Where do you buy/get your books from?

[Rosun]

My last 3 purchases were from the airport! Now don't ask me how much time I get to read! :D

[Rosun]

Parikhit wrote: "I am really annoyed now. I ordered two books from Home Shoppe 18 ..."
Home Shoppe 18 for books? Please be kidding! I thought they sell only "home" stuffs. My roomate did buy an awesome non-stick pot from there! :P

[Alka]

Preferably from libraries. If not available, then from online stores like Flipkart and giftsmill or book shops like Midland and Reliance timeout which give discounts. I am in Delhi and there are many options available thankfully but in a smaller city like Bhopal for instance, options are limited.

[Adam]

Blossom Books, Church Street
Bookworm, Shrungar Complex, off MG Road & in land off Brigade Road
Strand, Manipal Centre

All of these much better than Crossword on Residency Road

Greetings from Adam in London

[Ahtims]

flipkart was very economical just 6 months ago. I dont know what happened thereafter. I ordered 8 books for my son from Homeshop, 5 were delivered and 3 were out of stock. I never thought Enid Blytons would be out of stock! Since those were COD I didn't bother much.

[Ahtims]

I had been to bangalore recently and was disappointed with the crosswords store at Garuda mall.

[Rosun]

Smitha wrote: "I had been to bangalore recently and was disappointed with the crosswords store at Garuda mall."

Crosswords never has anything. Same here in Mumbai too. Pulp fiction and so called 'classics'. Too regular!

[Ritika]

Hi.. can anyone suggest some good libraries in delhi?? I'm a member of the american centre lib (K.G. Marg, CP) but their fiction collection is quite disappointing.. same goes for british council, poor fiction collection.. want to take a break from buying books, my folks arent too happy with me :)

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Smitha wrote: "I had been to bangalore recently and was disappointed with the crosswords store at Garuda mall."

You should have checked out Landmark in Forum mall or Blossom Book house in Brigade Road when you visit Bangalore.

[Anbu]

Numey wrote: "Smitha wrote: "I had been to bangalore recently and was disappointed with the crosswords store at Garuda mall."

You should have checked out Landmark in Forum mall or Blossom Book house in Brigade ..."


Yes, Col. As you had been to MG Road, you could have visited Blossoms at Church Street just 100mts from MG Road..

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Anbu wrote: "Numey wrote: "Smitha wrote: "I had been to bangalore recently and was disappointed with the crosswords store at Garuda mall."

You should have checked out Landmark in Forum mall or Blossom Book h..."

Okay so I suppose you're a Bangalorean, Odyssey and Reliance TimeOut are good too right?

[Anbu]

Numey wrote: "Okay so I suppose you're a Bangalorean, Odyssey and Reliance TimeOut are good too right?..."

After getting used to online shopping for books, I just visit bookstores to check for the interesting books so that I can place the order.. :P.. So for me any bookstore would do.. :)

The only bookstore I still buy books is Blossoms.. You can't come out of blossoms without buying at least one book.. That is not the case with other bookstores at least for me..

[Tim]

I recently discovered a wonderful second hand bookshop on Church St Inn in Bangalore called the Goobes Booke Republic. It has inspired me in some of the literacy work I am now doing - wrote about it in my blog http://wp.me/1Sdyx

[Alka]

Ritika wrote: "Hi.. can anyone suggest some good libraries in delhi?? I'm a member of the american centre lib (K.G. Marg, CP) but their fiction collection is quite disappointing.. same goes for british council, p..."

which area do you live in? If convenient for you, there is a geeta bhavan library at hauz-khas. There is also a bookshop in Hauz khas market which gives books with a reading charge, so you need to buy a book and then sell it back to him (@ cost price - reading charge). In Delhi you can also opt for online libraries like bookmeabook.com, friendsofbooks.com etc. Hope this helped.

[Anbu]

Tim wrote: "I recently discovered a wonderful second hand bookshop on Church St Inn in Bangalore called the Goobes Booke Republic. It has inspired me in some of the literacy work I am now doing - wrote about ..."

Oh didnt know about this.. Will check this out this weekend.. I know Blossoms there.. I will check this out as well,..

Thanks Tim.. :)

[Parikhit]

Tim wrote: "I recently discovered a wonderful second hand bookshop on Church St Inn in Bangalore called the Goobes Booke Republic. It has inspired me in some of the literacy work I am now doing - wrote about ..."

