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11381054 No.11381054 [Reply] [Original]

FYI: NYRB is having a huge 1-day sale. Buy 5 books and get 50% off

>> No.11381082

In how many hours does it end?

>> No.11381109

>>11381054
ty

>> No.11381122

I got a 30 book backlog. Guess i wont get meme tier books.

>> No.11381215

it's too bad books are so fucking expensive. i just can't get into reading pdfs.

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>> No.11381220

>>11381122
this

>> No.11381225

Can someone link?

>> No.11381275

Piss off, shill. That's not even a good deal when 50% off is still higher than used prices.

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11381279

I wish that a certain someone could have saved NYC.

>> No.11381283

>>11381275
I want to live where you live.

>> No.11381379

>>11381283
Xe probably lives in Amerikkka. In Aus, all the used bookstores are horribly priced... and I know for a fact they go to charity op-shops early in the morn, clearing it of all the good shit for a few dollars each, then selling it for like 20-30 dollaridoos.

Sometimes AbeBooks is cheapest but the lowest is about $10 because of shipping. Best thing to do is go to a charity shop and hope some old dead christian had some good literature.

>> No.11381390

>>11381379
I live in Canberra and two used bookstores I go to are about $3.50 to $5 for literature, hardcover non-fiction might be $10-30 though depending on the book, though I've picked up really good quality books that go for 50-60 new for 10 so can't really complain

>> No.11381405

>>11381390
>I live in Canberra
I feel bad for you, unless you're there for ANU.

>> No.11381412

>>11381405
ANU sucks dick, I'm here for the weather

>> No.11381419
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11381419

>>11381390
>I live in Canberra

>> No.11381430

>>11381390
Where are these places please?

>> No.11381434

>>11381390
>>11381379
>tfw Ameriburgler and there's a bookstore under my Uni library open two days a week where softcovers go for a dollar and hardcovers for two
>mfw the book lady put a new spine on a 100 year old book on German literature with colored illustration for TWO DOLLARS
Lmao, lauging at you guys, shit is so cash. They've got obscure stuff out the wazzoo but they were updating their catalogue and getting rid of a lot of old stuff putting up shit tier twilight instead last time I was there

>> No.11381576

Link?

>> No.11381584

>>11381215
get a kindle paperwhite and load with .mobi books. its much better than pdf, its basically the same as a real book.

>> No.11381588

>>11381430
Canty's Bookshop and Barry's Bookshop in Fyshwick

>> No.11381607
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11381607

I think I'll just stick with thriftbooks

>> No.11381661

>>11381588
Too far but thanks

>> No.11381663

>>11381661
Where you from?

>> No.11381666

>>11381434
Local library bookstores are ridiculously cheap since they’re not for profit. Love ‘em.

>> No.11381670

>>11381405
It’s not that bad, pretty good in fact if you like the outdoors.

>> No.11381672
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>>11381588
>Fyshwick
you old dog you

>> No.11381752

>>11381672
I don't live in Fyshwick

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11381791

should I do it my dudes?

>> No.11381795

>>11381791
ye

>> No.11381852

>>11381607
The best offer on thriftbooks for Berlin Alexanderplatz used is more expensive than that, and you haven't even let the 5+ discount take effect

>> No.11381855

>>11381795
I did it my dude

>> No.11381981

>$25.00 for shipping one item to europe
>$8.00 extra for each added item
Wow rude

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11382034

Thanks anon, I saved like $60 and was already planning on buying this second copy of Stoner to gift to someone

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11382045

>NYRB

>> No.11382051

stoner is literally 30 yeear old boomer: the book

>> No.11382063

Nice. Got a 6 pack for 60 bucks.

>> No.11382064

>>11382051
>i haven't read the book at all

>> No.11382071

>>11381054
>No Kierkegaard
>No Dostoyevsky
Must be NYRB.

>> No.11382074

>$38.93 for shipping

REEEE

>> No.11382091

>>11381379
Mods pls make he/she -> xe wordfilter

>> No.11382092

>>11382071
Don’t the focus on publishing a little more obscure things?

