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Where do you guys buy your used books? I like going to thrift/charity shops myself.

>> No.19812838

>>19812815
Book Depository and Powell's

>> No.19812845
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>>19812815
I download them for free online

>> No.19812849

>>19812815
I never buy used books because who knows what the previous owner did with them. Personally I slap my penis to anything I sell just to troll the poorfags buying used stuff.

>> No.19812850

Only place I really have available is op shops and a local used book store, everywhere else is kind of awful
The local used book store is quite expensive too, a new penguin book will cost you $10 used
I'm so jealous of Americans with their online used book stores but even with the shipping being near the entire cost of the order sometimes it's worth it

>> No.19812855

>>19812815
i don't buy used books anymore. i have some self-respect now

>> No.19812863

>>19812849
i lick my finger before turning the page to taste the cock of the richfag who sold it 0.0

>> No.19812867

>>19812849
>Personally I slap my penis to anything I sell just to troll the poorfags buying used stuff.

Good thing your dick slap only effects 1 cubic millimeter of the stuff you resell, so it shouldn't be anything to worry about.

>> No.19812872

>>19812855
>i have some self-respect now

Says the man posting on 4chan.

>> No.19812873

>>19812815
Bookoff, Mercari, Yahoo Auctions and a couple of shops in Jimbocho (Kitazawa, Subun-so, etc).

>> No.19812880

I recently purchased The Castle by Kafka and inside a girl had scribbled all sorts of horrible annotations like "metaphor for God?", "Existential Horror", and "Is K. An Atheist?"
My fear is that when I die and my estate is distributed, my literary reputation; which will at that point be stellar, will simply plummet, and I will become the butt of many many highbrow and lowbrow jokes.
Should I throw the book away?

>> No.19812881

>>19812855
Used books are essential if you want to build an impressive shelf fast. Nothing says "parvenu tryhard" like a shelf full of pristine modern edition classics. Your Homer and Malory and Montaigne and Sterne should be old and battered as though you inherited them from your grandfather and have read and re-read them a dozen times over the past twenty years.

>> No.19812903

>>19812881
you're the one concerned with impressing others, friend

>> No.19813239

>>19812873
>Kitazawa, Subun-so
based fellow Tokyoite
Those two are my regular spots along with Tamura Shoten. There was another near Kitazawa but it closed for repairs before corina and never reopened.
Check out Infinity Books in Sumidaku as well, pretty good selection and cheap

>> No.19813247

>>19812880
Annotate her annotations, criticizingly.
Also yes, throw away and buy it in the original german

>> No.19813322

>>19813239
>Check out Infinity Books in Sumidaku as well
I went there last year, bought my first Kinky Friedman and a cop stopped me a few minutes later.

>> No.19813330

>>19812815
>I like going to thrift/charity shops myself.

They throw out all of the old books and obscure literature. They usually only stock best-sellers, self-help, cooking and common classics for college students. If you want a chance at the good stuff, you have to volunteer at the shop. It's a fun job.

>> No.19813360

>>19812880
>"Is K. An Atheist?"
Burn it

>> No.19813362

Used bookstores in a college town near me. There's a couple of very good ones with a huge variety

>> No.19813392

I used to like a used book store on the University of Pennsylvania campus but the place is crawling with Asians and who knows what kind of lethal chink viruses they will spring on the world next. So I only buy from Amazon now.

>> No.19813446

>>19812881
You do not need to destroy your book to read it

>> No.19813463

At avenida Corrientes or Plaza Italia.

>> No.19813471

>>19813463
¿Venden libros usados en Corrientes?

>> No.19813481

>>19812815
I don't buy used books. I pirate ebooks for the vast majority of what I read, and for certain books where I do want a physical copy, I buy a nice new high quality hardback.

>> No.19813499

>>19813471
Si, es una de las razones por la que es famosa, aparte de los teatros y pizzerias, si vas te recomiendo que no sea un fin de semana, ya que muchas cierran.

