/lit/ - Literature

Mine always come damaged from UK Skymail. Rolled up like cardboard tacos. Key reason for switching to Ereader. If I can't get nice editions to begin with, why hoard paper?

>>16848265
I bought three books. After some time without notice they refunded to me. A month later one came, another month passed and other book came. So I got two books for free.

>>16848265
I bought one in july and it still hasn't arrived yet

>>16848358
That is pretty cool

>>16848358
>>16848400
what kinda fuckin books are you people buying

>>16848265
It was really good surprisingly. I live all the way in Australia yet all the books I’ve ordered from the UK have come on time and in very good condition. One of my books did get damaged after the postman left it outside on the foot of my door without knocking to tell me and it rained. When I emailed book depository about it, they refunded me in full even though it technically wasn’t their fault.

>>16848265
Takes longer than Amazon. Not worth it unless Amazon doesn't have it imo.

>>16848265
It takes like forever for the books to arrive, but delivery is free and I have like 2000 in my library that I haven't read yet, so what's the fucking problem right? Just don't order anything you actually need within two months and you're golden. I mostly order sci-fi since I can get other English titles in used book shops and the like.

>>16848265
Considering books I wanted would cost me 60 euros in shipping through Amazon, BD is not a bad option. You will wait longer than usual (25-30 days in my case) but except that everything is fine.

Their costumer service is responsive and helpful.

>>16848458
It's worth it if you don't live in the states or in europe, the free delivery is very useful desu

Few times, amazon and alibris are better if youre an amerishart desu. Though sometimes they are oddly the cheapest option or have euro specific editions you may want

Their prices tend to fluctuate a lot and they give me a 10% coupon every now and then. I have a wishlist which I check to see if the prices have dropped and lurk a lot. Good deals sometimes and fast shipping to Belgium (around two weeks after ordering).

>>16849013
Share the coupon if you have it, mate. They never give me shit :(

>>16849035
It's tied to your account iirc. I get them all the time too. Just check your email

>they stopped shipping to my country in something apparently unrelated to COVID

FUCK

So the consensus seems to be that they deliver but late or return money. I will try them after Christmas, i guess.

Came in like 5-7 days to the US. Not too bad.

Buy from whichever retailer has the best prices. It's all the same books.

>>16848455
This. If you live in Australia it is the best. Unlike booktopia, they actually send you the copy you bought. Booktopia literally sends you a penguin if they don't have the oxford in stock. I've paid more for a certain copy and they have sent me a lower priced version. It's fucked.

I would normally use them instead of amazon, they're very good

>>16848265
Ordered one yesterday. It takes 10-20 to my country but if they deliver its fantastic for the price. A lot cheapest than buying here

I did a week ago because the English release date for the book was several months earlier than locally. The guide said 10-15 business days so if I have it before Christmas it will be worthwhile.

>>16848265
All the time.
>how was it?
As usual. Had to wait around two weeks, they keep sending me those awful bookmarks, nothing out of the ordinary.

>>16848358
Same here, once I bought pretty much everything written by Clark Ashton Smith and the first volume didn't arrive. They refunded to me and 2 or 3 days later the postman dropped by with that book.

>>16849073
GOD FUCKING DAMNIT I THOUGHT THEY WERE PHYSICAL!!!
I just checked my email and I have a shitload of expired coupons.

>>16848265
I've ordered 21 books form them so far this year and they've all arrived. I've got one outstanding order but all orders take a long time to get to my country especially "in these trying times."

>>16848265
These chinks keep spamming my email
They are fantastic for truely obscure books

>>16848358
kek, you're probably going to get that last book sooner or later as well.

I've bought 150 or so books in the time of COVID. I've ordered them around the world (US, Poland, Italy, Japan etc) from big vendors like BookDepo to independent sellers. Despite living in a tiny European country I've yet to lose a single book.
You'll be just fine, bud.

