/lit/ - Literature

>>13300259
ebay, thrift stores, amazon, bookdepository, bookoutlet

>>13300259
book store or amazon for the most part

70% from op shops
20% from family and friends
5% from booktopia.com
5% pdf downloads

I find my favourite books second hand from op shops and I worry less about creasing and crinkling the pages.

100% library genesis

>>13300259
Piracy, library, internet shops, in that order. Unfortunately I live in a shitty tourist area and all the locally owned bookstores are scammers who buy shit off ebay and sell it for triple the price. Saw a $20 franklin library whitman I bought off eBay going for $80 at one of these local places.

>>13300259
Piracy 100% of my e-books. If you buy books at a time when you can get them for free it clearly signals that you have less than 100 iq.

>>13301501
>not wanting Aristotle's family to benefit from his work
You are part of the problem why good authors are going hungry.

>>13301518
If someone wants to write, it is assumed that he no longer cares about money. Writers for money must suffer anyway.

>>13300259
- Kindle
- Torrent some and put them on my Kindle
- Buy from bookstores (specially for classic literature or books that have recently come out)
- I buy online (Amazon or Booktopia.com.au)
- I read the Kick-Ass: Dave Lizewski Years comics on my old computer when I was younger

The majority of my books are from Amazon. Some are from used book stores. I like annotating my books so I usually buy new/unmarked.
Never bought an ebook or a kindle. The only reason I can think to use one would be if I were traveling and didn’t want to haul around an 800 page behemoth.

>>13301501
Money is hardly an object to me and I prefer hard copies. I will gladly hand over a fart’s worth of money so that I can have the physical copy and fill my library.

I buy from Indigo (Canada). Mostly online, sometimes in person.

>>13301535
>fill my library
Vain materialist

>>13301544
Aren't all of us to some degree vain?

>>13301535
My problem with printed copies is that sometimes it’s difficult to get exactly the book you need, especially when it comes to a particular edition and translation.

I usually use Amazon, but I just bought a $300 book from Abebooks.com.

I’m at the end of the expected time for delivery. If it doesn’t come today this will NOT be the last you hear of it. :3

>>13301628
>$300 book

>>13300259
I buy my books in Bookoff, a second hand shop in Japan, I never know what I'm going to find. Sometimes online from japanese e-commerces, and sometimes on Amazon when I really want to read a book but I can't find it anywhere.

>>13301648
300$ isn't to ridiculous of a price, I've got books costing more and I wouldn't say I've paid to much.

if i want something specific, i go to the little independent bookstore on my lane and order it from them. it's nice to support them and they do a loyalty card thing where i get a stamp each time i order something and a free book after every ten
if i just want to browse books and find something random that looks cool, i go to oxfam. i probably get most of my books there and it's nice to find cool things i didn't know i wanted and chat with helen, the retired theology teacher who works there and help support aid workers fucking foreign prostitutes

>>13301861
What book/edition cost $300?

>>13300259
I only buy books if the pirated editions are poor. I read them on my iPhone which is big enough for formatted PDFs and ebook formats

>>13301867
some harry potter special edition probably

>>13301872