>> No.19813506

I don't. I'm in a very unliterary area so I'm sifting through a whole bunch of crime fiction, Oprah's book club/NYT best sellers and Obama biographies. The few times I've bought some online they either had a weird smell, were kind of yellowed or had stupid annotations. It's not a huge extravagance for me to buy 3-4 new books a month over used, I'd rather have nice things than someones tatty leftovers.

>> No.19813533

>>19813499
Pase un millón de veces por esa zona, tan solo no sabía que esas librerías vendían libros usados. Tenía la impresión que solo vendían libros nuevos.

>> No.19813569

>>19813533
Hay algunas que tienen cosas interesantes y otras no, es cuestion de ir con tiempo y buscar.

>> No.19813602

>>19812815
Friends of the Library, kinda hit or miss but I've gotten an almost complete set of "Great Books of the West" there

>> No.19813829

>>19812815
Used books are worse than piracy. That's literally a lost sale for the publisher, author, and everyone else involved. The only people who are making any money from you are the booksellers.

>> No.19813844

>>19813829
>implying the writer gets any money, especially if we're talking public domain classics

>> No.19813861

>>19812815
Church/library book sales

>> No.19813890

>>19812815
what's with women and romances? every woman i know only read those romantic fictions

>> No.19813898

>>19813829
>Used books are worse than piracy. That's literally a lost sale for the publisher, author, and everyone else involved.
so is piracy
https://rabbimanning.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Internet-and-Halacha-Part-2-Copyright-and-VPNs-1.pdf

> The only people who are making any money from you are the booksellers.
who keep the books in good condition and protected, real state isn't free anon, not are bookshelves

>> No.19813899

>>19812815
>precalc
/sci/bros....

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>>19812880
>The Castle by Kafka
Get rid of it and buy a collected Kafka instead.

>> No.19813919

>>19813907
>not in german

>> No.19813926

>>19812815
I left the whole harry potter series at a foodbank the other day and i was pleased that they went quick.

>> No.19813941

>>19813844
Sure, that's an exception.

>> No.19814550

>>19812849
>>19812863
Fucking kek

>> No.19814567

>>19812815
I usually just look up the nearest used book store in any city that I am in and take a look around. I find that the real fun of book shopping is finding those strange out of print gems for a few bucks.

>> No.19814599

>>19812881
That's a retarded sentiment. All those old used copies were new at some point. Do you really need someone else's hand-me-downs to make yourself look more impressive and well read? Not knocking owning used books, but there's nothing wrong with buying new and imparting your own wear and tear on them. Also:
>>19812903
>>19813446
What they said.

>> No.19814601

>>19812815
I like ebay desu. Our local charity shops aren't packing anything interesting. That said, my girlfriend got me some gems from the charity shops in the city.

>> No.19815470

betterworldbooks, thriftbooks, secondsale, goodwills and a local shop near the university

>> No.19815751

>>19812815
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>>19813829
>Used books are worse than piracy. That's literally a lost sale for the publisher, author, and everyone else involved
reading living authors that's pretty cringe buddy

>> No.19815913

>>19812815
We've got a pretty good selection at a shop on dickson in fayetteville, ar. All the thrift shops, what they call a "flea market" here are chock full of grocery store lit though, sucks

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>>19815913
agree

>> No.19815955

>>19813392
BASED

>> No.19815963

>>19815933
Mah nigga

>> No.19815977

There is a used book store about half an hour away that I go to regularly. I enjoy looking through the store more than actually buying things.

>> No.19815996

>>19812815
Am I pleb for turning my head to read titles?

>> No.19816003

>>19815913
>>19815933
these fags have a hardon for dicksons, my good bitch

>> No.19816032

>>19816003
Enjoying NWACC?

>> No.19816364

There's antique stores that sell used books. But it's mostly, if not exclusively fiction that was compulsory for high schoolers since WW2. I got around 20-30 hardback classics from there, but I think I've exhaused the good books.

