/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.2735691]

I just got suckered into Barnes&Noble's Buy 2 get 1 Free deal. Am I a bad person, /lit/?

[Anonymous No.2735692]

i'm a girl, btw

[Anonymous No.2735700]

>>2735692
lol @ this meme

[Anonymous No.2735705]

>>2735700
>Laughing out loud
>"at"
>Meme
>>>/reddit/

[Anonymous No.2735717]

>>2735691
Nope, just weak. Don't worry. Just keep your standards impossibly high as far as cheepness goes and soon, 2 for 1 will seem like a joke.

[Standard Toaster !TOASTIsW76 No.2735720]

For the B&N Classics? I enjoyed that deal.
I bought Moby Dick, Anna Karenina, The Brother Karamazov, The Possessed, The Idiot, and Notes from the Underground.
2 of those 6 were free, and the other 4 were 30% off because of my employee discount.
Quite the good deal.

[Anonymous No.2735749]

>>2735720
Well, I don't work there, but I'm moving soon and am afraid I won't be able to find a good library or bookstore where I'm going. So I made a small stockpile that should last me until I get settled in and find my way around. I bought a couple doorstoppers and another. My small haul was Moby Dick, Herodotus' Histories, and Notes from Underground.

[Anonymous No.2735752]

>>2735749
Where are you moving?

[Anonymous No.2735762]

>>2735752
2 weeks, but I am also starting a new job and won't have nearly as much time to sit around and read for leisure.

[Anonymous No.2735765]

>>2735762
Oh, fuck, you said where. Madison, WI.

[Mad Scientist Hououin Kyouma !!RBaVX6t0twu No.2735791]

They do that deal all the time here in the UK.

Last time I entered a book shop that did it I bought Leviathan, Paine's works and The Prince. That was a good day. They usually do this deal on some pretty decent literature.

[Anonymous No.2735815]

Buy online, bookstores (that sell new) rip you off.

bookdepository.com - Free worldwide shipping and cheap as fuck prices, you can't beat them. Afaik they're owned by Amazon, so they're quick, too.

[Anonymous No.2735827]

>Not buying books used
Have fun wasting money for basically the exact same thing

[Anonymous No.2735845]

>>2735827
>exact same thing

Not always. If you're reading literature that was translated from another language, you can end up missing some things if you have a dodgy edition with bad translators.

[Anonymous No.2735857]

>>2735765
You're definitely going to be able to find something there. I live in Green Bay, which is smaller, and there are still around a dozen bookstores.

[Anonymous No.2735867]

>>2735845
>Used vs Old
>Starts talking about translations
What.

[Anonymous No.2735872]

>>2735867
>New vs Old*

[Anonymous No.2735883]

Scotfag here, haven't bought a book in a standard retail store for a long time now. Regularly shop at this multi-media store owned by HMV called Fopp, which does books/films/music and all that. The book prices are great though, £2/£3 per book and the stock is often surprisingly good. Think they buy up surplus stock from other sellers for cheap and then sell it on, last time there I got;

Brave new World
Lolita
Do Androids dream of electric sheep
Generation A
and Dice Man for £11 total, all new copies.

[Anonymous No.2735893]

The alternate sellers on Amazon tend to be much cheaper than any deal

[Anonymous No.2735903]

>tfw you get a vintage war edition of For Whom the Bell Tolls in mint condition for 50 cents.
>tfw when you never pay more than half price for anything.

I am so awesome.