/lit/ - Literature

You found what a bookstore? What third world shithole are you from?

>>12331023
>place that’s not Barnes and Nobles
Worth it

>>12331015
Used bookstores are both a blessing because they have so much cool stuff very cheap, and a curse because a lot of the time it's poorly organized and sorted. Spend a whole day there and come back frequently. Have fun!

>>12331268
I completely agree, organization was horrible but it had some sweet finds, got three of the books I wanted for only $11

>>12331015
I've never been in a used books store.
I hope that one day I will stumble upon one.

>>12331313
I’ve found I have a LOT where I live, lots of places that sell used books at great prices. Very lucky because I want to buy most of the top 100 list and read it this year.

Hard to say how long it will stay. Several in my area have come and gone. There’s one a bit away that’s been there many years though. They know how to stay afloat

>>12331015
There's a great used book store about 15 minutes from my house. I don't even mind that it's in a bad area. I'll spend a few hours there about once a month

>buying used books that people read while on the toilet

poor people disgust me

>>12331382
>not seeing the value of a dollar

rich people disgust me

>>12331368
I was thinking about that too, she sold me 3 books for $11 which was crazy cheep and there were not many people there

>>12331015
>How long will I be here /lit/
You're already gone anon. You took the picture and left. You've got your meme points.

I like to rub my cock over every book I sell. I can only laugh every time I see somebody talk about that "real book smell" while denigrating e-readers.

>>12331582
Don't lie anon, you don't have a job

>>12331429
Enjoy your e coli.. poop book boy.

>>12331630
What’s with people thinking people shit on books? Who the hell is going around shitting on books?

>>12331663
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NygOFsExGMU

>>12331663
Germs and bacteria can travel up to 6ft when a toilet is flushed. If you have a book in the bathroom, it's now covered.

>>12331382
It’s not like they wiped their ass with it.

>>12331298
Wat u got

>>12332638
Seriously, people worried about used books obviously don’t want to read they just want to own as many expensive shelf things as possible

>>12332648
The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas
The Trial - Kafka
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce

>>12331015
Is this a used book store? Because we have a chain of them where I live called “Half Priced Books” and they are awesome.

>>12331015
15 minutes once you realize it’s all John Grisham, Stephen King, Nora Roberts and self help books

>>12333100 same. been getting a shit load of books from my local hpb stores

>>12333100
Yup, used as hell. Had a semi nice selection of classics for a damn fine price but had 1/2 the store taken up by cheap romance novels. Good for the handful of things I can get from there, but rather shit for much else.
Good thing I have more stores to choose from around town. Wish I had a used chain around town too though, sounds nice

>>12333116
There was a lot of that shit there I won’t lie

>>12331332
>>12331268
The problem is most used bookstores are full of books normies read. I went to one the other day and the most /lit/ stuff I could find were a few fantasy books and Lovecraft

>>12333138
I can’t deny that, I wish their classic section was larger. I swear they had a whole damn wall for James Fucking Patterson

>>12333138
this is very true. reeeeeeeeeeeee

>>12331015
Please tell me they have a sorting system. I don't see any shelf labels

>>12331582
lmfao

What does this store have against upright books?

>>12331382
Bookshops have a flagging system for bathroom books that keeps them out of the stores

Kek, you shitters who never come out of your houses should see how the printing paper gets trashed or dropped on a dirty ass floor before it's used for the books that you keep beside your bed. Most of those were also dropped on the floor where people who stepped in shit walked on

>>12331368
Faggot

>>12331582
fucking kekked

t. e-reader pleb

>>12331015
Is that in Tacoma, WA? There's a place like that there. I found a copy of the Exorcist there. There were side rooms, upper rooms, back rooms and books stacked everywhere.
I asked the desk lady if she had a copy of it and she said "If we do, it will be in the upper room on the left."
I crept up there into a very cramped room with a low ceiling and books double stacked on shelves creating narrow aisles.
I looked for long while, but couldn't find anything. Then just as I was about to give up, I saw one stack I hadn't looked behind. When I moved it out of the way, the music from the Exorcist movie was playing in my head and there was one early edition copy of the book. 70's purple cover and all. Excellent book, highly recommended.

>>12331015
>The Corrections
Top kek
Most of it looks like Anglo bullshit. Go to a real bookstore m8.

>>12331368
Shut up, fatass

>>12334212
I exercise regularly

>>12333062
shouldda stayed home
and on reddit

>>12334244
Quiet, butterface.

