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Re: poll: what are your usual means of procuring books?
« Reply #25 on: October 04, 2009, 05:36:39 PM »
Where's the option for just stealing them? :-)

It depends for me on what the book is, how timely I need/want it, and whether or not I'll keep it.

I love places like Half-Price books (as mentioned by IassaFTots above) for finding oddball & overexposed books.   Especially if I don't need to read it RIGHT AWAY, like some people feel the need to.  And no offense to those who just have to read the current popular book.  If there's a popular book that I really want to read but not buy, the library is my first option.  I purchase several baseball reference/analysis books each February/March, and always keep them.  Usually via Amazon, or whoever has it cheapest.
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Re: poll: what are your usual means of procuring books?
« Reply #26 on: October 04, 2009, 05:51:11 PM »
Book store.
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Re: poll: what are your usual means of procuring books?
« Reply #27 on: October 04, 2009, 08:17:18 PM »
Sam's, Walmart, Target, Kmart and the grocery.

Usually buy paperback, unless I can't wait for the paperback.  :-)

Used to buy from the local used bookstore, but they moved into a highend property, raised their prices and lowered what they would give you for turn ins. I'm buying new ones at Sam's for almost what they charge for used.

Then I pass them around to friends.   :-)
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Re: poll: what are your usual means of procuring books?
« Reply #28 on: October 04, 2009, 10:02:56 PM »
Quote from: debk on October 04, 2009, 08:17:18 PM
Sam's, Walmart, Target, Kmart and the grocery.

Then I pass them around to friends.   :-)


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Re: poll: what are your usual means of procuring books?
« Reply #29 on: October 05, 2009, 04:19:18 AM »
Quote from: franksolich on October 04, 2009, 08:01:10 AM
Now, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.

I thought you were a young one, madam, maybe circa 30.

Perhaps you were a late child?

 :heart: :heart: :heart: What a charming young man you are Frank, how sweet of you.

I am not your typical Grandma, Frank, in fact I am now old enough to have shed the Vail of respectability or have any fear of "What will the neighbors think."

Age has its benefits, I now do things because I want to not as I am told to. I can now give in to impulse, when I wish I can go as I like to call it, HEAD HUNTING.

Just sit in the town square and ignore the "Don't talk to strangers" start up a conversation with anyone from punks to the elderly. [Mom goes bat crap when I ingage a street person in conversation.]

It is usually books that opens the door for meeting really unusual people.  In my area people read a great deal, pass the time away with a book under one arm and a dog at their feet.  It is funny as there are people of all ages that do the same as me, you watch them walk past someone with a book in hand and necks Crane to see the tittle.

People are wonderful you know, every one of us has an Eleanor Rigby deep within ourselves.

I call the library a few times a year to request the dates that books will be given away.
     I go down and seldom look at the tittle just fill up a couple of boxes, come home and unpack them to see what surprises I will find. 

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Re: poll: what are your usual means of procuring books?
« Reply #30 on: October 05, 2009, 06:09:42 AM »
I went with option 4 although I do tend to buy from Amazon most of the time.  When I visit my daughter I go to Edward MacKay Used Books and usually find several at great prices.  DVD's too.
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Re: poll: what are your usual means of procuring books?
« Reply #31 on: October 05, 2009, 07:13:59 AM »
Quote from: debk on October 04, 2009, 08:17:18 PM


Then I pass them around to friends.   :-)

I am so freaking anal about my books that I have a seriously hard time loaning them to others.  I have to have promises that they will treat them like priceless antiquities. :-)
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Re: poll: what are your usual means of procuring books?
« Reply #32 on: October 05, 2009, 07:22:30 AM »
Quote from: mamacags on October 05, 2009, 07:13:59 AM
I am so freaking anal about my books that I have a seriously hard time loaning them to others.  I have to have promises that they will treat them like priceless antiquities. :-)

I don't lend any books that I want to keep. I never get 'em back.
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Re: poll: what are your usual means of procuring books?
« Reply #33 on: October 05, 2009, 07:58:59 AM »
Quote from: whiffleball on October 05, 2009, 06:09:42 AM
I went with option 4 although I do tend to buy from Amazon most of the time.  When I visit my daughter I go to Edward MacKay Used Books and usually find several at great prices.  DVD's too.


You must be coming up to my neck of the woods.

MacKay's is the book store I was talking about that has raised their prices so much.....
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Re: poll: what are your usual means of procuring books?
« Reply #34 on: October 16, 2009, 02:28:43 PM »
At one time I, figuratively speaking, devoured paperback SF and Fantasy books. So much so that when I sold some back to a used book store, I cleared nearly $100, in the late 70's. I was, however, smart enough to keep the rare ones, namely anything by Clark Ashton Smith, which are now difficult to find.
Now I don't read nearly as much, but I do have all of Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series in first edition hardbound.
I think I kept Tower Books in business for awhile.
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Re: poll: what are your usual means of procuring books?
« Reply #35 on: October 16, 2009, 02:59:43 PM »
Two sources, generally - Amazon.com or when I want to walk out of the store with a book under my arm, Barnes & Noble.

Whether I buy paperback or hardcover depends on how badly I want to wait for the paperback and/or the author in question.

Mrs E and I have a lot of books, but it's manageable -- at least so far.
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Re: poll: what are your usual means of procuring books?
« Reply #36 on: October 16, 2009, 03:01:17 PM »
Quote from: Eupher on October 16, 2009, 02:59:43 PM
Two sources, generally - Amazon.com or when I want to walk out of the store with a book under my arm, Barnes & Noble.

Whether I buy paperback or hardcover depends on how badly I want to wait for the paperback and/or the author in question.

Mrs E and I have a lot of books, but it's manageable -- at least so far.


That's the way I am....if I can't find enough paperbacks to keep me happy...I head to Sam's for the hardback.
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Re: poll: what are your usual means of procuring books?
« Reply #37 on: October 18, 2009, 10:23:17 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on October 03, 2009, 06:19:13 PM
Where do you usually get your books?

I would say it's, typically evenly split between Amazon, Borders/Barnes and Nobles, and my local libraries quarterly sales.  I do try and pick up a few things here and there from the few small independent book stores in my area, and I absolutely adore visits to John King Used Books

That being said, I cherish my local library  :cheersmate:
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Re: poll: what are your usual means of procuring books?
« Reply #38 on: December 09, 2009, 08:57:08 PM »
Anywhere...library, loaners from friends, Barnes and Noble, lately, I get them from the Volunteer's office at the hospital as they sell hardcovers for $3 or $4 a piece...
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