository.com

[Sarah]

I get my books from Chapters/Indigo, or walmart. I like to get my books new for some reason... Haha

[Dianne]

As a librarian I tend to get my books at the library. Unless they are out of print or not in the system. Then I go through Amazon.

[Lauren]

I keep buying books off of my Nook. I read the summary, and then click! Spending way too much $$! Ahh :-))

[Sashana]

Same problem :(. Must.stop.spending.

[Lauren]

Haha I know :'( It's really very sad...

[A Voracious Reader (a.k.a. Carol)]

Stop spending, hell! Over my cold dead body! lol

[Lauren]

Haha Carol :-D Tell me about it!! Lol :-P

[Sandysconnected]

I have a Kobo so I get my books online at their estore.

[Jex]

I use www.swap.com to trade old books for new ones (well...newly used books). I also do way too much shopping on my kindle and spend way too much time searching for free ebooks.

[Bridgette]

i get my books from secondhand bookstores, charity shops, independant bookstore, Waterstones, WHSmiths, market and occasionally online. depending how desprite for books i am

[Marcia]

Anyone with a sony e reader should look weekly at the Bargain Priced section there are free books to be had. I get four to five books a month there and they are not junk but good reads by top authors:

[Liz]

I download from my public library and Barnes & Noble. I read books on my nook exclusively.

[Marcia]

Liz wrote: "I download from my public library and Barnes & Noble. I read books on my nook exclusively."

i too only read books on my sony reader isnt it amazing i have had one for almost 5 years

[Shay]

Bridgette wrote: "i get my books from secondhand bookstores, charity shops, independant bookstore, Waterstones, WHSmiths, market and occasionally online. depending how desprite for books i am"

If there was a way to sell used ebooks and buy them, I wouldn't buy very many used books. But, if I can get a used book cheaper than an ebook, I'll go with the cheapest way to get a book. Unless it's a chunky- then I'll sometimes splurge on an ebook so my wrists don't hurt.

[Liz]

Marcia wrote: "Liz wrote: "I download from my public library and Barnes & Noble. I read books on my nook exclusively."

i too only read books on my sony reader isnt it amazing i have had one for almost 5 years"

Marcia, my e-reader has been life-changing. Instead of stuffing a half dozen books and paperbacks in my purse, they now all go on my e-reader, which fits perfectly inside my purse. Downloading from my public library has been the icing on the cake!

[Sashana]

Ditto, Liz. I haven't read a paperback or hardcover since I got my Sony. I'm not over them, but I'm still in that phase where I'm completely obsessed with my eReader.

[Marcia]

FYI JUST WENT INTO SONY READER STORE TODAY THERE ARE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY FOUR FREE E BOOKS TO DOWN LOAD. I JUST DOWNLOADED 28 ENJOY EVERYONE

[Book Him Danno]

The library most of the time, and the library sale a few times a year. Amazon if I can't get it at the library. I love our library system, you can request from any library in the SELCO system and they have most things I want. I hardly go to the library anymore, I request on-line and then they call and I go pick them up. I browse on-line now, instead of the shelves.

[Melissa]

I get my books from Walmart only because I work at a business inside of Walmart.

[Jennifer]

Where I live, we have the largest FOL booksale in the southeastern US twice a year. It lasts 5 days each sale, they usually have about a quarter of a million books per sale, and because the 2nd to last day is half-price day and the last day is 10-cent day, they virtually sell out every sale so the selection is new at each sale. The average book price used to be about a quarter: now it's more like a dollar. Still-- they had their second sale for this year in October and I spent 18 bucks on about 50 books. I've literally bought 300 books over the course of one sale before and spent around 100 bucks or less.

Now, of course, I also load up my kindle.

[Sashana]

Jennifer wrote: "Where I live, we have the largest FOL booksale in the southeastern US twice a year. It lasts 5 days each sale, they usually have about a quarter of a million books per sale, and because the 2nd to ..."

Jennifer...wow. What I wouldn't give to be at a book sale like that. I'd be so happy I wouldn't know what to do with myself. And it happens twice a year?! Can someone die from too much happiness? And if so, why aren't you dead?

What does FOL mean?

[Jennifer]

Friends of the Library. All the proceeds go to buy books for the library. Plus I spend all year donating books I've read to the sale, so I get cheap, sometimes pretty hard to find, reads AND support the library in multiple ways AND have an automatic home for my "done-with" books. So yes, sweetness abounds!

[Jennifer]

And feel free to bop on down and I'll give you a guided tour of the sale. they happen in April and October. :-)

[Shay]

Jennifer wrote: "Friends of the Library. All the proceeds go to buy books for the library. Plus I spend all year donating books I've read to the sale, so I get cheap, sometimes pretty hard to find, reads AND suppor..."

I love these things. You get to buy books and feel super virtuous. Perfect.

[Sandysconnected]

My ebooks can be found online, at any free site, and at the library. I have the Kobo and that's what I like about it.

