where to buy books

[Anonymous No.22248462]

where do you guys buy your books because i always end up out an arm and a leg after buying 10 ish books and im starting to feel im doing something wrong here

[Anonymous No.22248465]

Edward mckays

[Anonymous No.22248467]

>>22248462
Zlibrary

[Anonymous No.22248483]

>>22248462
used book bookstores (duh?)

[Anonymous No.22248487]

>>22248462
>he buys his books

ahahahahahahahahaha

[Anonymous No.22248497]

>>22248462
abebooks
thriftbooks
only buy brand new if you want to support a living author
buying new books from dead authors only supports translators and publishers

[Anonymous No.22248500]

>>22248462
>>22248497
also just get books from the library if you can

[Anonymous No.22248505]

>>22248500
>go to library
>smelly homeless people at every computer, table, desk, chair etc

[Anonymous No.22248515]

>>22248505
then dont go to the computers dummy, the homeless are only in the lounge areas.
if some piss ridden schmucks is all it takes for you to not get some books, you are ngmi.
also most libraries let you borrow (and rip) ebooks/audiobooks.

[Anonymous No.22248517]

>>22248505
>walking back from library
>nigger starts walking towards you
>"hey! HEY!"
>run
>drop my book
>come back for it hours later with my pocketknife
>it's gone

[Anonymous No.22248521]

>>22248515
At my library if there is a chair there is a homeless person in it.

[Anonymous No.22248526]

>>22248462
I continuously look around use bookstores and buy stuff from the list I have. No used store is going to have everything you ever want so it helps to keep a rotating list you can keep an eye out for.

Powell's and Thriftbooks if I really want something so I order it online. Fuck Amazon.

[Anonymous No.22248528]

>>22248462
Usually, Half Price Books. Otherwise, it's used and online. On the rare occasion I buy a book new, there's an independent bookstore about 25 minutes away that I don't mind the drive to (or I pay $5 shipping if I don't have another reason to head over that way).
We actually have a lot of nice used bookstores in the area. Perks of being a bigger city without being a big city.

>>22248505
Are they on the shelves? Grab your books and take them home, dingus.

[Anonymous No.22248532]

>>22248521
why the fuck are you going to the chairs? get book, check out, go home, bang wife, read without piss raping your nostrils, return book when done, repeat

[Anonymous No.22248536]

>>22248462
You can walk into a barnes and noble with a tote bag, take what you want and leave, nobody will stop you. I've mentioned this before in other threads. I stole all my b&n classics, nobody's ever in that section

[Anonymous No.22248539]

>>22248532
>>22248528
>>22248515
>public spaces are decaying and you're not allowed to notice it
i'm tired boss

[Anonymous No.22248541]

>>22248462
Anna's Archive.

[Anonymous No.22248546]

>>22248465
I too shop at McKay's Used Books, CDs, Movies and More! If I see you in the literature aisle, I'll call you a nigger.

[Anonymous No.22248556]

>>22248539
you can notice it, just man up instead of letting icky sticky smells dictate where you can and cannot go.
go home them yourself if you care so much ;)

[Anonymous No.22248562]

>>22248487
printing out pdfs is fine but real books are nice

[Anonymous No.22248563]

>>22248556
>go home them yourself
i'll give them a new home... 6 feet under

[Anonymous No.22248586]

>>22248546
Keep an eye out for me bro

[Anonymous No.22248591]

>>22248532
The chairs are between the aisles retard. You’re forced to come face to face with the stinky beasts.

[Anonymous No.22248597]

>>22248591
Stop browsing the manga and porn mag section then

[Anonymous No.22248600]

possibly related thread, my experience
>>22248320
the money side of these places absolutely confuses me

[Anonymous No.22248601]

>>22248591
>>22248556

[Anonymous No.22248602]

>>22248597
Bro the homeless are in every nook and cranny of the library. It might as well be their home base.

[Anonymous No.22248615]

>>22248539
That's not what I said.

