SO, HOW OR WHERE DO YOU GET MOST OF YOUR BOOKS?

Flatbush · ‎07-18-2015

My local library has a greyt book sale @ the beginning of each month. The prices are right...$1.00 for hard backs, and .25 cents for soft covers. Each time I go to them I carry home a big bagful of books. Some are by authors I know, and some by unknowns. I never know what I have til I open the covers and start to read.

twinny70 · ‎07-03-2012

I buy books for a quarter and sometimes two for a quarter at my hometown library most of the time. Sometimes at a garage sale and quite often get them for free at the "little yellow book house" , just around the corner from our house. It's fun to read different authors too. Then I don't feel bad if they are thrown away while we are on vacation. Most of the time I can find a library or little yellow book house to put them in.

SWEET · ‎03-09-2010

I used to buy used books at my library but haven't been there in a while since I've been getting most of my books from giveaways from Goodreads, etc.

Most of my books come from various Little Free Libraries in my area.

Desertdi · ‎03-13-2010

Amazon for best sellers. Thrift stores for "other" novels, mysteries, etc.

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qualitygal · ‎10-04-2010

I did the book sale at the Library but then I either have to store them or turn them back in to be resold. Either way, that time has passed for me. Got tired of either option.

teganslaw · ‎03-11-2010

I download library books to my Kindle for free. They're on loan for three weeks. I have a collection of books I ordered throughout the years, but now I mostly use my Kindle.

"The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog."

Mark Twain

PickyCindy · ‎10-17-2010

I buy mine from Target or Amazon. Then after reading I donate them to my area's thrift stores (especially the humane society). Haven't been in a library in years and also haven't wanted to download on Amazon's kindle (I like holding a book in my hands). That's just me.

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

Our library has become more about social services than books and reading (except for kids) now. They do things that I can't comprehend being a mission for a library.

Foxxee · ‎10-03-2014

When I was young, always went to the library. Then it was used and new bookstores. Then Amazon came along. There I mostly purchase used "like new" books, occasionally new.

No eBooks for me.

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

@Foxxee wrote:
When I was young, always went to the library. Then it was used and new bookstores. Then Amazon came along. There I mostly purchase used "like new" books, occasionally new.

No eBooks for me.

@Foxxee I am like you except I use more e-books than anything else. I am so taken with the convenience. And trust me I was and am a "book" lover. But they are too hard to hold, stack up in the house, etc.

I read almost everything on my IPad mini now. I am so in love with that device! I have a Kindle too, and like it, but have fallen out of LOVE with it! LOL!!

I'll buy a book not e-book if it is about a serious topic like the founders of the US, a beautiful cookbook or decorating book, but that's about it.