[Lindsey]

I get them at the library, Booksamillion when they have their buy 2 get 1 or buy 2 get 2 free sale, and at the book exchange in town.

[Jessica-Robyn]

Library online catalogs are amazing things! I'm incredibly lucky to live in walking distance of two libraries from different systems, meaning I have two separate catalogs that I can go through, yay! Because of this finding the material I want is never an issue however this being said, one of said libraries is completely down hill from where I live and this hill is deceivingly easier to walk down then it is to walk back up so I only get to go to that location once every month or so when I know I can survive the trek.

[Kristina]

I get them on Amazon, at used bookstores or at Barnes and Noble. It depends on what I'm looking for really. If it's a book I can't wait for I will buy it at the store but if it's something I'm iffy about I'll get it on Amazon where I can use the free shipping. And if I'm just searching for whatever, or trying to complete a series, I'll look through used bookstores. Also love the library!

[whimsicalmeerkat]

Amazon, Project Gutenberg, occasionally Barnes & Noble and various...free...sites around the the net.

[Shadow Jubilee]

Since I posted last November:

Primary method of getting books is the public library.

Then:
- free e-books online e.g. Smashwords
- digital library (no more late fees!)
- Paperbackswap.com (currently accumulating credits until I finish reading the books I've previously requested)
- Amazon.com (occasionally)

[Theadora]

I get my books everywhere. Wal-Mart, Barnes and Noble (in store and online), used book stores, the little 25 cent books at the college. The only books I don't buy are ebooks.

[Desiree]

my book are free i do not pay for not one the authors i now send them to me and i do blogs

[An]

An online store called Booktopia

[Ravencrantz]

I get books from a local bookstore, amazon, half.com, and my local library. I have a problem with checking outmore books than I can read in three weeks, but the renew online option is a wonderful thing~

[[deleted user]]

I do both eBooks and real books. The real books I usually get from the library book sale or a thrift store and the eBooks I usually get from Barnes and Noble.

[Kirsten]

Local discount/charity shops (Goodwill, Value Village and Salvation Army), local used bookstores (Boudicca Books, and Book Re-view), Chapters/Smithbooks/Coles (usually from the Bargain Books area), and then bookdepository.com, BookCloseOuts.com, Chapters.indigo.ca, garage sales, flea markets, and then I was just introduced to FishPond.com

lol I may be addicted.

[Robin (Saturndoo)]

I buy books at several different places. My library has several shelves of for sale books all year long. If you bring your own bag/bags you can browse the shelves,pick the books you want to fill up your bag for $1 a bag. Or you can buy paperbacks for $0.25 hardbacks for $0.50. These are usually books the library has more than one copy of, damaged but still readable,books they no longer want or ones that were donated that they can't use. Sometimes the library gets donations of "newer" books which aren't included in the bag of books sales and then the prices are $1 for paperback $2 for hardback.

I also buy books at yard/garage sales,used bookstores,Goodwill or Salvation Army, Hastings,Barnes& Noble store,Wal-mart,Target,K-mart.

For my kindle of course Amazon and the various web-sites that list the free kindle books.

[Christen]

Amazon
Barnes and Noble
and local bookstores

[LIZA]

I shop at my local thrift-stores. They always seem to have what I am looking for in the price range I need it to be. :)
And if Im desperate and need it, I will go onto half.com or amazon.com
Happy hunting!

[Desiree]

i do not buy book i get them free form the author here on fb and amazon and group i am blogger an reader of books and will do them up to 4 week

[[deleted user]]

Normally I get my books at Indigo.

[Dee Gonzalez]

I usually get my books from Amazon, Costco, Walmart, or my local grocery. I have to stop myself from buying more books because I have about 100 that I've purchased and haven't yet read. I don't have an ereader. After visiting the Library of Congress, I have decided to not buy one..where we will be when books are not sold in hard copy any longer??

[Monica]

I buy my books at Barnes and Noble, Amazon, Goodwill, Library book sales, independent book sellers. My e-books I buy from Amazon for free. I vary rarely pay for any of the books on my Kindle Fire.

[Laura]

I don't have a specific location, if I see a book that I want somewhere and it is under $10 I will usually buy it.

I also use the library and get really cheap books for my Kindle on Amazon.

[[deleted user]]

I buy my books from Barnes and Noble, Book-A-Million, Salvation Army, Goodwill, used book stores, library book sales, Amazon, Ebay and etc.lol

[Shannon]

Amazon,Barnes and Noble, other people at work that have read and share their books, and pixel of Ink.

[Valerie]

#1 - Amazon
#2 - Half Price Books (love their clearance section!)
#3 - garage sales/thrift shops

[Michelle]

I'm really sad because there aren't any independent bookstores where I live anymore. There are only the big chain ones left which annoys me immensely.
Because of this I've taken to buying from The Book Depository a lot more lately as they are so much cheaper than everyone else and free delivery is a huge bonus.

[Lilac]

Most of the books I read come from the library but when I actually buy them they come from The Works (really cheap) or if it's a new release I really want or a more unknown book I'll buy if off Amazon.