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I usually go with trade paperbacks lately unless it is a new book that I just have to read. It seems to give me the best of both worlds. I get the better paper quality of a hardback, which is my biggest problem with the mass market paperbacks, without the high price and the bulkiness of a...

That's funny because there is only one store owned by a big chain around me that almost always has what I am looking for. On the other hand the small stores near me are limited for shelf space, so they mostly carry the more popular books.

Then we're on the same page here. Whoever does the best job deserves the business. I'm all for the little guy, but when they aren't willing to help me get what i need, I'm not going to support them.

Yeah, I'm just killing culture all over the place. If our culture involves a store that is full of romance novels and other pulp fiction as well as being disorganized with unhelpful people, then let it die. Trust me: the culture of the American South is far from in danger. Shopping at the...

I suppose I'm just the capitalist pig that gives my money to whoever does the job best regardless of size. I'm starting to think small bookstores are just some romanticized idea like quaint cafes in big cities. It's fun to think about being there, but good luck finding one.

I haven't found that to be true at all. There is a longer process to getting your book into one, but it's far from difficult or impossible.

I'm not sure how much of a role that plays now, when she is doing books by Faulkner and the like. Obviously money is changing hands there with the branded books, which I'm not too fond of now that they do books I'm actually interested in.

The problem with that for me is that I'm a browser. I like to roam through the shelves, and sometimes I'll see something and suddenly remember I had been meaning to buy it. If I had more of a plan regarding exactly what I was going to read next. I suppose the local stores would be good enough...

I might consider shopping at an independent bookstore, but the only ones I can think of near me suck. The best bookstore I have found near me (Birmingham, AL) is Books & Company, which I seem to remember is owned by Books-a-Million. I don't see why I should suffer not being able to find the...

The US version has just recently made another change that is really annoying me. All that information on the left in the UK version has now disappeared and been integrated into the main page. I suppose it really isn't that big of a deal except that I had grown accustomed to the side bar, so it...

I always use ticket stubs from movies or concerts.

I remember some of my friends loving Fahrenheit 451 when it was on our reading list. I have never actually read it, but obviously some students do find it interesting.

I think this idea is better than the Book Crossing thing. At least this way you will definitely know someone will end up with the books. Also, I tend to like the idea of mailing a package rather than randomly dropping a book off somewhere, where the book could easily end up in the trash.

I say read them in publishing order: 1) The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, 2) Prince Caspian, 3)The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, 4) The Silver Chair, 5) The Horse and His Boy, 6) The Magician's Nephew, and 7) The Last Battle Some people say reading them in chronological order instead will...