[Anonymous No.22248621]

>>22248615
Don't care.

[Anonymous No.22248622]

>>22248615
Not only did you say it, you look like this

[Anonymous No.22248631]

>>22248621
>>22248622
No! Nooooo!!!!

[Anonymous No.22248634]

>>22248517
>nigger looks in my direction
>make eye contact
>nigger walks over to me
>yell STOP NOW
>shoot nigger in the head

[Anonymous No.22248669]

>>22248634
many such cases

[Anonymous No.22248671]

>>22248462
Half Price Bookstore
Thriftbooks

[Anonymous No.22248675]

>>22248634
>cops show up
>you're exonerated for self defense
>bystanders start clapping
>nigger's cute octaroon daughter saw it all happen, she comes up and slips you her number

[Anonymous No.22248694]

I go to charity shops maybe once a month and just buy everything I find that I'm interested in, I buy most of my books this way and I have a library of about 400 books now
This is the most rewarding way to buy books IMO although I would guess that on average I'm buying 1-2 books per visit, sometimes I buy 10 books if I'm lucky
I go to used book stores less often and will only buy something if it's something I really want since the prices are like 5 times as much as they are at charity shops
I buy new books on Amazon
Ebay and Abebooks are for books I search up but sometimes I find good deals for books I wasn't looking for

[Anonymous No.22248696]

>>22248517
>>22248634
I went to the library this morning, and there was a black guy circling this big empty help desk in the middle of a room separating the adult fiction and non-fiction
>making laps around the desk
>I can kind of hear him talking to himself
>hits the assistance bell each time he passes it, sometimes once, sometimes multiple times
>the only thing I could make out was him saying "This is - this is the... this... this is the last... this is the last - the last black Jeopardy!" before he rings the bell like 10 times
>later, pass by the area again and he's talking to a librarian about some kids "cursing," and that, "they should go home if they're going to do that."
He seemed nice.

[Anonymous No.22248722]

>>22248696
>"This is - this is the... this... this is the last... this is the last - the last black Jeopardy!"
lmao what

[Anonymous No.22248725]

>>22248696
>"This is - this is the... this... this is the last... this is the last - the last black Jeopardy!"

[Anonymous No.22248747]

>>22248562
oh that isnt what I meant you girly little faggot

[Anonymous No.22248756]

>>22248696
>I went to the library this morning
Get a job

[Anonymous No.22248772]

>>22248747
in nature i would kill you

[Anonymous No.22248792]

>cheap paperbacks for leisurely reading
Used bookstore.
>nice hardcovers to perch on the shelf
Shit I'd be lucky if I could afford ten really high quality books in a single year.

[Anonymous No.22248805]

>>22248772
You are wrong

[Anonymous No.22248808]

amazon

[Anonymous No.22248821]

>>22248792
>nice hardcovers to perch on the shelf
Salvation Army exists for a reason you dumb yuppie fuck.

[Anonymous No.22248822]

>>22248462
>Google Maps
>Bookstores in my town
>Go to the used bookstores
There you go, OP.

[Anonymous No.22248823]

>>22248756
Took my son to story time. Seethe.

[Anonymous No.22248825]

>>22248462
AbeBooks. Bookstores are too expensive. But most of what I read is from libgen. I go to Barnes and Nobles to relax and drink coffee.

[Anonymous No.22248833]

>>22248462
Used bookstores. Ebay. Thriftbooks. Abebooks.

[Anonymous No.22248844]

>>22248515
>the homeless are only in the lounge areas.
Good incentive to post this gem from a recent OP

[Anonymous No.22248850]

>>22248844
I like the part of homelessness where society created them by being endless dicks, and they encourage the negative behavior further by simply increasing the dickness.

[Anonymous No.22248854]

>>22248844
I used to work at a library and the sheer amount of sex pervs that visited that bitch was insane.