>>12334298
I think her face looks nice.

In order to function and sift through all the retards like you, she must have a lot of character

>>12334307
Whiteknight cuck

That fatass won't fuck you for your beta chivalry

>>12334326
Your line of logic and reasoning is unbelievably more childish than me though, just saying

>>12334347

>>12334356
I believe in God

>>12331268
I got an oxford bible for 50 cents once. it was an old edition but still

>>12333138
Luckily I live near a used bookstore that exclusively sells classics, humanities, science, math etc. No pop lit whatsoever.

do y'all buy books that youve already read or just take a chance and grab a random book?

I guess I take used bookstores for granted where I live, never occurred to me they are probably rare for most people.

>>12334063
Nope but I have another place downtown thats exactly like what you are describing, books are everywhere like literally every place you look

>>12334460
I didn’t have a lot in my home town so when I moved it was a pleasant surprise

>used books

imagine being this poor.

>>12333122
>>12333124
Half priced books is a dogshit used book store. Find a real used book store.

>>12336346
>new books

Imagine losing this much money

>>12331268
That curse also helps you though from making it harder for others to find good shit. At my local place that looks messier than this I've found:
Plotinus - Enneads
Avicenna - Metaphysica
Buber - I and Thou
Rousseau - Confessions
and a Kleist collection

>>12336597
When I have a bunch of stuff I want to read I don’t want to spend $30+ for each book used book stores are the best

>>12336346
it's pretty good fampai. all my pynchons came from used bookstores and were in pristine conditions. the brainlet(s) who owned them clearly gave up after a few pages and i got some practically new books for less than half their retail price.

>>12333818
>>12331630
>>12331382
What's an immune system?

>>12337197
>>12337197
>trying to justify your scat fetish

>>12331015
Depends on the pace at which you read

>>12337604
Fair to moderate, it will be faster one day I guess

>>12331382
>spending 20 bucks instead of 3 cause you're afraid some person had it in the proximity of his ass once
i guess people like you is why they are so cheap to begin with huh

>>12337681
Glad to see there are more people here being reasonable about used books like you good sir

>>12338426
>like you good sir
*tips fedora*

>>12331676
checked and kekd

>>12336346
he doesn't only read out of print books plebian

>>12338445
Don’t know many ladies who look good in fedoras but if it floats your boat to think so

>>12334256
why are you rude? montecristo is better than your favourite book

>>12338783
I take most of the threads as having shit heads like him in them, I try to stick around for the few good people

>>12333779
what would such a system be? how could it even be known?

>>12338739
apseudsayswhat?

>>12331015
You're already gone.

>>12331382
Daily reminder that even now, billions of microscopic particles of poo are landing on your skin, eyeballs, etc.

>>12338739
A good woman looks good in anything, but she especially looks good in nothing. Thank you, gentlemen!

>>12331015
kek

>>12331382
my immune system, chiseled by the feces of fellow proletariats, laughs at your anemic bourgeoisie frailty

>>12340980
Dear G*d

>>12331382
Based Anon
Kill all poors, or at least ban them from books

>>12331015
did they have any used comics

>all these soft covers
s o y

>>12339703
[spoilers]it's a seinfeld joke[/spoilers]

>>12331268
>they have so much cool stuff very cheap
I wish. It's literally cheaper to order brand new from overseas than fucking buy anything in Australia.
>>12333138
Also this.

>>12341954
There was a store near that sold second-hand book for a steal. But then they closed .

>from overseas
eh, my wallet is getting molested by shipping, income taxes and GST.

>>12333779
Huh? Really?

>>12340966
To be honest she doesn’t look that bad

>>12341223
hardback is for pseud you fuckmouth

>>12341218
I don’t think so actually

>>12331268
>poorly organized
You say that because you have never experienced these libraries in the pre-internet era. I used to go to a second-hand bookstore in an alley where an old man lighted his next cigarrette with the butt of the last one and had a (non-electric) typewriter on his all-metal 1960s style desk. The place was stuffed with books up to the roof, which was darkened and did not lack the occasional cobweb here and there. He knew where everything was and sent me on discovery trips navigating the overflowing bookshelves, going around the piles of books on the floor and on staircases steps, up and down that sacred temple of average sci-fi and occasional greatness. I will always hold him in loving memory. One day I found a younger man there who said he was his son; I kept going there for some time but he didn't know where anything was and the place closed soon after since he probably hadn't learned how to properly kill the city inspectors that wandered in, much less dispose of the bodies.