Where do buys your books?

[Anonymous No.21471896]

Big name stores? Indie book stores? Used book stores? Online?

[Anonymous No.21471899]

>>21471896
amazon because buying at independent stores is populist retardation for chuds and reactionaries.

[Anonymous No.21471901]

>>21471896
Wherever I find the book I want at a good price. There is absolutely no point in being loyal to a book store.

[Anonymous No.21471926]

>>21471896
Typically B&N in person, because half the time when I order a book on Amazon there's weird smudgy residue on it. I do like smaller, independent stores too like Vroman's in Pasadena or Powell's in Portland. I've bought a handful of books from both. Also, I'd prefer not to be in the hands of Big Tech for every possible thing in life. Voting with my wallet and paying 0–5% more to support local businesses (and often get a less damaged product) is worth it to me. I won't scold anybody for not doing that though.

[Anonymous No.21471934]

Folio Society is my go to

[Anonymous No.21471937]

>>21471934
nice books, shitty content

[Anonymous No.21471964]

thriftbooks all my books have been cheap, usually <$10, and in great condition. not to mention free shipping on orders $10+ and also pretty solid rewards program where if you vaguely read regularly you'll frequently qualify for free books

[Anonymous No.21471971]

>>21471896
Bookdepository/Amazon/Abebooks, Mercari, Yahoo Auctions, Bookoff, some second hand independent stores (Kitazawa, Subun-so, etc), Kinokuniya during their annual sales when I can get pretty much any book for 440 yen.

[Anonymous No.21471984]

>>21471934
All those poor elephants...

[Anonymous No.21472000]

>>21471896
Piracy where practicable, amazon otherwise.

[Anonymous No.21472017]

>>21471896
I have enough books for now

[Anonymous No.21472037]

libgen

[Anonymous No.21472075]

>>21471896
Mostly Amazon. I recently began to buy English books, so I have almost no idea about where to go buy them but I will try Bookdepository as well because I have read that I can get some discount by using VPN. Also I found a used bookseller site called BetterWorldBooks and liked that I can buy books without shipping fees but I wonder if there are other better sites. For books written in my first language, I just visit a local book store and a second hand store such as Bookoff, where I sometimes find some deals.

[Anonymous No.21472092]

Libgen when i can’t find it on Amazon cheap….
Oh I’m kidding, haven’t bought a single book for 5 years

[Anonymous No.21472093]

>mfw have a place right down the street from work where all books are a dollar
>mfw 10 minutes away from there is a a warehouse where all books are a buck and a quarter
>mfw there’s also a local used book store and two chains
>mfw own endless absurd amounts of heat at next to no cost

[Anonymous No.21472115]

>>21471984

[Anonymous No.21472127]

>>21471896
Amazon or B&N.

[Anonymous No.21472317]

>>21471926
>Typically B&N in person, because half the time when I order a book on Amazon there's weird smudgy residue on it.
this + edge damage from being thrown in a box four sizes too large with 2 little air pillows
i just figure there's extra greasy mexicans working the fulfillment center

[Anonymous No.21472349]

>>21471896
Amazon mostly, they are way better than the other online book shops in my country which takes 10 days to deliver a book

[Anonymous No.21472477]

>>21471934
Imagine paying fifty bucks for planet of the apes

[Anonymous No.21472498]

Local used bookstore for hardcovers. Barnes and Noble for paperbacks. Amazon if neither has the particular book I want or the prices are absurdly high.

[Anonymous No.21472510]

>>21471896
From amazon

[Anonymous No.21472573]

>>21471896
Booktopia is pretty good here for Australia, I’ll check it like once a month and there will usually be a deal or two for books on my Wishlist

[Anonymous No.21472625]

>>21471896
>Salvation Army used bookstore (50p a book, £1 for hardcovers, mostly classics and pulps)
>oxfam used books and records (more expensive, huge range of stuff right from obscure reference books to comics)

I also shoplift from Waterstones once in a while when I feel like stealing a bunch of “graphic novels” (god I hate that phrase) because crime is fucking based

[Anonymous No.21474073]

>>21471934
oh my funkos
what a marvelous collection

[Anonymous No.21474345]

>>21471896
Imperium press

[Anonymous No.21474379]

>>21471896
Amazon. I'm not about to go on some farfetched adventure to a random bookstore 10 miles away to find out if they have the obscure memoirs of a 19th century Prussian statesman when I know all they have is the latest atrocious best sellers. Nor am I inclined to order from some shoddy book seller site with second rate and unreliable delivery services that takes 5 times longer to arrive if it ever does.
Amazon has built the most efficient and effective commercial service on the market and solves a problem that I value being solved satisfactorily. It has earned its market share in this regard. It's not like it's some predatory hedge fund that makes all its money through asset stripping . The reasoning may be socially darwinian but it is also sound.

[Anonymous No.21474477]

alibris is the best site to go off of, shipping is the standard $3.99-4.99, but pretty good books costing $1. Fairly expensive books bought used, and while there’s some underlining every so often, i’d rather read the books and abuse them over time…then think $20 on a paperback that’s shiny from amazon should somehow be maintained and preserved.

[Anonymous No.21475615]

>>21471896
I steal them digitally and then send it to Kindle.

[Anonymous No.21475619]

>>21471896
Thriftbooks

[Anonymous No.21475620]

>>21471934
reading Dracula right now, is the FS copy worth getting? It looks beautiful on the site & on your stack there. I think it would run me almost $150 leaf bucks though.

[Anonymous No.21475657]

>>21471896
Amazon. Most of the stuff I've been reading isn't carried by b&n,and I have yet to find a used book store around here

[Anonymous No.21475997]

>>21471934
What a retard. Kill yourself