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Are Koobs like Hoobs?

Amazon, Otakars and Waterstones mostly. With the occasional Borders and Foyles visit.
 
I bought my last book from the library, it cost me $0. Once I'm done with it, I'll be returning it so that someone else can get it for $0 as well. It's a pretty cool concept.
 
Hey! Mort and I shop at the same place! We are bound to bump into each other eventually!

Seriously, I have four kids, a husband and a house, money for books for me just isn't there. On the rare ocaission I do shop for books, I get them from discount online book stores like Daedalus and Hamilton as gifts for other people, or used from Amazon for me and that is usually one time a year, Christmas. The bulk of what I read comes from the library.
 
Thanks for the intresting comments :)

Anyone else?
Also why do you guys shop at those places you listed what attracks you to the site/store?
 
I'm mostly attracted because it doesn't cost me anything, and because I can search for books on their web site and have them put on hold for me. When they arrive at the library, they let me know via e-mail that they're ready to be picked up. I wander around the library occasionally, but most of the time I just go in to pick up my items from the "held books" shelves.
 
I love my second hand bookstore. They're right next to the alternative cinema and they stay open late on movie nights so I can get all my culture in one fix :D Somehow they know only to carry books that will interest me and even new books are 20% off the cover price. They guy behind the counter is cute and flirts with me in a nerdy, intellectual way. What more could you ask for?

buddi
 
I'm afraid I'm too impatient for libraries. Ours is smallish and it could take weeks to get a new book in my hands. :eek: Unacceptable! Books are part of my monthly budget, much like food and electricity. :rolleyes: I do have some friends and we pool resources, though and then trade back and forth. I'm tactile, so I like to peruse bookshops like B&N, or Hastings and the like. I will do Amazon for pre-orders of new books not yet on the shelf, though.
 
Libraries are great but unfortunatley too small for me. I need some months to get through most of the books, which are interesting and the coming years I spend specifically looking for new books in the shelves. It's quiet frustrating to look for a good book for 1 hour or more and not find one. Furthermore there arn't a lot of english books (which I prefer) and most of the time you don't get hold of the new ones. There is a 1 Euro fee to order a book so that's not really a possibility (I know that's not really expensive but most of the time, they don't have the books I want at all).

I like buying books because then I can put them in my shelf and look at them all the time. LOL Amazon ist the only good bookshop around here (my opinion) and I can research books there. Every time I read a book from the library and I love it, I'm frustrated because I didn't buy it. :(
 
Well, first I'd like to say hello as this is my first post on these boards. As for where I purchase my books, I'm a huge fan of using ebay to get them, I can usually find them in nice condition for dirt cheap from ebay stores and I've yet to run into a rude or problem causing seller.
 
Mort said:
I'm mostly attracted because it doesn't cost me anything, and because I can search for books on their web site and have them put on hold for me. When they arrive at the library, they let me know via e-mail that they're ready to be picked up. I wander around the library occasionally, but most of the time I just go in to pick up my items from the "held books" shelves.
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Mort said it all. Even though my local library is small, they can get just about any book I want. If it is not in another branch in my area, they can get it from another system, even though it may take weeks. I am patient and I usually have several books to read and have yet to find myself waiting for a book to come in. I have in the past bought my books, only to end up donating them to the library. If I kept them, they would only take up space, I'm not going to read them again. I also prefer to spend any hobby money on my other hobbies, for things I have to buy and can't borrow for free.
 
Anywhere from Thrift Stores to Target to Walton's. I have an especially hard time leaving Target without a book. The last book I bought was at the grocery store. It jumped out in front of me and said buy me.
 
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