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Messages: Book sources - new, secondhand
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Oregon: Portland
Title Wave Used Bookstore (ex-library materials) has excellent used prices anyway--typically $0.25 for easy (young children's) books, $2.00 for most other fiction, and there's plenty more than just ficiton. But on April 2, 9a-6p, they're having a 55%-off sale.
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Leela4
13 years ago
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Nuremberg (Germany)
Oxfam, Dr.-Kurt-Schumacher-straße 16, 90402 Nuremberg. Tel 0911 2029510
A dozen shelves of secondhand books in German. Two shelves of varied books in English. Bought two gently read books at 2.50€s each, one wishlisted and already back in BM.
There is also a Red Cross charity shop: Rotes Kreuz, Sulzbacherstraße 42. U2 Rathenauplatz follow signs to Sulzbacher, charity shop half way up on right hand side. Didn't have time to check this one out.
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jacquie
13 years ago
1 comment
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Thrift Books .com
I came across this website... really not sure how... might have been from ordering used books via Amazon and this was one of my favorite. Anyway this is actually where a lot of my books have originally come from. Their books go from $3-$4 depending on the condition but since I usually read a book once I go for the cheapest. Anyway again... what is really great is that if you order $10 or more shipping is free. Now $10 is a unheard of amount since most other ordering websites are like $50 or more. Also I loved the about us... read it once and it is good to go. So check out any books you REALLY want but cannot find on Book Mooch and then you can recycle them here. Unfortunately Thrift Books are not accepting 'donations' so they suggested libraries or other charities. Okay... this is my first message and I hope it helps someone out. OOOOO... forgot to say that Thrift Books has almost any book even out of print books sometimes. I used them when I was reading an author and my library did not have the ebook-version or the book version. I was really surprised that I got some of the books. I hope to be listing them soon.
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Andrea
6 years ago
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| (6 years ago) | Glad you did good.
As mentioned I use this site a lot before I found Book Mooch.
Enjoy!
TTFN... Andrea
- Andrea |
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Worcester (UK) - 3 free books
A shop in the Lychgate shopping centre, Cathedral side, is giving away books to save them from landfill or pulp. You can go in and take three books free of charge. The shop is staffed by volunteers, but please make a donation to offset the running costs (heating and electricity).
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jacquie
11 years ago
2 comments
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| (13 years ago) | Amnesty is accepting donations for this book sale at the salle des élections on Thursday 10th or Friday 11th.
- jacquie | | (13 years ago) | This would be a great excuse to pop over to France. Sadly, I will be in German Jail that weekend, studying for my test. :-)
- Robin | | (13 years ago) | ... forgot to mention that the last time I attended this there were books in English and German as well as French, and I bought two big bags of books for a very reasonable (by French standards) donation.
- jacquie |
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Oxfam, Bristol (near the university)
What a find! Among my purchases, two near-new Gordon Ramsay hardback cookbooks for £5 each and a couple of paperbacks that had been on my wishlist for a while, also in excellent condition.
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jacquie
13 years ago
no comments
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Opening comment
If we need more books in BM, then this raises the question of "where from"?
If you're in an area where real (bricks and mortar) bookshops still exist, or where there are good secondhand bookshops, please would you list them here. Any publicity for them has to be good as they're often struggling to survive in the internet age. Any BM member finding themselves in that area may also want to visit bookshops.
Although BM receives a commission from books purchased through Amazon, there are other online sources of books, and these may in fact be cheaper, especially if you're mooching books in a country where the language of the country isn't the language in which you're reading. BM wouldn't get the commission, but if you were able to buy two books that go into circulation, it would increase the number of books available.
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jacquie
13 years ago
5 comments
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| (13 years ago) | I hope you all already know about BookFinder.com. It lists new and used books from tens of thousands of booksellers all over the world, including alibris and some of Amazon's (I'm not sure why they don't all show up, but I've noticed that they don't). BookFinder has a wonderful adjustable search form that'll let you choose all sort of variants like cheapest copies first, hardback or paperback only, search just by ISBN, search in languages other than English. Try it - you'll like it. And then any you don't want to keep, you can put in your BM inventory.
- Margaret H. | | (13 years ago) | I use sometimes alibris.co.uk. They represent a whole lot of second-hand bookshops in the UK and send abroad. You do have to pay for delivery but some of the books are really cheap. I believe they are also in the US.
- Mosca | | (13 years ago) | The Strand bookshop, E. 14th Street, NY, NY, USA
The Salvation Army second-hand shops anywhere in the U.S.A.(and probably in Canada)
Other thrift shops. Where is Great Falls MT?
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in countries where the language is other than English,second hard books in English are rare to non-existent, at least this is true, in my experincen of Austria, Turkey, Italy, Finland, Sweden, Greece, Jordan, Kwnya & Tanzania.
Here in Israel, the previously owned books are the discarded "best-sellers" from airport bookshops, and tired Disneyfied outgrown children's books. New books (prevously owned only by the publishers and the distributors) cost the earth, and the selection is skewed.
Someone recommended Abe Books, but it turns out they are also owned by obnoxious, ubiquitous Amazon.
So, for me, it's Book Mooch forever (or as long as it lasts).
- NinaBryna | | (13 years ago) | Lengthy quote about second-hand bookshops follows! I've just discovered that I'm a pilgrim.
"But either you intriniscally understand the attraction of searching for hidden treasure amongst rows of dusty shelves or you don't; it's a passion, bordering on a spiritual illness, which cannot be explained to the unafflicted.
Tue, they're not for the faint of heart. Wild and chaotic, capricious and frustrating, there are certain physical laws that govern second-hand bookshops and, like gravity, they're pretty much non-negotiable. Paperback editions of D H Lawrence must consitute no less than 55 per cent of all stock in any shop. Natural law also dictates that the remaining 45 per cent consists of at least two shelves' worth of literary criticism on Paradise Lost, and there should always be an entire room in the basement devoted to military history which, by sheer coincidence, will be haunted by a man in his seventies. ...
Modern booksellers can't really compete with these eccentric charms. They keep regular hours, have central heating and are staffed by freshly scrubbed young people in black tee-shirts. They're devoid both of basement rooms and fallen Greek heroes in smelly tweeds. You'll find no dogs or cats curled up next to ancient space heaters like familiars nor the intoxicating smell of mould and mildew that could emanate equally from the unevenly stacked volumes or from the owner himself. People visi Waterstone's and leave. But second-hand bookshops have pilgrims. The words 'out of print' are a call to arms for those who seek a Holy Grail made of paper and ink."
Posted without permission from Elegance by Kathleen Tessaro.
- jacquie | | (13 years ago) | I live in Great Falls MT and there is an amazing little shop down on Central Ave. It is called the Paperback Jungle. She is a second hand book shop that carges very low rates for exchanging books, and half the cover price for a book when you are not exchanging. She also has some Dollar bins filled with some great reads! Her address is:
721 Central Ave
Great Falls, MT 59401
406-727-6350
You would have to call her for shop hours. I BELIEVE that she will ship books out also, however I have searched her online and it does not appear that she ships via the internet nor can you search her inventory online. But she is very knowledgable about her inventory and can tell you just about every book she has!
- Jen |
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