[Anonymous No.22248882]

>>22248850
>not giving you free things that every normal person has to slave away to provide is "being endless dicks"
demonrat

[Anonymous No.22248898]

>>22248882
Scarcity mentality is stockholm syndrome and it enables perfectly good people to live their whole lives with such negativity that from birth they were seemingly destined to be homeless and once this is achieved the threat of scarcity is fully realized.

A marginal percentage of the human race does not hold up to this mental terrorism, and they become addicts, astranged from their families, and end up on the street. You may think a person is a psychotic dick and so they should just fuck off and die, but this threat is precisely what caused them to become that way.

When it comes to negative stimuli, most people can strive to be constructive to prevent it from happening again, other people react negatively to negative stimuli. All you will do is make that person worse by refusing to be unconditonally compassionate. They are under the effects of severe torture.

[Anonymous No.22248902]

>>22248844
That guy is this pepe.

[Anonymous No.22248942]

Any other books like this one?

[Anonymous No.22249099]

>>22248515
>then dont go to the computers dummy, the homeless are only in the lounge areas.
lmao this retard doesn't know how smell works
Also, crackheads wander around
>if some piss ridden schmucks is all it takes for you to not get some books, you are ngmi.
They don't, I just order mine and keep forever cause I'm not a poorfag

[Anonymous No.22249104]

>>22248556
I'd rather leave bags of fentanyl laced with rat poison and powdered glass around them, it's a more permanent solution

[Anonymous No.22249112]

>>22249099
>cause I'm not a poorfag
you're far closer to a homeless guy in terms of wealth than you are to a rich man. why do americans think of themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires?

[Anonymous No.22249115]

>>22248898
>unconditonally compassionate
There is no compassion in nature. There is no reason to make excuses for - and to support - mentally ill freaks, degenerates, and any other bargain bin so-called human that can't hack it on his own

[Anonymous No.22249123]

>>22249115
>muh unnatural
there's no computers, toilets, grocery stores, doctors, or AC in nature either, don't see you jettisoning any of those anytime soon

[Anonymous No.22249126]

>>22249112
I'm not an amerimutt.
>you're far closer to a homeless guy in terms of wealth than you are to a rich man.
This is such a tired cliche
Yes, my net worth isn't in the millions or billions. I don't make that much money off of arcane procedures, derivatives and so on.
But I have everything I need, and then some. In absolute terms, yes my net worth is closer to a heroin-addicted vagrant than to that of Evelyn de Rothschild.
But it doesn't matter, since I am so far removed from that sort of worthless existence that lifestyles cannot be compared regardless

[Anonymous No.22249128]

>>22249115
go live in nature instead of shitting up the internet, faggot

[Anonymous No.22249132]

>>22249123
>you take advantage of the benefits of scientific advancements, this means that you must give money to drug-addicted vagrants and mentally ill people
Kek!

[Anonymous No.22249135]

>>22249128
I do live in nature, trannie

[Anonymous No.22249144]

>>22249135
uh huh. whatever feeds your innawoods delusion, ESL tard.

[Anonymous No.22249171]

>>22248462
NEVER use FishPond. I'm still waiting for a preorder from 4 MONTHS ago (book formally released 3 months ago and is widely available) and they've delayed it twice becuase "lol distribution issues pwease wait". This isn't a fucking $5 literal who book either, it's $180 worth that I'm being told to sit on because their retarded arses are too stupid to figure out what to do. Anyway thanks for reading my TedTalk.

[Anonymous No.22249176]

>>22249144
Vous dites toujours "ESL" comme si ce sera une insulte d'apprendre en premiere une vraie langue mdr

[Anonymous No.22249180]

>>22249176
>real language
>french
oui oui baguette

[Anonymous No.22249183]

>>22249132
>I don't give money to homeless people because compassion is unnatural
>what about all these other things you do that are unnatural, you should stop doing them too
>incoherent screeching
don't know what I expected from someone who buys the retarded "nature is le good" meme

[Anonymous No.22249186]

>>22249126
>I am so far removed from that sort of worthless existence
you are so much closer to the homeless than you are to wealth, and yet you hate the homeless and not the wealthy. false consciousness is a powerful drug

