Price of books

Discussion in 'Art & Culture' started by fishtail, May 6, 2007.

  1. fishtail Registered Senior Member

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    There is so much i want to read but ,the price of books holds me back, is there an online substitute?
     
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  3. original sine Registered Senior Member

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    Try Amazon.com, there are a lot of books sold for $0.01 + shipping costs.
     
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  5. Absane Rocket Surgeon Valued Senior Member

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    I bought a $100 chemistry book for $6 on Amazon.
     
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  7. Oli Heute der Enteteich... Registered Senior Member

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    Try Project Guttenberg - downloadable .txt files of stuff that's out of copyright. You can search by author, title, subject matter or genre.
    The only problem is reading them in the bath or bed.

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    There's also pdfs available from places like eDonkey (peer-to-peer file sharing) but most (all?) of those are bootlegged, and the vast majority of the books they have are way way into woowoo territory.
    Charity shops, especially in university towns are great, publisher's clearance shops (The Works, Publishers' Book Clearance etc), second-hand (but not antique) book shops also are worth looking at.
     
  8. Oniw17 ascetic, sage, diogenes, bum? Valued Senior Member

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    Try a library. There are a lot of books you can read online, but it takes forever to find them. Try here
     
  9. §outh§tar is feeling caustic Registered Senior Member

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    I get ebooks a lot of times. Also try the library
     
  10. Xerxes asdfghjkl Valued Senior Member

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    If it's a popular book, search for it on eMule. Chances are you can find it in PDF format.

    Otherwise, I recommend either going to the library or purchasing it used:
    http://abebooks.com
     
  11. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    I buy my books at used book stores anywhere from $1 to $10
     
  12. fishtail Registered Senior Member

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    Thanks guys, so many good ideas, so you are useful after all

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  13. Beryl WWAD What Would Athelwulf Do? Registered Senior Member

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    Is it important to you to own the books? If not, there are always libraries...

    You could also go with a used bookstore.
     
  14. redarmy11 Registered Senior Member

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    Why not just wait for the DVD to come out?
     
  15. Lord Hillyer Banned Banned

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    all books are priceless.

    -draqon
     

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