>> No.11382108

>>11382092
Yeah but they do have some Turgenev and Balzac

>> No.11382154

do people hate the design of nybr or the books they publish themselves? if someone had different editions of the same books would it be fine?

>> No.11382179

>>11382154
They hate their popularity with hipsters.
There was some article shilling how aesthetic they looked on your bookshelf and that set some anons off. Then NYRB’s twitter twat made mock of ‘/lit/ bros’. That disgruntled a few anons too.
But for the most part we still like NYRB for publishing euro stuff that we probably wouldn’t get without them.

>> No.11382187

>>11382179
do people seriously still worry about hipsters?

>> No.11382195

>>11382187
Nah, there seems to be a lot of people on /lit/ who just want to make memes and shit on things that people like, whatever they are.

>> No.11382203

>>11382187
Oh you’re arachnophobic? That means you must want to fuck spiders.

>> No.11382213

>NYRB has a Raymond Queneau book

That was an unexpected treat. Cheers OP.

>> No.11382237

How often do they run sales like this? I’m interested in picking some up but with my backlog I’d rather wait. But if it’s only like a once a year thing....

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11382280

Sure why not. How did I do?

>> No.11382290

>>11381852
When does the discount take effect?

>> No.11382305

>>11382154

this pretty much >>11382179

NYRB publish out of print and obscure classics in high quality paper.

>> No.11382306

>>11382290
It calculates as you add to cart

>> No.11382311

>>11382305
so its good? why is it bad then? they hate people who like good stuff?

>> No.11382319

>buying books

>> No.11382333

>>11382311
The only thing worse than hipsters is mongs who keep asking the same question no matter how many times you explain the answer to them.

>> No.11382335

>>11382280
Do they have the other parts of The Divine Comedy? Pretty lame to have just Inferno desu

>> No.11382337

>>11382311
People are being contrarian because hipsters are insufferable bunch.

>> No.11382345
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>>11382306
I am not noticing a change in price?

>> No.11382351

>>11382345
I went back and checked the prices with the 6 books in cart compared to the original price and they were discounted

>> No.11382353

>>11382345
>Buy 5 books and get 50% off

>> No.11382354

>>11382335
I don't think so. Really I had a little trouble finding books I was interested in and haven't even read the inferno yet.

>> No.11382360

>>11382353
I should at least get 40% off for 4 books.

>> No.11382371

Any NYRB classics to avoid?

>> No.11382377

>>11382360
try updating the cart.
they really bite you with the shipping price though, I cancelled mine since it's cheaper to grab the same books from abe

>> No.11382427

>>11382371

I was pretty disappointed by The Three Christs of Ypsilanti. Very dry, not particularly compelling, even as a psychiatric case study.

>> No.11382435

This thread reminds me of how lucky I am. I used to go a lot to a public library nearby and they started holding a book-sale two days of the week of donated used books. They had a classics section with some actually pretty /lit/ stuff people donated, the prices were ridiculously cheap (50c for a softcover book, 1$ for a hardcover, sometimes if some dumb ho was there she’d knock it up to 2$ for a large hardcover book, seems like they just randomly spat out the prices, but whatever, it was fucking cheap). I found books like Moby Dick, Ulysses, The Scarlet Letter, Shakespeare’s complete plays in one collected book (!), Updike’s Rabbit novels, Dickens’s novels (Bleak House, A Tale of Two Cities), Plato’s Republic, Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying and Light in August, and a lot more over time. Pretty much built up my own comfy little library for dirt cheap.

tl;dr find used book sales at your local library or something

>> No.11382440

There aren't even 5 NYRB's worth reading desu.

>> No.11382448

>>11382435
>tfw never even heard of library sales in my country
I’m jelly

>> No.11382810

So many books, and yet so few good stories that haven't already been told.

>> No.11382847

>>11381054
I just went to a "Fill a bag for $5" event, I don't need any more book right now.

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11383226

Any recs on what else to get?

So far I've added these.

>> No.11383264

>>11382333
ok but i dont get it

>> No.11383313

>>11381054
damn, the folio-society sale drained all my money.

