How do you get the reading materials

[godhelpme2]

I wonder how you guys get the reading materials successfully.
Buy books, read online,or borrow books?
As I am in China, it is difficult for me to get the original edition of contempary English novelsl. And reading online is rather bad for eyes.
Need your information.;)

[ClaesGefvenberg]

Buy books, read online,or borrow books?
In my case: All of the above, but the fact that we have a great library in town is what is really saving me: I would go bankrupt if I had to buy everything I read. :)

/Claes

[grace86]

You know, I never thought that it could ever be hard to obtain books...guess I've lived in a box all my life.

I usually buy my books. I borrow them from the library too. If I were you, I would try ordering some of the ones you really want online. Reading them online is hard on everyone's eyes I think. Good luck.

[EAP]

Library.
Internet.

[toni]

Buying, yeah, but I only purchase cheap books-the paperback editions- for I am but a poor girl. There is a certain bookstore here in town that sells Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens and Fyodor Doestoyevsky and other Literary greats for only 100 pesos! I think that is equivalent to 2 american dollars. I love cheap books.:lol:

For the poems, I just read them online.:D

[grace86]

Buying, yeah, but I only purchase cheap books-the paperback editions- for I am but a poor girl. There is a certain bookstore here in town that sells Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens and Fyodor Doestoyevsky and other Literary greats for only 100 pesos! I think that is equivalent to 2 american dollars. I love cheap books.:lol:

For the poems, I just read them online.:D

Yeah, that's another thing, I buy paperbacks...because they are a lot cheaper and I destroy them anyhow.

[Niamh]

I buy all my books in work. I work for a chain of book shops in ireland called Hughes and Hughes and i get a 30% discount on everything. I Purchased the Philip Pulman books for my friend in england and i got the three of them for about 13 euro as i got 30% off each of the books and it was a 3f2 offer.
Unforunately because i love books and i work in a bookshop, and read around two to three books a week i spend a lot of my wages before i even leave work. :blush:
But i dont mind really. i also buy books from amazon if i cant get them in ireland or if there out of print. you can get them very cheap. Also buy second hand or antiquarian. got Marlowes plays dating around 1900 for £4
in an antiquarian book shop in Lincoln england recently. bargain:)

[certiorari]

I buy my books at a Barnes and Noble bookstore :D. I'm surprised I still have money from all the books I buy. I sometimes borrow books from friends, but not very often. And if I want a german book, my brother goes to Germany every year so, I get him to buy the books for me (with my money of course).

I don't think I've ever bought a book online. Too much trouble, I think, what with shipping and handling and you have to wait.

[Niamh]

I don't think I've ever bought a book online. Too much trouble, I think, what with shipping and handling and you have to wait.

For me sometimes its my only option. especially if i'm set on getting a certain book and there is no other way but online. for example, i recently just got a copy of 'Letters to Molly' by J.M.Synge. been looking for it for years and ended up getting it online from america. spent four weeks waiting for it but it was worth it! it took me eight years to find it!