(untitled) lainchan / lit ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2014-10-28 17:44 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 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 >>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 Flea markets, used book-stores, and trading. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2014-10-28 20:13 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 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 >>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 >>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 Local library or the one of my university, used book stores, sometimes normal bookstores too, rarely Amazon. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2014-11-09 22:03 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 if they know what you read they know who you are all darknet here ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2014-11-11 01:35 Second-hand bookshops are a goldmine, and I'm fortunate enough to live somewhere with quite a lot. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-02-01 04:55 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 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 >>1784 I found one like those where I live, but it was full of pedagogical material for teachers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-08-17 10:50 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 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 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 megacorp amazon ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-08-19 08:43 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.