>> No.11383482

>>11381054
buy 10 books get 100% off

>> No.11383553

>>11381122
tpbp

>> No.11384039

>>11381752
but you visit it regularly if you know what im sayin ;)

>> No.11384044

>>11382371
To Each His Own bored the hell out of me. Apparently its some Italian social commentary but it just read like a really boring mafia story to me

>> No.11384048
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>>11381054
>>11381054
>>11381054
>>11381054
>>11381054

>> No.11384067

>>11382280
That version of anatomy of melancholy is at my bookstore for 90 cents

>> No.11384160

>>11384067
send it to me

>> No.11384176

>>11384160
Long gone by now brother. What do you like? If I see it for cheap I'll unironically send it to ya

>> No.11384179

>>11381663
I live in Acton

>> No.11384188

>>11384176
I went into a buying rampage the other day so I have quite enough to read for the rest of the year, but the only thing I couldn't find for cheap was that version of the anatomy of melancholy, thanks anyway.

>> No.11384267

>>11381217
patrician, God, genius

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11384316

Should I do it?

>> No.11384323

>>11384316
do you need to put in code to get the discount? All my books(6) are still at regular price?

>> No.11384355

>those rest of the world shipping rates

FUCK

>> No.11384377

>>11384316
no

>> No.11384455

Do they do any good non-fiction?

>> No.11384616

>>11384455
Anatomy of Melancholy
The Thirty Years War
Fermor's travel writing

>> No.11384626

>>11383226
you can get Virgin Soil as a free ebook from projectgutenberg

>> No.11384651

>>11384626
good looks, mate. thank you

>> No.11384661

>>11384626
yh i was about to buy but found it there first

>> No.11384677

>>11384316
If you have the money for it. sure go for it. I've read a couple from your list and really enjoyed them. Augustus is absolutely fantastic.

>> No.11384939

Fear
Butcher's Crossing
Augustus - Paperback
Hard Rain Falling
All for Nothing

$41.40 USD

How'd I do?

I have no time to read any of these desu

>> No.11384962

>>11384939
it not like they are going to disintegrate if you do not read them right away.

>> No.11385013
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11385013

Shall I?

>> No.11385062

>$75 USD shipping

>> No.11385101

>>11385062
Shipping is media mail cheap. I was gonna complain about that but...

>>11385013
I hear such mixed remarks on Kaputt and Warlock. Not sure what to think

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11385283

cool cool

>> No.11385287

>>11385283
is that dead souls even a good translation?

>> No.11385297

Is there a way to track the package?

>> No.11385299

>>11385287
I don't care enough about Gogol to check. It's NYRB and $8, so why not

>> No.11385304

What should be my fifth book?

Waverly
Stoner Hardcover
The Big Clock

>> No.11385317

>>11385299
why are you buying the book if you dont care

>> No.11385391

Should I choose media shipping if I live in New York?

>> No.11385399

Australians, its about $40 for shipping. Fuck that.

>> No.11385802

>>11384939
Hard Rain Falling is a pretty quick read.

>> No.11386000

Is this still going on? I cant find any menition of the sale online, someone help pls

>> No.11386022

>>11386000
No it was one day only. They usually have a winter sale and a summer sale. Sorry anon.

>> No.11386064

>>11386022
Oh.... ;_;

>> No.11386071

>>11381855
nice

>> No.11386085

>>11382305
>high quality paper.

Is it? Just looks like a clone of penguin/oxford classics quality.

>> No.11386089

>>11386085
Acid free paper. Which Penguin and Oxford don't do in their regular editions.

>> No.11386094

>>11385101
Thomas Pynchon likes Warlock a lot.

We all know he's a patrician.

>> No.11386098

>>11386085
I'd gladly pay a 50% premium any day of the week for acid free paper

>> No.11386152

>>11384316
Hope you went through with it. Kolyma Tales has been a great read so far.

>> No.11386209

>>11382179
>we
Nice try shill. We are anonymous and we do not like your mom's boyfriend's shitty publisher.

>> No.11386352

>>11381054
soishit