Do you guys buy used books or prefer new ones?

[Anonymous No.13585243]

I buy a lot of used ones on the internet. Most of them look just like new. New I only get if it's impossible used or it's a good edition of a classic.

[Anonymous No.13585254]

The only people who buy new books are housewives buying nonfiction paperbacks recommended by their retard coworkers and rich spoiled little faggots mass-buying books for their college classes with daddy's credit card because they've never found it odd to spend $700 every three to four months on books that could be acquired for free or for a fifth the price in a different edition. The former should be ignored and the latter should be ruthlessly exterminated.

[Anonymous No.13585256]

Yeah I literally ONLY buy used.

I still end up paying like around $200 for three books or something. I guess I have expensive taste. :3

[Anonymous No.13585343]

Used if I can find one in good condition. New only if it's a nice looking HARD COVER.

[Anonymous No.13585365]

>>13585243
Library.
If I do buy a book, I give it away to a friend or acquaintance who I think will benefit from it.

[Anonymous No.13585384]

I check around the charity shops in my area and pick up a few books when something catches my eye. I only buy new if there’s no chance of getting it second hand.

Found Thus Spake Zarathustra and Ecce Homo in charity shops in last 2 days, spent £5 total.

[Anonymous No.13585388]

I love retarded annotations in used books

[Anonymous No.13585392]

>>13585243
It really depends on the price difference. I'll take used if the savings feels like a significant percentage. Sometimes though, I'll see books on Amazon that are only $1 or $2 more for a new copy, and buy that.

[Anonymous No.13585397]

>>13585388
someone wrote their grocery shopping list in true crime book i have. still cracks me up.

[Anonymous No.13585399]

>>13585388
me too, or odd things you sometimes find inside: phone numbers, grocery lists, etc

[Anonymous No.13585412]

>>13585397
I once read a copy of Walter Ong's Orality and Literacy where some girl had annotated it with little airhead quips and comments like "That must be why my bf doesn't communicate LOL!"

[Anonymous No.13585505]

>>13585388
What the fuck? This looks like it was written by an old lady

[Anonymous No.13585564]

I buy them new, if I can afford them. Otherwise I buy them used.

[Anonymous No.13585667]

Used, mainly. New only if it's a rare and recent edition.
I don't have the money and used books are great anyways, why should I buy new books?

[Anonymous No.13585698]

>>13585667
They last longer.

[Anonymous No.13585929]

Bought used for years. Then started getting a near-allergic reaction to used books. My sinuses empty out, my eyes hurt and I start getting a headache. I can read them if I wear a surgical mask, but it's annoying, so I bought a kindle and just pirate books now.
I also read new books and lightly used books that are given to me. I think the used bookstore near me may actually be a haven for mold and it just spread across all my shelves, idk, but it sucks.

[Anonymous No.13585942]

>>13585254
U good?

[Anonymous No.13585948]

>>13585243
All the books I've bought used have always been cheap as fuck.
There used to be a second hand book shop in my local high street and they'd sell used hardbacks at the equivalent of 80 cents.
Only buy used if it's a specific book of limited quantity and you're unsure on whether you could get it easily years later.

[Anonymous No.13585954]

Buy new if it's available; used for out of print. Price difference isn't much here usually.

[Anonymous No.13585980]

Used, because I want to read the book and I don't care if it falls apart after. Plus, $0.01 paperbacks on Amazon are pretty nice.

[Anonymous No.13585993]

>>13585243
Where to buy used books online?

[Anonymous No.13586015]

>>13585388
My favorite is my copy of Macbeth that has poems and witticisms written by a high school boy in the 1920s.

[Anonymous No.13586082]

>>13585993
Thriftbooks

[Anonymous No.13586300]

>>13585365
>Library
What is this meme? I never understood library posters before I moved. Turns out most libraries (Even university ones) are shit. I was amazed when my local library actually carried the classics.

[Anonymous No.13586389]

>>13585993
My favorite place is World of Books, a London-based site.

[Anonymous No.13587180]

>>13585388
I got a used copy of 1984 that was clearly some girl's high school copy. Packed full with dumbass surface level annotations that abruptly stopped about halfway through the book

[Anonymous No.13587288]

New. I've never seen an actual used goods shop. Buying online ends up being 6x as expensive.

[Anonymous No.13587289]

>>13585929
Books also release volatile organic compounds; they "degas" these irritating smells from their materials. I also cannot stand reading books and use libgen now because of this. The convenience is fantastic anyway. Moving without boxes of textbooks is great. I can own thousands of books abd read from my phone, laptop, or desktop. It is invaluable.

[Anonymous No.13587297]

>>13585243
I prefer old if they're in decent condition, mostly cause of the smell desu

[Anonymous No.13587402]

>>13585243
I buy almost all my books from thrift stores. I don’t find something every time, but it’s unbelievably satisfying to get a book I’ve been looking for in a beautiful, older, hardcover edition, for under $5. They’ll have that great used book smell too. Highly recommend it for anyone with the patience to accept not getting something every time.

[Anonymous No.13587591]

>>13587180
That's my favorite part of used books. Knowing that they tried so hard and got 2/3rds of the way through it but stopped.

[Anonymous No.13587656]

>>13585243
Depends. I mostly read public domain stuff so Its easy enough to pirate or find a cheap release of something somewhere.

[Anonymous No.13587933]

>>13585254
Candy-ass cheapskate motherfucker.

[Anonymous No.13587990]

used. cheaper, older versions = better artwork, they're also more bendy (since they're been opened a lot) so you're not straining your hand trying to keep the thing open

[Anonymous No.13588009]

>>13585254
>housewives
>coworkers
Kek

[Anonymous No.13588068]

My nearest city has the most amazing used book store that exists. The owner knows me and gives me extra discount on everything since I was a student.

Buying new books would be completely retarded.

[Anonymous No.13588443]

Mostly used ones as it's cheaper

[Anonymous No.13588485]

>>13585243
For me, it's local used bookstores and indigo.ca if I have a lil bit of money to burn. I usually use the former, or even thrift stores sometimes, and occasionally eBay. The large majority of my books I bought used.

[Anonymous No.13589560]

>>13585388
Baby hand

[Anonymous No.13589775]

>>13585993
bookfinder.com is a meta search engine that will find you the best price by currency and location criteria

there is no better

[Anonymous No.13589795]

Depends on how much money I happen to have, whether the edition is in print or not, or if the new edition has something over an older one which I'd want (better notes, better quality binding or paper, though the latter two only matter if it's some abysmally made toilet-paper mess that was made in the years after the fall of the iron curtain.)
Usually I buy used, simply because what I'm looking for isn't in print (small country, small market.), or holds nothing over a new edition. (And I want to save money.)

[Anonymous No.13589881]

Up until last month I got my books from a local Bücherschrank. Now I buy used ones online.