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What up faggots.
What are your favorite local bookstores?
And I don't want to hear about trendy shit from fucks living in NYC. I want to hear about where rural and suburbian niggers get their book on.
I frequent Re-Reads in Crofton Maryland. Shit is dope. I always wondered how they make a profit, seeing as how the place is a mess and the lazy cunts at the desk never seem to move an inch. Turns out the place is basically just a warehouse for the unseen owners online business. Makes sense, but still a great place to chill and look at all them fat stacks of books. Just wish the hours weren't so dumb.

>> No.6974183

>>6974173
i go to barnes and noble cuz im not a hipster faggot

>> No.6974189

Portland Oregon, so Powells as a general "everything" store. They have a coffee shop that I use for writing and smiling at qts. Goodwill is also amazing, you'll never find what you're looking for but you'll see a lot of stuff you otherwise wouldn't expose yourself to.

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>>6974173
Barnes and Noble and Amazon tbh.

You see, I'm not some hipster cock sucking faggot who enjoys to go to "tiny" and 'secluded" bookstores. I know what you faggots really do at those things, every month you schedule a time and date at which you will congregate and such each other's cocks. Yes, cocks. The thing between your leg, faggot.

If anyone reading this every goes to a bookstore besides Amazon or Barnes and Noble, they ought to kill themselves.

>> No.6974208

>>6974202
cute temper tantrum tbh

>> No.6974222

>>6974183
full pleb
get rid of the trip too

>> No.6974238

why the fuck would i shop at some overpriced rent seeking "local bookstore" when I could order from a publicly owned company like Amazon? Amazon is owned by any American who wants to buy shares. Your local bookstore is owned by some small time capitalist who takes all your book money and puts it right in his asshole kid's trustfund. You all claim to be socialists so why don't you "own the means" by buying some amazon shares and saying fuck the peti-bourgeois shithead who runs the local rip-off shop.

>> No.6974323

>>6974238
Dude paper backs at Re-Reads are like $3. Way less pricey than amazon. Used bookstores are the shit you don't even know.

>> No.6974336

Thriftbooks.com because I can get used books cheap af and still in decent condition

>> No.6974342

Captain's Bookshelf - Asheville, NC

nothing compares. Solid, used books for like 10 bucks. Mostly hardcover, no shitty books in the entire place, meaning that the store is restricted to revered authors and is devoid of CVS bestsellers or any contemporary wank. Really has anything you could want and has multiple Shelves merely for signed/first editions of stuff like Hemingway, DeLillo, Heller, Steinbeck, etc. Also first edition To The Lighthouse, Gravitys Raimbow, Neuromancer, JR, Lolita.
Entire sections devoted to Greeks, poetry, and biographies of prominent writers

Easily the most patrician place ive ever been

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6974349

Come to Portland and shop at Powell's

It takes up a whole city block and they probably have whatever you're looking for used and cheaper than what you'd pay elsewhere

do it faggot

>> No.6974354

>>6974202
You forgot to tip your fedora gentlesir.

>> No.6974356

>>6974173
There's a used book store near me that's cool because they have a cat that lives inside. They've become pricier over the years and sell more new books now that the local barnes and noble and borders have shut down. My mom used to trade in pounds of books for store credit when i was a kid and buy me books from there.

There's also a spot near me that has tons of books for under $5. I've gotten hardcovers for $2 there. It's in the richer area and run by wealthy retired grandmas who just volunteer, and i think all the books are donations. The selection is very random but I've gotten some nice pickups there.

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>not just buying used online

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There's this bookstore in Denton on the square, and they're totally the shit. Their selection is huge and great, their prices are even better. All the employees there are super cool. The place was an opera house built back in 1901, and has three storeys and a lot of little, hidden rooms to explore. There's also legends of the place being haunted.

>> No.6974393

>>6974377
Fuck nigger even used be like $6 after shipping. Y'all some dumb shits if you don't visit your locals for them $2-4 prices.

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>>6974173
OP, ever been to Second Story books in Rockville MD? It's the warehouse of a popular DC used book store. Loads of books (pic related), and while they price everything as if it were sold in their DC shop, everything in the MD warehouse is 40% off, simply because it's a fucking warehouse in the middle of nowhere.

>> No.6974407

>>6974399
I haven't! That sounds dope as shit. You been to Daedalus?

>> No.6974431

>>6974407
Nope, where is it? I'm actually in VA, just outside the southwest portion of 495, so I have to plan visiting Maryland rather than just popping by real quick.

>> No.6974436

>>6974431
how the fuck do you fags live in places that aren't NYC or SF? How are you going to make any money?

>> No.6974444

>>6974436
>bitching at me when I live 20 minutes outside of the nation's capital

>> No.6974499

>>6974399
Not OP but I live in Rockville and hadn't heard of Second Story before so I just looked up where it was. I lived in an apartment literally on the other side of the street for a year and never went in. Ridiculous.

>> No.6974502

For anyone living in Victoria:

Melbourne
>red wheelbarrow in Brunswick East, sick books, cool owner, cool gallery and a dog that's usually in the store
>Alice's bookshop, Carlton North, nice owners, cheaper classics, big poetry, drama and philosophy sections

Ballarat
>known world on Sturt street, pretty pleb but has a piano u can play plus lots of Enid blyton
>pot of gold, ground floor of the mechanics institute, this place is the bomb, they've given me books for $2 because the guy couldn't be bothered opening them up to check the price , pretty good selection of lit

Clunes
>brother u best be playin if u want advice on where to get yo books in clunes, god damn book stores everywhere u step

All u plebs who reckon secondhand stores are 2indie4u, u realise secondhand is way cheaper and better selection, right? If you want a writer currently out of print, or want a popular book at like 1/5th of the retail price, used book stores are th shit

>> No.6974514

>>6974499
Honestly I'm not surprised; it looks like an industrial building, and it's like 100 feet back from the road.

Definitely worth checking out if you still live nearby.

>> No.6974533

>>6974514
I remember seeing the couple signs they had posted for used books all the time too. I'm still pretty close so I'll try to find some time to get down there, maybe this weekend.

>> No.6974599

Macleod's Books is good if you're ever in Vancouver BC, which you probably won't be.