Where do you buy books?

[lilbook]

Hey all! I wonder where you buy books? :yawnb: Do you buy them online or do you go to your favourite book store in your town / city? What is your favourite online store for books? My favourite store is Amazon :thumbs_up http://www.disearch.com/smiley04.jpg, since they are delivering very fast and never had any trouble with them. I wonder what your experiences are. And yes, I love online shopping ... but "offline" shopping is nice, too. :thumbs_up :)

[LadyW]

Waterstone. WHsmith. What else does a girl need? :D

[Homyrrh]

If you're already at Amazon, you shouldn't have bothered with this thread. Your average savings are at least 20-35% (AVERAGE, mind you) and there's always free shipping on in-store, Amazon orders over $25. That's only two or three books.

Meanwhile, my local B&N, Borders, Waldenbooks, etc. charges full price and I of course have to spend the $$$ to get there. Don't get me wrong, I still go in a store to look, but at least with Amazon I can get all my other purchases done too, from computer equipment to movies to groceries and everything in between.

[Homyrrh]

Waterstone. WHsmith. What else does a girl need? :D

I'd be careful throwing that last line out there :ladysman:

[LadyW]

I'd be careful throwing that last line out there :ladysman:
:lol: Hehe, good point!

[grace86]

I buy them everywhere and anywhere. If I absolutely cannot wait for a book, I will buy it at the bookstore (Barnes and Noble) even though it is expensive. The classics I get there are usually BN edition and very cheap. But Amazon is wonderful for both new and used books. But if I see a bestseller at Target while shopping for other things, or at the library book cellar of course there is absolutely no hesitation.

Sometimes, I just tend to acquire them.

Hey....does anyone else keep all their textbooks like I do? I can't bear to sell them back.

[Virgil]

I buy them everywhere and anywhere. If I absolutely cannot wait for a book, I will buy it at the bookstore (Barnes and Noble) even though it is expensive. The classics I get there are usually BN edition and very cheap. But Amazon is wonderful for both new and used books. But if I see a bestseller at Target while shopping for other things, or at the library book cellar of course there is absolutely no hesitation.

Sometimes, I just tend to acquire them.

Hey....does anyone else keep all their textbooks like I do? I can't bear to sell them back.

I have kept almost every book I have ever bought, and I'm older than you. ;) So guess how many books I've got. :D I'm flooded with books, books that i've never read or probably will never read. I'm addicted to buying books. It alwyas seems like oh I will get to that in a little while but I don't. :)

[Takeahnase]

Charity shops usually, it's actually strangely addicting hunting around in them to see what gems you might come across.
I don't tend to buy very many books, I just use the library... although if I desperately want to get hold of a copy of something I'll look for it second-hand firstly, and then perhaps resort to ebay (generally I find that the postage prices on amazon outweigh the advantage of saving on the actual price of the book, for all the books I've been interested in in the past anyway). Or, if there's an offer on or some kind of deal to be had in a bookshop I might sometimes buy a few books cheaply there. I'm rather a bargain-hunter and can't bear to pay full price for something :D I rarely read books more than once or on the odd occassion twice so it's not really worth it for me to buy my copies on a regular basis (not to mention, if started to make it into a solid habit I know I'd never be able to stop and my house would soon be flooded with books... not that that sounds all too unappealing, but for practical reasons it's probably best that I refrain from my urges).

Grace, I keep all of my textbooks and study guides too. Part of me wants to get rid of them because of all the hours I've spent slaving over them in those midnight cramming sessions before exams, but the other part of me can't bear to part with them because of the many hours I've spent with them over the duration of my courses, it would be almost like throwing away a huge chunk of my student life in a silly sort of way... it's the same with all books I own really, I get quite attached to my copies. But then, I'm also the type of person who can quite easily get attached to a plastic bag..

[Scheherazade]

From this wonderful place where they keep thousands and thousands of books at the town centre... And what's more, I get them for free!

[Niamh]

Hughes and Hughes first and foremost (only because i work there and get a 30% discount)
Then Hodges Figgis
Amazon
Other bookshops
Possibly in that order...:D

[Bakiryu]

I am not allowed to leave my house or shop online, so I get the books I need in parental outings to the thrift store or Walmart. Seldom, I go to Borders of Waldenbooks at the mall.

