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Where do you buy your books?
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Rebekah Faith
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Feb 17, 2011 02:15PM
Aww, that sucks.
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I was afraid that the Borders in the town next to mine might go out of business...but it's not going to so I'm very happy!
Ours isn't either. I think most of them are near a Barnes and Noble....
The Borders (along with 16 in my area) are closing. It's kind of sad. Barnes & Noble is closer anyways, and if I get a Kindle soon then I can shop online.
Yeah, I don't know of another big chain bookstore nearby until you hit NYC. I'd guess there's at least one in White Plains, the smaller city that's a little closer, but even that's not too close. They don't have to worry about competing if there's no one to compete with.Sadly the independent bookstore in my town closed last year, although the one in the town on the other side of ours is still open. (yay!)
Dirt Cheap Books is good, although they only get random books in. Last time I went I found one copy of Rise of a Hero, the only book I was missing in a trilogy. Nice coincidence, seeing as that was the only one they did have. For most books though, I go to bookstores like Dymocks or Collins
I tend to buy my books at Barnes and Nobles or at grocery stores. Otherwise I just get them from the library if I can't find any money. ;)
i just got a $25 dollar gift card to Borders!!! i cannot check books out of my school library because i have to pay a fine!! lol :)
Well then I'd pay that fine. :)
We don't have fines at the school libraries. We just can't take books out if we have any overdue, and I don't think we can take out more than two at a time. But then there's the town library. We get fines there, but you can still take stuff out until you have a 25 dollar fine, which if it's for one book, is 250 days.
wow. and i doubt that one book generally gets that high.
No, it's more of an issue for if you lose a book, or have a bunch overdue, or if it's a movie. Those are 2 dollars a day, so it goes by a lot faster, and if you have multiple movies over due.....you get the point.
i go to my town library....which is worse than the school library :(
Soli wrote: "My best friend just LOVES cats. I was helping her find some books about cats. We were at school, and my school has a tiny selection, but we find the "Warriors" seires. Ever since we found those boo..."i LOVE warrior series. i read all of them! does she have a goodreads account?
Emma wrote: "i go to my town library....which is worse than the school library :("Worse than the school library? Really? My school library this year is bad enough, but the middle school one was AWFUL. Our town library is really good, and it's part of a county system, so even if our library doesn't have it, I can put almost anything on hold and get it, although sometimes it takes a while.
My school libraries have never been great, though I didn't start using my public library until 6th/7th grade.
Kate wrote: "Emma wrote: "i go to my town library....which is worse than the school library :("Worse than the school library? Really? My school library this year is bad enough, but the middle school one was A..."
our library is coverd with Harry Potter books....they have 5 of each. But they dont have the 4th series of Warriors! its awful...my school has it but i have to pay a fine because i didnt return my book "flipped" oh well...
If we haven't returned the book to the school by the next time we get a report card, then we don't ge the report card, but that's basically it. I had forgotten about that part. Plus, I can take out a book for longer from the town library than the school library so I don't have to worry about it being overdue as much.We've got our fair share of popular books, but there's usually at least one copy of the others too.
I kid you not, when I read your post, Kate, I went, "Wait, who died?" :P
Taylor wrote: "I kid you not, when I read your post, Kate, I went, "Wait, who died?" :P"Well, I mean, it is like a death. The death of the book-reading world. A lot of the small bookstores are gone, and now one of the big chains is having problems? This, my friends, is a serious issue.
Oh, I totally know what you mean. I agree that there is a problem here.
Too bad the rest of the world doesn't agree.
NcNally Robinson.I doubt you've heard of them, since I live in Canada.
Oh, and Amazon.
I've never heard of borders. :( Is it only in certain places?
It's a fairly widespread international chain. Where do you live?
There should be a couple near you. Maybe a Barnes and Noble?
We do have a Barnes and Noble. What's the difference between it and Borders?
Different companies. You probably don't have a Borders because of your B&N. Borders closed a lot of its stores- most of which were in the same places as B&N had stores.
Ah ok that makes sense. But I do love B&N....that's where most of my Christmas and Birthday money goes. lol :D
Borders did close a lot of stores, but only recently. If that was the issue, Borders would have been there until this year. Probably, they didn't think the area had a chance of supporting more than the one big store.
There's a second hand bookstore downtown I like going to. The lady has a thick accent and the place is brightly lit. She let's you read there as well, which is awesome. (Not to mention wicked sales! :D) I've ordered from Amazon a few times and been pleased with the results. I don't like Barnes and Noble, however, because I feel so uncomfortable in their stores, like I'm intruding on something sacred... The library is off limits because I have some late fees I have to pay off, but it's a great place to find great reads nevertheless.Librarians are scary though, so be careful! D:
Librarians are not scary! (Ok, maybe some of them are)My mom and I just bought about 500 dollars worth of books for twenty five dollars at my library's used book sale. It's very exciting. Except that I'm not supposed to read them until the summer. Not that I'd have the chance anyway. I hate finals studying.
Hey, Kate, at least you won't run out of reading material over the summer. :D
Good luck, Kate. I know how those can be. (SO glad I'm done with them until next year!)
You would think that would be true, Frank. I personally probably bought 15 or so books. Last summer I finished 17 in the first three weeks, over 50 all together. I read fast and often. But still, I've got a good head start.Thanks Rae.
I found out that the little town that my grandparents live in has a second hand book store. I think I'm gonna go check it out.
I love secondhand bookstores. You never know what you'll find.
Lately I'm falling in love with Books A Million. They have cheapy tables, and you can get great books in perfect condition for less than five bucks. This week I got
for a total of only $11. Two of those were hardcover!Also, I buy lots of books off Amazon, although I hate the $4 S&H. Living in a town without a big bookstore, though, I sometimes have to deal with it.
Then there's a secondhand bookstore downtown that I like to check into now and then, but it doesn't have a large YA/Teen section. It does have the cheapest Stephen King Books in town, though! I picked up Cujo hardcover for $3 in great condition.
Im not a huge reader but I got one book from b&n and one from a book store near by but I just ordered a kindle so my books are now coming from Amazon
POW, I understand that you want to promote your book, but that comment is considered spam. As spam is strictly against the group rules, please delete this post. Sorry to sound mean, but it's the rules.
woww. i guess i came in late because i didn't get to read POW's comment. Oh well, i never really knew what a spam was anyway... ok,so i ususally get my books from barnes and noble, but there's also a book store in maplewood, a bit of a distance from where i live, called Words Bookstore, and i also get my books from there. woww. this comment is unnecessarily long, so i don't really mind if people stop reading at like, the 3rd line. ok so... i guess i'm done here. ~Peace <3
Barnes and Noble is my favorite place. Sometimes I cheat and go to Borders or Books-a-Million though...
Well, unfortunately, I don't think you're going to be cheating with Borders for much longer.
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