[Anonymous No.22249202]

>>22249183
He got btfo’d

[Anonymous No.22249236]

>>22249180
>>22249202
sneed anglophones
>>22249183
first of all, you said "unconditionally compassionate", not "compassionate". Caring for those close to you is natural, caring for some dumb faggot who became an alcoholic or a junkie of his own volition is not.
>>22249186
How exactly did you gather that I like rich oligarchs? Because I don't like them either. In the meantime, oligarchs aren't shitting on the sidewalks, , harassing random people, and leaving heroin needles where children pay

[Anonymous No.22249302]

>>22249236
>natural is just what I like and don't like doing
still haven't addressed my specific point, which is Why give a shit what's natural or not?

[Anonymous No.22249311]

>>22249302
also, I'm not >>22248898. multiple people are disagreeing with you

[Anonymous No.22249742]

>>22248902
Words of wisdom

[Anonymous No.22249769]

>>22248825
I used to use abe years ago but the shipping prices are ridiculous. (I'm in Aus) it's $75 aud to ship a $6 book. The same book, new, on Amazon is $20 with shipping.

[Anonymous No.22249774]

>>22249115
We have ample scientific and theological evidence to suggest that unconditional love is not only possible but quite beneficial. It is necessary for the human race if we wish to continue the species. Stop trying to hold us back just because you're swimming in negativity.

[Anonymous No.22249947]

>>22249774
hey faggot i asked for bookstore recs and i get that you love niggers so much but can you please stop coaling up my replies

[Anonymous No.22250010]

>>22248462
I guess it depends on country and region, but I've found that a lot of people are selling books for cheap on second hand market apps.

[Anonymous No.22250330]

>>22248497
>>22248694
>>22248825
>>22248833
>abebooks
Nah, last time I dealt with them I had to email them like a dozen times to get properly refunded on a book that was damaged because the seller shipped it in a plastic bag with zero padding, which is unfortunately all too common these days.

[Anonymous No.22250378]

>>22248821
We don't have any scam cults operating in my area.

[Anonymous No.22250385]

>>22250378
Fucking your mother in the ass last night felt like a scam desu

[Anonymous No.22250419]

>>22249132
Bruh I don’t think pumping money is the solution but you aren’t even following logically from your asserted premises. The whole point is you’re championing nature but still deviate from nature when it’s convenient for you. You know what whatever you’re arguing disingenuously anyway. Just be glad you aren’t homeless anon. Still I don’t think communism/socialism works but have some fucking compassion, lest you effectively forfeit any worthiness of receiving compassion yourself

[Anonymous No.22250475]

>>22249302
Because being in tune with nature makes your soul more in tune with higher powers
>>22249774
there is no human race, there are several human races
>>22249947
old bookstores, online book selling platforms
>>22250419
I've never been shown an ounce of compassion when I needed it.
And no, I'm not arguing in bad faith, I can live perfectly fine without toilets, the internet, and whatever else that guy said. All of these amenities he talked about, however, imply me paying to have access to them for myself. If the hobo wants them he can clean his act up, with all the resources there are today there is no reason to be homeless unless you want to drink and shoot dope all day

[Anonymous No.22251071]

If you look hard enough, there's probably a used bookstore in your area. If you can't find one, or it doesn't have what you're looking for,Thriftbooks is my go-to online bookstore. They have a wide selection of books for pretty cheap, although they ship over USPS so wait maybe a week for them to arrive.
If those options don't end up working for you, there's always the library, or piracy sites like Libgen.

[Anonymous No.22251080]

>>22248562
>he doesn't download PDFs, reformat them into print styling, and then bind them himself

[Anonymous No.22251958]

>>22251080
Potentially based...

[Anonymous No.22251970]

>>22248462
Amazon.

[Anonymous No.22252025]

>>22249947
Lmfao.
>>22250475
Of course. You should not limit conditionality to one type of human. Extend this to it's limits(there are none).

