books

xirokx · 11 May 2008 at 15:03

Hi,

I read a lot and cannot afford to constantly buy new books and my local library is crap..

So wondered if anyone knows of any cheap book websites?

Thanks

bushmins · 11 May 2008 at 15:07

If you search the net you can find a lot of free books, also a lot of ebooks. Ive downloaded lots of books for less than £2.

All depends on what you want to read.

xirokx · 11 May 2008 at 15:12

paul coelho books are brilliant equally I like Khaled Hossini and James Herbert..

For practical reasons I really prefer to have a physical book as opposed to a ebook ...

cheers

Maximum Triceratops · 11 May 2008 at 16:05

Goto any charity shop you like and buy books for 50p to £1.I do this every couple of months and save myself a small fortune as I get through about a book a week.

xirokx · 11 May 2008 at 16:05

ok found a well known online store I will not mention there name for obvious reasons, if anyone is interested I can let them know..

xirokx · 11 May 2008 at 16:10

Goto any charity shop you like and buy books for 50p to £1.I do this every couple of months and save myself a small fortune as I get through about a book a week

thanks for suggestion but I am particular about what I read

Dano · 11 May 2008 at 17:13

You do know that you can request books from the library so that even if the local one doesn't have them it will get them right?

xirokx · 11 May 2008 at 17:32

yeh my library takes upto 8 weeks and in some cases still doesnt find them...

thanks

Meridian · 11 May 2008 at 20:09

xirokx said:
thanks for suggestion but I am particular about what I read

Why? You are locking yourself out of at least 99.9% of what is worth reading, and I suspect that may be an under-estimate. Try something different. Anything.

M

Edinho · 11 May 2008 at 20:19

I find ebay pretty good, just watch out for the postage, then resell it.

Tony Williams · 12 May 2008 at 11:02

eBay is very good for books and is cheap. Another store (better IMO) like eBay that reminds you of a forest is real good, you can pick a lot up for <£2

Try a local book store as there isn't any posting involed so you might save money.

Pumpkinstew · 15 May 2008 at 13:35

Green Metropolis might be what you're looking for.

PardonTheWait · 15 May 2008 at 16:03

xirokx said:
thanks for suggestion but I am particular about what I read

That doesn't even make sense. Do you think you can only get crap books second hand? There's a couple of second hand bookshops local to me where I buy tons and tons of old sci-fi books, I also got a lot of Discworld books and such from them too. I've read pretty much all of them now so I buy them as they come out, but for older books, second hand bookshops are awesome. I go in there, spend about £20 and come out with about 15 books.

Werewolf · 15 May 2008 at 16:11

Mohinder said:
That doesn't even make sense. Do you think you can only get crap books second hand? There's a couple of second hand bookshops local to me where I buy tons and tons of old sci-fi books, I also got a lot of Discworld books and such from them too. I've read pretty much all of them now so I buy them as they come out, but for older books, second hand bookshops are awesome. I go in there, spend about £20 and come out with about 15 books.

Sounds a bit like me, there are about 5 charity shops within a few minutes of me so every now and then I do the rounds of them, more often than not I can come home with anything up to 10-15 books of varying ages.
They are great and you can (quite often) get some great bargains, not just rubbish

(a couple of weeks ago I picked up two very old Asimov books that I think have been oop for ages).