Where do you get your books from?

[HotDog Fish]

I go to my local book store...acutally it's local because it seems to be the ONLY bookstore, ever single book store is a Coles, Coles and Coles, it's the only bookstore chain here! Monopolization doesn't even BEGIN to explain how they operate here! Well anyways yahh, I get a lot of my books from Coles, mostly get historic books, encyclopedias and Fiction there

 

[Hamlet]

Originally posted by magic-monkey
Charity shops, mostly. If you can be bothered to look through them you can find classics for 20-50p a time, which is nice.

Indeed, they are very useful, especially when you're on a shoe-string budget.

 

[EdwardTking]

I like to browse bookshops too.

But some are becoming mummy and NOISY baby friendly.

I bought some good sci-fi paperback books in London
red light book shops (I think they buy them for display
so that they can pretend to be an ordinary shop and
avoid having to apply for a sex shop licence etc).

There are three benefits:

(a) Good Books!

(b) No NNNOOOIIISSYY Babies!

(c) It really pisses the sales staff off!

They have just about decided that I am a perv;
and are looking forward to twenty five pounds
for a pirated snowy video; when I buy a
second hand P K Dick for one pound. Lol!

 

[Jimcat]

Originally posted by EdwardTking

They have just about decided that I am a perv;
and are looking forward to twenty five pounds
for a pirated snowy video; when I buy a
second hand P K Dick for one pound. Lol!

They should be happy that you purchased some Dick.

 

[Grisu]

Originally posted by Eli
E-books.

Unlike many people out there, the only problem for me when reading from the monitor is that you cant take it to the toilet.

Oh silly me. I wanted to include that option but forgot about it

I usually get my books from amazon.de. I like to browse books in a bookstore, but in the end I buy 'em online because it is cheaper (in switzerland there's some kind of book cartel: no matter in which bookstore you buy your book it's always the same inflated price, so I get them from germany ).
The local library would be the cheap alternative but the unfortunately have a very limited english-books section.

 

[pi8ch]

Before i tried Amazoon I always bought at the local book stores...

But kno I order them most times at Amazoon because of several reason:

* Often they are cheaper
* I get nearly every book, in the store I had to order them sometimes (took up to some weeks!)
* I'm Austrian, and if I want the original version of the books, and not ther german translations, I order them at Amazoon, because there I get the originals for the original prices..
There is special-bookshop here for original books, but they are very expensice (about 50% more) because they are importet in small amount

* And I also try to write my own fantasy / sci-fi / adventure and political-history-fiction books, my head is full of ideas, I wrote much yet, but i never got the feeling that I realy finished one...

I have to work over them again, and maybe I will go to a publishger then

 

[Zwelgje]

I usually get my books at a shop that sells both new books at a low price and used books. I really like to walk in there every few weeks and just walk around and look what new (used books) they've got. Very rarely I spend more than 5 euro on a book there.