[Anonymous No.22252239]

>>22249774
>unconditional love
You live in a space that could easily house several homeless niggers. Why are you not showing them unconditional love right now and inviting them to share your house, your food and your internet access?

[Anonymous No.22252246]

>>22250475
>I'm not arguing in bad faith
You are.
>I can live perfectly fine without toilets, the internet, and whatever else that guy said.
Then if living unnaturally is so bad, why aren't you living without those things? Like >>22250419 said, you're just making exceptions for whatever you like doing. Also where do you have to pay to access a toilet lmao
>I've never been shown an ounce of compassion when I needed it
why neglect your fellow man just because bad things happened to you? it doesn't follow. you're essentially punishing someone for no reason

[Anonymous No.22252282]

>>22248462
Used. Thrift stores in upscale areas or adjacent to them.

[Anonymous No.22252738]

>>22252025
>You should not limit conditionality to one type of human. Extend this to its limits(there are none).

You should not limit alcohol consumption to one type of social gathering. Extend this to its limits(there are none).
>>22252246
>Why I am not living without those things? Because I got them for myself and I'm not a fan of auto-flagellation
>why neglect your fellow man just because bad things happened to you? it doesn't follow. you're essentially punishing someone for no reason
Listen redditnigger I am not punishing anyone. I am just ignoring them, as long as they don't personally attack me. I am not my brother's keeper

[Anonymous No.22252775]

>>22252738
if someone cries out for help, and you're able to help them, you don't help them, you're punishing them for the crime of being unfortunate. what a sad lonely way to live in the world.
>Why I am not living without those things? Because I got them for myself and I'm not a fan of auto-flagellation
so you admit that your entire system is self-contradictory and not actually based on any coherent ideas just whatever you feel is right. you seem wise and reasonable

[Anonymous No.22252781]

>>22248462
Old books I get from resellers, hard to get books from the past few years however.

[Anonymous No.22252787]

>>22248850
Unvital reasoning. this sort of mentality creates the people who externalize things and will generally have miserable existences.
>>22249774
Its actually not. Give love to those things you authentically find worth in rather than as a simple fact of their mere existence. Otherwise you are being fake and gay and removed from what love actually entails. The actual honest appreciation of something in its pros and cons instead of multiple levels of abstracts diluting whatever nugget of true love that spawned the line of thought.

[Anonymous No.22252791]

>>22252738
>You should not limit conditionality to one type of human. Extend this to its limits(there are none).
>You should not limit alcohol consumption to one type of social gathering. Extend this to its limits(there are none).
These aren't the same thing at all.

[Anonymous No.22252802]

>>22252775
not him, but you are projecting your own pessimism and making problems for yourself to find.
You can give someone the benifit of the doubt, but still have your priorities straight that can be crossed. Thats not sad, thats just being frank.
Its sad you see things in this narrow and honestly pretensious way.

[Anonymous No.22252810]

>>22252791
It actually is. if x and y are distinct things within a catagory, you should not, and in fact, dont by definition, treat them in the same way.

[Anonymous No.22252825]

>>22252802
>pretensious
lol
>but you are projecting your own pessimism and making problems for yourself to find
I just hope that if I'm ever homeless, my fellow man reaches down and helps me. Man's inhumanity to man has never sat right with me. I've never gotten used to it and I've never been able to swallow it.

[Anonymous No.22252835]

>>22252810
>these aren't the same thing
>they actually are
>so you don't by definition treat them the same way
What? Make that make sense for me, anon. We're talking about the conditions of extending empathy/aid to someone else. I don't see how making it about alcohol furthers anything.

[Anonymous No.22252864]

>>22252825
> I just hope that if I'm ever homeless, my fellow man reaches down and helps me
yah, if you give me a reason to. kind smile and good will and all. I give to those who I think are worth it, not as a matter of just “being”. What you are describing isnt inhumanity, its simply not having a proactive reason to.
>>22252835
What? not all situations are the same so you dont treat them in the same way, think its kinda self explanitory. you dont chug down a whole bottle of wisky at work a wild party and your sons birth party. Same principle, you dont treat every person in the same way regardless of context.