>>16848265
Everything I ordered arrived in reasonable times. Two books did get lost on the way, but their customer service was really nice and gave me full refund. One book showed traces of being wet at some point, it was even the only one packaged in plastic bag in addition to usual envelope, but the quality wasn't ruined that much, so I said nothing. Not like it was some fancy book anyway.

>Very good condition
>Arrives ex library

FUCK

>>16851380
Kek.

>>16852029
>150
Fucking hell. That's a lot.

>>16848265
I only bought books here even before COVID, they are pretty cheap and reliable. Probably bought more than 100 books from them. Once they send me wrong one but I got right one for free. They take about 2 weeks to deliver to my slav part of eu but I usually order new books when I have a few left to read

>>16851380
based retard

>>16851380
They send them all time. It's only like 10-20% too so not a big loss unless you're ordering lots of books at once.

>>16848265
Ordered The Iliad and The Odyssey

They arrived later than they promised, but not much later so i'm satisfied. But i'm guessing it varies from book to book and country to country

>>16848339
Just get them off eBay fag, worldofbooks is god tier

>>16848339
Oh wait are u yank?

>>16852029
>150

But how many have you read

A lot depends on your national postal service I think. Belgium's is bad for a first world country, they say 10% of the parcels from black friday to Christmas won't be delivered and you'll have to come get them yourself. It's made me hesitant to order stuff online.

>>16856979
>Belgium's is bad for a first world country, they say 10%
oh you'll have to walk 20 miles, poor little thing

>>16856979
You first world basedaboys disgust me

>>16857377
*söyboys

>>16848265
ordered a couple books (art book and a novel) arrived after about 2 weeks which is normal when ordering from Australia

nothing unusual

>>16848265
If you buy any sort of lesser popular books from them what happens is they print it on demand for you, this can be a negative because I don't feel like the paper they use is that good. Also because they ship their books in cardboard, you're going to have a bad time if it gets exposed to rain anywhere along the way. Though how much of an issue that is depends on how good your local post service is.

Also Book Depository is owned by Amazon for anyone who didn't know.

>>16848358
Based lazy intern

>>16848358
Same, I ordered some books and they didn't show up on the days they were supposed to. Weeks went by. I emailed them about it and they refunded me. A week later, all the books were delivered. Got something like $80 worth of books for free

why wouldn't you just buy used on ebay for $3?

>>16858905
That explains so much. I've read such varying reviews (dreadful service or amazing service) and the weird trend where some complained about the quality of the print. I always wondered why they had such niche titles. Thanks, I don't think I'll be buying any less known titles from them. Also, why do they have such weird small or random discounts, 46%, 3%, 11%, so on and so forth.

>>16848265
I've ordered from UK to Australia, came within the month and without any damage.

>>16859093
Ebay doesn't have the books I'm interested in.

>>16858905
Also AbeBooks and all the other bookstores you can choose from to buy a book from Goodreads, unsurprisingly itself owned by Amazon. Anti monolopy proceedings when?

I used to buy all my books from a site called booksplease.
For years basically every book was much cheaper than anywhere else, but recently they jacked up the prices on everything and it's one of the most expensive.

I bought Anti-Oedipus from there a while ago and it came with some cum-like substance on the spine.

>>16848265
ordered a book in march. after 4 weeks i asked them what was wrong since i didnt get any info on the book's status, they told me it was hard to come buy. after another three weeks of no actualizations i cancelled my order and ordered the same book on blackwells. received it from there 10 days later.

>>16856979
>cut staff over years while signing increasing contracts for package delivery
>guys, we're not getting around delivering all the package
the communist manifesto just writes itself

>>16859478
They probably run some sort of automated price-robot. It's quite common.

>>16858905
>>16859927
>everything owned by amazon
well fuck me, I ordered a used copy of "postmodernism" by fredric jameson off of some dude on abebooks thinking I'm helping a dude out. Fuck that stupid parasite pos bezos. suck my fucking cock baldie