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Anonymous 2014-10-28 17:44:29 No.466

I'm curious, lainchan: where do you get your physical books? Your local library, bookstores, flea markets, online? New/used?

Anonymous 2014-10-28 17:49:19 No.467

Local library, and I get some new ones as gifts from time to time, which I later trade for other used books which I later trade.

Anonymous 2014-10-28 17:51:07 No.468

>>466
Depends what I am getting the book for. Is it for a class I am taking? Usually online. Is it for research? Local library.

Pleasure books to add to my collection? A combination of garage sales, thrift shops, flea markets, etc. Wherever I can get them at a good price.

I get books that I want to read but don't necessarily have the money to buy at the local library, too…

Anonymous 2014-10-28 19:24:10 No.469

Flea markets, used book-stores, and trading.

Anonymous 2014-10-28 20:13:04 No.470

There libraries where I live are very small and don't really cater to my tastes. I don't have anyone to trade with either ;_; , so I have to buy most of my books - I prefer used bookstores. If I can't get what I want there I order a new copy from a regular store. Support your local dealer, fuck amazon and all that jazz.

Anonymous 2014-11-07 21:29:29 No.505

I've been buying online recently, not from Amazon but from bookdepository. They've had better prices than Amazon on a few items and they don't region lock you.

Anonymous 2014-11-08 00:34:18 No.507

>>470
I know Amazon are starting a Netflix-style book rental service soon. I'm not too sure if it allows for the rental of physical copies but may be something worth looking into.

Anonymous 2014-11-08 21:58:14 No.513

>>507
Why don't you support your local bookstores for buying/trading books?
Do you really need a drone to take them to your door?

Anonymous 2014-11-08 22:02:51 No.514

Local library or the one of my university, used book stores, sometimes normal bookstores too, rarely Amazon.

Anonymous 2014-11-09 22:03:33 No.517

If I'm looking for a particular book I buy it new from a bookstore.
I also look at random stuff in second-hand bookstores, I love to find some hidden treasure.
Most public libraries here are shit.

Anonymous 2014-11-10 02:42:33 No.518

if they know what you read they know who you are

all darknet here

Anonymous 2014-11-11 01:35:41 No.531

Second-hand bookshops are a goldmine, and I'm fortunate enough to live somewhere with quite a lot.

Anonymous 2015-02-01 04:55:26 No.765

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Bookdepository or local used bookstores.

For random stuff I either buy it at local stores if they are cheap enough or download them at libgen. If I know a title already well enough then I just order it from BD.

Anonymous 2015-08-17 08:50:10 No.1784

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I have the cutest little thing just down the block.
My town's an hour and a half from the nearest library, so the larger city's rotary club pitched in and built this to serve us locals.
It operates on the same idea as those "Take a penny, leave a penny" dishes at grocery stores and is half children's books and young adult and half assorted novels.

Anonymous 2015-08-17 09:26:35 No.1785

>>1784
I found one like those where I live, but it was full of pedagogical material for teachers.

Anonymous 2015-08-17 10:50:44 No.1786

Flea market,hand-me-downs, or buy from the internet.Search thoroughly,just saved $90 and found the latest version of a book i wanted.

Anonymous 2015-08-17 11:01:44 No.1787

Thrift stores, flea markets for buying of random fiction I want.

https://www.gutenberg.org give out all books that are no longer under copyright as ebooks, a lot of classic books. That site is the main reason I got an e-reader.
https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top

If I want to read a specific book I might be it online because the Vegas odds are that my local bookstore won't have it

>>1784
We have these but bigger, great for unloading all the books you don't want any more and getting some new ones.

Anonymous 2015-08-17 15:29:00 No.1788

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There's a bookstore that specializes in under cutting the campus book store. When they have books that don't sell, they put them on a give away table. I also go to the library.

Anonymous 2015-08-18 16:36:26 No.1793

megacorp amazon

Anonymous 2015-08-19 08:43:11 No.1801

Bookstore, I don't like read on the computer so I always buy my books there. The computer/programming/unix related I buy it online because the best are in English and I'm not a native speaker so in the bookstores there's not book of those topics in English.