[Anonymous No.22252892]

>>22252864
you're not understanding me. I don't see the connection between treating people the same way and chugging down a bottle of whiskey at work, other than to you they're things you "shouldn't do." that seems like a pretty weak connection between the two. they don't seem to have much else in common at all, they're nonequivalent. it's like saying that a fire truck and an apple are the same thing because they're both red

[Anonymous No.22252922]

>>22249176
coucou

[Anonymous No.22253493]

>>22252775
>punishing them
No, I would be punishing them if they cry out and I go spin-kick them in the head.
Choosing to not get involved is not a punishment for them
>>22252791
>n-no not like that
kek
>>22252922
Bonjour frerot

[Anonymous No.22253530]

>>22248521
>At my library if there is a chair there is a homeless person in it.
sand? in my vagina?

[Anonymous No.22253535]

>>22248882
ah, a compassionate conservative. give me best dubya

[Anonymous No.22253539]

>>22249104
>I'd rather leave bags of fentanyl laced with rat poison and powdered glass around them
knock yourself out, coward

[Anonymous No.22253578]

>>22253535
>my labor is stolen at gunpoint to feed a parasitic class of non-workers
>class of non-workers increases in number
>even more of my labor is stolen at gunpoint
>cycle repeats until the state fails and the laborers kill the parasite class
so this is the famed bourgeoisie compassion

[Anonymous No.22253903]

>>22252892
is this an autism thing? its just an analogy for the basic principle of contextuality. You dont usually treat everyone in the same way regardless of context and you dont usually drink the same way regardless of context either. its a function of various factors rather than of broad singular categoricals. You can use the example of firetrucks and apples for all that it matters. despite them both being in the category of red, you dont usually eat firetrucks and use apples to fight fires. Or within apples themselves where you prefer one for baking and one for eating straight.
things might have similarities, but them being distinguishable implies a level of discernment as well.
I hope this is technical enough of an explanation for you.

[Anonymous No.22253942]

>>22253539
>I riffled through someones bag and took their laced drugs and died, so YOU are the coward.
lol

[Anonymous No.22254016]

>>22248462
I haven't found a book that cost more than $10 used...ever. And I buy a lot of old obscure stuff

[Anonymous No.22254317]

>>22249176
je t'aime, anon

[Anonymous No.22254578]

>>22248462
Z library. Who pays for books?

[Anonymous No.22254584]

Easy way to get free, brand new copies of books.

>Go to library
>Check out all their copies of a certain book
>Throw them away
>Go to front desk, report the books accidentally damaged
>Place hold on the book again
>New copy comes in. You get it first.
>Report it accidentally damaged.

[Anonymous No.22254587]

>>22254317
Je t'aime aussi, anon ou nonette <3

[Anonymous No.22254909]

>>22253903
the comparison makes no fucking sense because the two concepts are nonequivalent so any equivalency between the two is useless you fucking tard that’s what he’s saying. I don’t even care about what you’re talking about but I can’t believe you don’t get this

[Anonymous No.22255182]

>>22248462
From non-catholic/non-jesuit publishers.

[Anonymous No.22255225]

>Live near capital
>Go to the 4 2nd-hand bookstores
>It's the same price as on amazon
bros... anyone else have this experience? Seems like they are jacking up prices for tourists.

[Anonymous No.22255226]

>>22248467
It’s dead now. Fbi got to it

[Anonymous No.22255238]

>>22248517
You sound like the biggest bitch ass nigga I swear

[Anonymous No.22255240]

>>22248465
They feed your head

[Anonymous No.22255289]

>>22255226
lol
lmao even

jokes aside, if anyone's interested you can use Anna's Archive

[Anonymous No.22256036]

>>22254584
Quite possibly the single dumbest thing I've ever read. Well done.