>> No.19817385

>tfw annual state-wide library book sale is permanently shuttered because it cost them too much during covid
fucking battered
they're going to sell all the books on thriftbooks instead, probably for double the price as well

>> No.19817422

>>19812849
Kind of a turn-on desu

>> No.19817764

>>19812815
I'm lucky enough to have a used bookstore in my town. Though it doesn't really matter because I actually work at a bookstore and get a pretty good discount.

>> No.19817781

There are 8 decent thrift stores within easy driving distance of my house and I visit them all roughly once a month. My reading taste is broad enough that I don't really need to seek out specific works very often

>> No.19818409

>>19812815
Brits and Americans always talk about buying books at charity shops, but the books at charity shops near me don't go much beyond Fifty Shades of Grey or Dan Brown.

There's a few used bookstores nearby, but only one has a decent selection and turnover, so I visit that frequently. Other books I get through online auctions or occasionally through Abe or Biblio.

>> No.19818413

>>19812849
Word, anon, I like to pee in the kettle when I'm checking out of a hotel room

>> No.19818439

>>19818413
I have never used a hotel kettle because my dad told me people sometimes boil their underwear to clean it

>> No.19818621

>>19812815
mostly commercial resellers on the net, for really obscure or old books my local abebooks equivalent. used book shops i visited before mostly did not have what i wanted, but i'd still like to go again to browse for an hour or so once this covid farce is over

>> No.19818635

>>19812815
>buy used book online
>potentially full of writing and highlighter or falling apart (has happened to me many times)
>go to actual irl book store
>they don't have shit for actual books, just YA and genre shit
yeah I just buy new for the most part. usually if you buy a book published before WWII you can avoid the quality control issue because if the book has survived that long it was probably kept by someone who respected it, but for editions printed more recently you never know what piece of shit they're gonna mail you.

>> No.19818640

I buy mine new from Amazon because I live in the first world and the higher I can make my carbon footprint the better.

>> No.19818655

>>19818640
Everything you want is still in print?

>> No.19818666

If I'm forced to buy a second hand book for whatever reason I'll also buy a Harry Potter bookset from Amazon and throw it away just to balance things out.

>> No.19818956

>>19812815
Here in London, UK I buy from Ebay (or from an ebay sellers direct site eg WorldofBooks), Abe, Charity Shops, Judd Books. Amazon seem to have given up on price sensitive 2nd hand customers. Medimops was good until they bumped up their UK postage, they sell their stock cheaper on ebay now.

>> No.19818974

i recently learned you can find things on ebay for less than £2 with free postage. On abebooks cheapest is usually about £3 or thereabouts.

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>>19812867
how would it "effect" a volume and not a surface area?

>> No.19819226

I live in a hipster town with under 100,000 people that has two decent sized indie used bookstores. Also has a dvd rental store. It's pretty nice. Tradeoff is that everything is slightly more expensive than you'd like.

>> No.19819279

>>19812845
SpBp

>> No.19819550

>>19819197
>He doesn't cut holes in his books so he can fuck them with his microdick
ISHIGGYDIGGY

>> No.19820092

I have lived in several places. Here in LA I generally go to Skylight books. It's kind of too hipster but they have a nice selection of books in foreign languages.

The last bookstore in downtown has a similar issue, although it's bigger.

I used to live in the bay area before and in San jose they have this place called recycle bookstore. Really nice place, kinda messy but full of great gems and old books. City lights was cool to take dates there more than to buy books (it's where Ginsberg and the Beat generation people hanged around and published some of their major works).

When I used to live in Spain I would buy books in Libros Alcana in Madrid or any of the old bookstores in El Barrio de las Letras (and occasionally at Fnac or El Corte inglés)

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>>19812880
>which will at that point be stellar

>> No.19820474

>>19812880
Post an excerpt from the book you're working on

>> No.19820499

Used bookstore in my area, they have a pretty decent selection and sometimes sell new books for like 50% below list price