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For those of you that live outside of the big markets - USA, UK, Germany, etc... how do you buy books?
I want to buy cheaper physical copies, but my shipping fees from Amazon or other book stores are too high to justify it. And locally the selection is really bad, mostly USSR era books that I have either read, or don't want to read. And of course 99% of it is in my native language, with bad translations.

tl;dr third worlders of /lit/, where do you buy books from?

>> No.9151114

>>9151092
Are you the same Russian guy who was begging for people to send him books recently?

Post your town either way

>> No.9151123

>>9151114
No, I am not.
I'm from Bulgaria, in a city near the capital.
If I buy new books, I can afford maybe 1-2 per month.
I want to buy second hand, but second hand books here are mostly trash, and almost entirely in bulgarian, with bad translations and often bad prints.

>> No.9151137

>>9151092
polack here, i of buyings physical books in local bookstores or through the net, for ebooks i usually go with #bookz
i read translations if the book i'm looking for wasn't originally written in english, french or russian

>> No.9151143

I don't get these threads. Do they not have libraries in your countries? Or do you just really like owning your own copies?

>> No.9151153

>>9151123
Is there a post office near you?

Post the address and I'll send some books anonymously for you to pick up under a pseudonym,

>> No.9151161

>>9151092
>>9151123
Don't you have any webside where you can buy second hand books? Like aberbooks or something national.

Can't you buy from other countries close to Bulgaria?

Also, how expensive is shipping? I have seen 1-4$ from UK or Germany to Spain.

>> No.9151173

>>9151153
We had a library in my town from 1999 to 2007 or something, with a small and conservative selection of books, the stuff you'd be asked to read from school.
Library collections are often old, and often include the classics and some best sellers, but you can't find everything you want.

>>9151153
I am too paranoid to accept such a deal, too many things could go wrong if you wanted to cause me trouble.
I appreciate the gesture, I am just not willing to try this with a 4chan poster.

>>9151161
I've ordered from the german Amazon and from some triftbooks website or some such, and both times the shipping cost considerably more than the books themselves.
And there are some second hand websites, but they have the problem I described, its only bulgarian books, and mostly old, and mostly conservative selections.

>> No.9151191

>>9151143
you had never been to a third world shithole library m8
Old textbooks, harry potter and assorted crap is everything you will find

>> No.9151196

A B E B O O K S Y O U D U N C E

>> No.9151221

>>9151173
>I've ordered from the german Amazon and from some triftbooks website or some such, and both times the shipping cost considerably more than the books themselves.
On the other hand the cost for the book sometimes ends up being almost zero. I've bought books for 0.01$ on amazon.

Still feels good to live in country where almost everything is available either in translation or original language despite a a population of <10 million.

>> No.9151245

>>9151191
I live in a small city (30k pop) in a corrupt post-communist shithole in southeast Europe and my local library has literally thousands of books, from all the timeless classics to popular mainstream genre fiction literature. I discovered ASOIAF by digging through the bookshelves there, and that was in like 2003.

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9151305

Mexifag here. I live in Guadalajara so it's the second biggest city of the country.
There's a lot of regular & used bookstores around the city, even more so downtown.

Some time ago I came across one where the owner is a chill old man from Oakland; he sells mostly books in English fairly cheap and has a great selection. Never paid more than ~10-15usd for a rare copy or even 1st editions

>> No.9151315

>>9151245
>my local library has literally thousands of books, from all the timeless classics
>picks out ASOIAF
Disgusting faggot.

>> No.9151366

>>9151315
I was like thirteen years old, dude.

>> No.9151404

>>9151092
https://www.bookdepository.com/
Free worldwide shipping

>> No.9151506

I don't know how you guys call it, but here in Hueland we've got sebos. It's basically a bookshop that sells only used books. I've found plenty of classics there for cheap.

Other than that, there's also the public libraries.

>> No.9151524

>>9151245
>post-communist
You may not believe it but communists are culture friendly so your library not being shit is not really surprising.

>> No.9151532

AbeBooks
BetterWorldBooks

>> No.9151967

I live in Poland and I have never had any problems with getting books other than that new books are usually quit expensive.
In the library there is a lot of Polish classics and classics from other countries, they don't really have lots of new books though.
I usually get my books from the Internet, straight from the publisher, or buy them used on the Internet, there is also a small local anarchist bookshop and they have some great books too.

I mostly read stuff in English so I just use ebooks.