[Joreads]

I don't tend to buy many books anymore from book sellers any more their prices are to expensive. Big W, Myer, Target here in Australia sell books at 35% off RRP which is great. I also go to the local life line shop ( a charity) and there twice a year book sale which is great. The library is one of my favourite places for getting books. It also stops the problem of storage.

[aeroport]

I've been a Rewards member for about a year, and Borders has thus become a major source for me. They can be a bit expensive, but they regularly send me coupons for 30 and 40%, so it all works rather nicely.
Honestly, though, if I don't feel like I have to get out in the world, Amazon is still preferable.
*goes there now to order Hawthorne novels*



Hey....does anyone else keep all their textbooks like I do? I can't bear to sell them back.

YES! All of them. Most of them have use for me, but even the ones that do not are kept. I just dropped Bio, but I'm keeping that. Had to read Amy Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses, which drove me mad and which I did briefly consider getting rid of, but it's still here. Plus, I write all over my textbooks - :blush: - and am too lazy to go through and erase it all...

[Dori]

Barnes & Nobles, primarily, but I always look out for book recycles and garage sales. ;) ;)

[Homyrrh]

I am not allowed to leave my house or shop online, so I get the books I need in parental outings to the thrift store or Walmart. Seldom, I go to Borders of Waldenbooks at the mall.
I assume they don't allow garlic, holy water or sharpened crucifixes in your presence either then, right?

[Prole]

Waterstones in Belfast. However, I purged my bookshelves recently, giving to charity shops and the library where I thought they would be best suited, so I actually need to restock.
I've never actually bought a book secondhand (a have some, but never frequent second hand shops). Strange, given how bad the majority of modern day books are. Maybe I just like shiney/glossy things.

[LadyWentworth]

The stores that I frequent are Barnes and Noble, Half Price Books and Schwartz. Half-Price Books speaks for itself for why I obviously go there, but at Barnes and Noble I tend to only buy from the Bargain section. Schwartz is a local store. They tend to have a lot of books that I can't find anywhere else. Waldenbooks is OK, too, though. If I go to Borders, it is basically just to look. There is one near my ballet class. So I sometimes stop in and take a look.

Basically, though, I probably do most of my shopping with Amazon and Amazon UK. I have a habit of going into B&N and Borders and writing down all of the titles of books that interest me. Then I go home and add them onto my Amazon wishlist. :p

There is this really old bookstore here called Renaissance that I like (though the top floor is really creepy!). I miss the store called Scribner's. That was a great bookstore. Too bad it isn't around anymore. :(

[1n50mn14]

Second hand bookstores, all the way! I go to the Salvation Army, Bibles for Missions, Sunrise books, Value Village, Read it Again, etc. Cheap, and the books are already broken in, and often have intersting little tidbits in them. If I buy new books, it's usually at Chapters or a local, independent bookstore- the Bookshelf.

[thelastmelon]

I usually buy my books at Adlibris (http://www.adlibris.se), Bokus (http://www.bokus.se) or CDON (http://www.cdon.com). That's there I buy them online. Otherwise it's usually at our local bookstore Tyresö bokhandel (http://www.tyresobokhandel.se/) or Akademibokhandeln (http://www.akademibokhandeln.se/db/caweb/cc_start.abg). Any one heard of any of these? Very Swedish and Scandinavian.

Sometimes I also buy them at a second hand store here in Stockholm, but they don't always have what I'm looking for though. :)

[Idril]

I get almost all my books used from Amazon. I don't have a lot of local choices, there is only one bookstore here, isn't that crazy? In a community of about 75,000, there is one bookstore. :rolleyes: Granted it's a B&N so it's large and mildly impressive but they don't carry a lot of the books I'm interested, there's not a lot of call for Soviet lit in Bismarck, ND. :p

[Bakiryu]

I assume they don't allow garlic, holy water or sharpened crucifixes in your presence either then, right?

:lol: How did'cha know? Mustn't be too careful now, should we?