*inspired by reading thread* Where do you get your books?

[BedKnobbery2]

Since I'm too poor to buy new books, and have a lousy memory that results in waaaay too many library fines, I've found the best bet for me is to buy books at Goodwill or yard sales. I then save them all in a bag and give them to my Uncle, who has the same reading interests that I do. Where do you get your books, and what do you do with them when you are done?

 

[Kirby]

The library. I rarely buy books. I read so many of them that I would go broke buying them. If I had time to go to garage sales I might buy them there.

 

[piglet too]

I spend way too much money on "impulse" buys at the grocery store for my books! I like your idea of getting them at yard sales, I will have to go to some this weekend as I am in desperate need of some "new" reading material.

 

[disneygals]

I buy new paperbacks from Barnes and Noble online and then turn them in at a paperback exchange store. I also buy used books there. They have a "new release" section that makes it easy to find some newer books.

 

[Maleficent13]

I bought the Waldensbook club discount card a year ago for $10. I get 10% off every purchase there. I also accrue points. After you get a hundred points, you get a $5.00 gift certificate. Usually the points equal the dollars you spend, but sometimes they do promos (for example, i bought 2 of the new Harry Potter when they came out last June, and got double points for both of them).

Needless to say, the card paid for itself in about a month. I spend WAY too much money on books. My friends had to stage an intervention to keep me out of Borders!

 

[dumboiu]

I am very, very bad. I spend way too much money on books (expensive text books often times). I usually shop at Barnes and Noble since they are conveinent.

 

[newholiday]

Usually the library since this is where I spend most of my time. I can get many of the new releases first, extend my loan time, waive my fees, etc.
I did buy one at the Healthy Women seminar I attended this Sat - had it autographed.
At work yesterday I had the director order all 3 of Joan Anderson's book for the library.

 

[CajunDixie]

Mostly I get mine at a used store in Ft Wayne that has 2 branches. They trade like book for like books. Meaning if you bring in new or popular authors then you use your credit for the same type of book. Then the older/less well known authors are in a separate catagory. In the summers I hit garage sales too. Now when its the dead of winter and I don't want to drive all the way to FtW then I sometimes grab a few new releases at WalMart. And then there's occasionally the ever elusive book that fills out a series that I sometimes find on Half.com or Ebay.

 

[BedKnobbery2]

Okay, I know I'm taking my own thread off-topic but dumbo, I just wanted to make a suggestion re: your textbooks. I've had great success selling mine on Amazon. Even though I waited a year before selling them (to make sure they wouldn't be useful as reference in my job), I still got a good return on all but one of them (which had published a newer edition at that point).

Kirby, I read too much to buy new books, too. But I was beginning to feel like I was single-handedly funding the new wing on our library, I was so bad at remembering to return all of my books. I can't decide if the librarians were glad I stopped going (because the books were now available to more timely patrons) or sad (because I'd stopped funding the new wing.) LOL Now I just stop at Goodwill once every other week and buy 5-10 paperbacks for $1 each.

 

[CourtasanSatine]

library and cheap paperbacks from Wal-Mart

 

[FroggyinArk]

We get most of ours from the Discount racks at BooksaMilllion, and frtom walden books,, wal mart,, where eer we happen to find one we are looking for,, currently am bidding on a set of 10 hard backs to replace my worn paper back versions on e bay.. we get a lot of our off series and "quick" read books at flea markets, or garage sales,, those ar ethe ones we take with to the lake or the hospital waiting rooms,, we try and leacve the good hard covers at home ... << Going to adopt this smilie since we loook a lot alike

 

[Toby'sFriend]

usually half.com or Amazon Resellers when I buy. I read 4 to 5 books a week, my oldest son usually reads 3 or 4, and my middle son reads a couple -- we'd go broke at the "new" bookstores pretty quick.

We go to the town library about once a week and I check out a load. I know what you mean about the fines though.

 

[Meriweather]

I love books!!

We buy them at used book stores, Amazon, Costco, bookstores, yard sales......everywhere!
And we keep almost all of them. We have a library in our basement.

 

[Kermit]

The library. Although if I find a nonfiction book that I want to keep around for reference, I'll buy it on half.com. And I do buy good classics when I come across them. I mainly read old classics when I read fiction, and I want to have my house full of them when I have children old enough to read.

 

[Jenn Lynn]

Usually I buy books at Wal-mart or Sam's Club.

I am also able to go online to our library and put books on hold. Then they email me when they are in and hold them for 7 days. It's a really great program!

 

[dizneenut]

Library.

 

[UncleKyle]

I buy them everywhere. I average buying a book a week. I'm starting a library.

 

[katerkat]

I usually pick them up from the library if I'm just reading. If I like them and want to own them, I used to hit the used bookstores and eBay. Now, though... I work in a bookstore, so I get one free paperback every week, and my discount on other books is AWESOME! My hardbacks that cost $15 are around $6.

 

[pixiemomma]

barnesandnoble.com

Our library has a rather poor selection.

 

[crazywig]

i've had good luck at www.bookcloseouts.com