/lit/ - Literature

>>18956125
I actually don't have a favorite used bookstore, I browse multiples, but to be completely honest, I try to avoid "used bookstores", they usually charge crazy prices (5-10-20 euros or so). The best are the thrift shops where books are not the core business - those were they also sell furniture, clothes, random objects, see pic (of course I'm not speaking about upper end antiquarian stores). These ones usually don't really know the value of a book, so they just throw them at you. The actual used bookstores """know""" the value and they just try to scam you. It wasn't just one time that I've seen the exact same edition for 10 or 20 bucks while I had payed mine 1-2.

On top of that

my library sometimes has books on a table "FREE TO TAKE, OTHERWISE WE TRASH THEM"
Bookcrossing in random public places or bars, degree of strictness vary (some will tell you "just take them bro", some will ask you to bring them back, some will ask you to bring something else back)
Literally taking them from the trash (paper bins, not generic trash bin)