I bought effectively 21 books this weekend from Blossoms at Church Street and Bookworm at MG road. Bookworm is worth visiting. Blossoms will remain a favourite though. I will check out the one you mentioned Tim. Funny for Gubbe in Kannada means owl :) Don't know if that is intentional :)

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Anbu wrote: "Numey wrote: "Okay so I suppose you're a Bangalorean, Odyssey and Reliance TimeOut are good too right?..."

After getting used to online shopping for books, I just visit bookstores to check for the..."

Blossom is really Awesome and the have almost all new released books. Everything about it is awesome! When I'm inside its like a complete book world and it's location makes going to Brigade Road more wonderful. And since Corner House and also some aquarium is also nearby I really like going there.

[Ritika]

"Alka wrote: which area do you live in? If convenient for you, there is a geeta bhavan library at hauz-khas. There is also a bookshop in Hauz khas market which gives books with a reading charge, so you...

Finally someone replied.. yay!! :) Thanks a ton, vil check out all the options u mentioned asap! I put up near Nehru Place btw, any libraries nearer to that you know of?? although even Haus Khas isnt very far..

[Tim]

Anbu wrote: "Tim wrote: "I recently discovered a wonderful second hand bookshop on Church St Inn in Bangalore called the Goobes Booke Republic. It has inspired me in some of the literacy work I am now doing - ..."

You're welcome - pass on my regards to the owner (Tim from England)

[Tim]

Parikhit wrote: "Tim wrote: "I recently discovered a wonderful second hand bookshop on Church St Inn in Bangalore called the Goobes Booke Republic. It has inspired me in some of the literacy work I am now doing - ..."

Must be - there is a picture of the owl. 20 odd books - that is some appetite!!

[Aditya Joshi]

I'd been in Bangalore last week. Went down to M.G road. Blossoms is awesome. The rates aren't too good but they have got quite a good collection of old books in good quality. It's like a complete book store - properly sorted and categorized. Worth trying.

[Gopal]

If people are interested in online reading, u can read books online @ www.onread.com [txt, lit, epub, html are some of the formats available]

If folks are interested in downloading books then www.epubbud.com is another good source for books.

[Alka]

Ritika wrote: ""Alka wrote: which area do you live in? If convenient for you, there is a geeta bhavan library at hauz-khas. There is also a bookshop in Hauz khas market which gives books with a reading charge, so..."

Sorry, didnt reply earlier. I havent explored near Nehru Place. But I do know of a book shop in the Nehru Place electronics market which sells old books at very low rates. I wont be able to give the exact address though.

[Rajnish]

sunday bazar in Dariya ganj is the cheapest and longest bazar for books I have ever seen
books need to searched from the piles..this only hassele

[Ram]

indiaplaza and uread....both are far cheaper than flipkart

[Ritika]

Alka wrote: Ritika wrote: ""Alka wrote: which area do you live in? If convenient for you, there is a geeta bhavan library at hauz-khas. There is also a bookshop in Hauz khas market which gives books with a reading charge, so..."

Sorry, didnt reply earlier. I havent explored near Nehru Place. But I do know of a book shop...

Thanks again, i have also heard of the bookshop in Nehru Place, but never found it.. will give it another go i guess.. :)

[Lubna]

Ram wrote: "indiaplaza and uread....both are far cheaper than flipkart"

How is the service here, at Indiaplaza and uread?

[Gaurav]

I buy from Indiaplaza. Their service might irritate you a bit in terms of delay, but they are priced way lower than flipkart. Book quality is also good. So since I have a pipeline of books waiting I dont mind the delay.

Anybody knows a good bookshop where they actually help you select books...sort of a recommendation etc based on what all you buy/read?

[Ritika]

U can get recommendations on goodreads.com..lol :)
Dont know any bookstores in Delhi where people recommend you books, they're mostly having trouble finding the ones you ask for only.. Midland in South Ex I find the best among all, they have a really good collection..

Apart from that, you can ask people on this forum for recommendations too.. most are pretty well read and all :)

[Anbu]

Gaurav wrote: "I buy from Indiaplaza. Their service might irritate you a bit in terms of delay, but they are priced way lower than flipkart. Book quality is also good. So since I have a pipeline of books waiting ..."

In Crosswords, they have a separate shelf named, "Crossword Recommends".

But yeah, the best way is to get the recommendations here.. :D

[Girish]

Sapna book store ( Gandhi nagar) has a decent collection of books.

[Ram]

Lubna wrote: "Ram wrote: "indiaplaza and uread....both are far cheaper than flipkart"

How is the service here, at Indiaplaza and uread?"

Its little poor...many books arrive late but i already have books in buffer so no problem,but the packing and price is good

[Rosun]

I found this small little book store situated in raghuleela mall in Vashi (Navi Mumbai). You can even order sort of- write down your preferences and they will call you back when it is in store. The collection of books is not that bad either.

[Rajuda]

Staying in a faraway Mumbai suburb, I have long been grappling with this problem. But I found a way out. In fact I uploaded a post on this topic to my blog only a couple of days back. Review it and let me have your comments please.
http://www.teega.com/2012/05/your-sea...

[Ahtims]

thanks, Raj. Great tips.

[Rajuda]

Smitha wrote: "thanks, Raj. Great tips."
thanks Smitha for that word of appreciation.

[Anjali]

A new branch of Sapna has opened near Central on MG Road in place of Crossword .....what a collection of Kannada books...only place apart from their Gandhinagar branch i guess has such a collection ...u get a 10% discount now since its a new store ...worth a look .....beautiful collection :)

[Vikas]

flipkart or bookadda

[Alka]

D R wrote: "Staying in a faraway Mumbai suburb, I have long been grappling with this problem. But I found a way out. In fact I uploaded a post on this topic to my blog only a couple of days back. Review it ..."

thanks for the effort, very nicely put-together blog

[Gaurav]

Ritika wrote: "U can get recommendations on goodreads.com..lol :)
Dont know any bookstores in Delhi where people recommend you books, they're mostly having trouble finding the ones you ask for only.. Midland in S..."

Agree..I get pretty good recos from Goodreads. But was just wishing to select books the traditional way at bookstore..where you can get to chitchat and get recos in person..wouldn't that be nice :)

Haven't been to Midland..will try it out..have to just sneak out of office :P

[Gaurav]

Anbu wrote: "Gaurav wrote: "I buy from Indiaplaza. Their service might irritate you a bit in terms of delay, but they are priced way lower than flipkart. Book quality is also good. So since I have a pipeline of..."

Crossword recommends are way to general and I always feel "sponsored" ... Goodreads recommendations and from reader's here is doing the trick for now :)

[Rags]

@Parikhit hey do post the list . would love to see it

[Ahtims]

which list?

[Rags]

Parikhit bought 21 books . so i asked him to post the titles

[Ahtims]

okay...

[Debolina]

Im joining in quite late. But in case most of you haven't visited it yet, do visit the site www.homeshop18.com They really do have some awesome deals, much better than Flipkart too. I got a set of 20 books this Feb and the total bill was 4000-something!!! All brand new books, paperback and hardcover included, some even shipped in from abroad and sent to me. So do check that out!

[Anbu]

Homeshop18 and uread are the only two websites I haven't yet tried for buying books.. So far all the sites I've tried delivered the book on time in good quality. I had never faced any issues so far (touch wood). :)

So When it comes to buy book online, I just choose the website which offers the book at a lesser cost as all are delivering on time :)

My current favourites are infibeam.com and indiaplaza.com..

Flipkart became costly nowadays... I could get 20% off in the Strand book store in my office itself. Why would I buy a book online with 15-18% discounts only.. I don't understand their new concept.. Increasing the price then advertising more on TV..

[Ahtims]

Homeshop 18 is quite reasonable, but then I ordered 10 books for my son, and received only 6 (others were out of stock, though not mentioned so at the time of order). Fortunately I had opted for COD, so no hassles with credit card payback

[Debolina]

Smitha: I guess they'll send you the remaining books too. This happened with me too, 02 of the books I ordered were out of stock. They got it shipped from the US and then sent it to me...

[Mayank]

www.junglee.com indexes results from many sites like homeshop18. indiaplaza, rightshopping etc and you can choose the site that is offering the lowest price. The site is owned by amazon, maybe the reason they dont list Flipkart results, but flipkart book are overpriced anyways.