I'm curious to know if people still buy their books the old fashioned way, or go the Amazon route, or still wait for titles to arrive at the library, or some other futuristic way of acquiring books I haven't even heard of yet. So, how do YOU get your Literature?

Oh, that's cool. I didn't know places like that even existed--I guess I'm just jaded from the usual Salvation Army/Goodwill/etc selection.

honestly there are charity book shops..like oxfam book shop. they have all sectionss from philosophy to literature ...
where i live there are like 6 charity shops in one street...you find more that danielle steel there.

If by everything you mean everything by Danielle Steele/Tom Clancy/John Grisham/Dan Brown, sure.

charity shops.....you find everything if you look hard enough AND vvery cheap

I browse the book stores; pick up what looks good and read a couple of pages before I decide on the purchase. But there's also recommendations I take to consideration, whether off websites or friends

i actually still go and buy my books, usually at barnes and nobles or at school. I don't like to put my credit card info on the web lol

I usually go to Books-A-Million or I go to the library. It seems easier than anything else except for the late fees that come from the library lol.

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I just go through the used bookstores or Amazon. When I was living in Portland a while back I went to Powell's City of Books several times a week. It takes up an entire city block and has 3 or 4 stories. It's like a bibliophile's wet dream. <3

I've been to Powell's before and I loved it! However, I live in the middle of suburbia where our local library isn't that good...I get some stuff there but I prefer Amazon or our local Barnes and Noble (we don't have any independent bookstores around here either...well nothing close by). I'm also lucky that my parents have a huge collection of books, so I get a lot of reading material from them, too.

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Originally posted by SnstrMstr:
I'm curious to know if people still buy their books the old fashioned way, or go the Amazon route, or still wait for titles to arrive at the library, or some other futuristic way of acquiring books I haven't even heard of yet. So, how do YOU get your Literature?

I go the amazon route.. haha. .. It's just so much easier to find what your looking for and can get better desciptions about everything etc. ya know? going to the store is just a waste of time.I actually just bought a few books from there.. Wintergirls and The fairy Godmother academy. did you start another thread somewhere? you're SN looks familiar.

hey! yeah i did and you responded to that one.. not sure if you've seen that response yet though.. I basically said to check out fairygodmotheracademy.com you can read some of the book on there.. anyways how was wintergirls?

heyya! yeah thank you so much for the site! Has it always been Chapter 4 of the book of what you can read! Thank you so much! I love the music in the site too!

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Originally posted by SnstrMstr:
I'm curious to know if people still buy their books the old fashioned way, or go the Amazon route, or still wait for titles to arrive at the library, or some other futuristic way of acquiring books I haven't even heard of yet. So, how do YOU get your Literature?

I go the amazon route.. haha. .. It's just so much easier to find what your looking for and can get better desciptions about everything etc. ya know? going to the store is just a waste of time.I actually just bought a few books from there.. Wintergirls and The fairy Godmother academy. did you start another thread somewhere? you're SN looks familiar.

hey! yeah i did and you responded to that one.. not sure if you've seen that response yet though.. I basically said to check out fairygodmotheracademy.com you can read some of the book on there.. anyways how was wintergirls?

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Originally posted by SnstrMstr:
I'm curious to know if people still buy their books the old fashioned way, or go the Amazon route, or still wait for titles to arrive at the library, or some other futuristic way of acquiring books I haven't even heard of yet. So, how do YOU get your Literature?

I go the amazon route.. haha. .. It's just so much easier to find what your looking for and can get better desciptions about everything etc. ya know? going to the store is just a waste of time.I actually just bought a few books from there.. Wintergirls and The fairy Godmother academy. did you start another thread somewhere? you're SN looks familiar.

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I just go through the used bookstores or Amazon. When I was living in Portland a while back I went to Powell's City of Books several times a week. It takes up an entire city block and has 3 or 4 stories. It's like a bibliophile's wet dream. <3

That sounds cool. There's an independent music store in my neighborhood that's similar...an entire city block with two stories, a performance stage, etc...I love getting lost in buildings like that.

I just go through the used bookstores or Amazon. When I was living in Portland a while back I went to Powell's City of Books several times a week. It takes up an entire city block and has 3 or 4 stories. It's like a bibliophile's wet dream. <3

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although the library is my main port of call. The library is great for science, maths and history works, too..

Yeah I never thought the library is probably best for non-fiction or research titles.

Here are some of the giveaways I've entered lately:

Several Various Novels
A few decent novels
A Father's Day Giveaway The Compulsive Reader Monthly Giveaway(one of the best)
Fantasy Book Giveaway A funny giveaway contest

I'm interested in all the classics, because there's more chance of enjoying them and, probably, learning something. It's always easy to pick up these books from charity shops, although the library is my main port of call. The library is great for science, maths and history works, too..

When I'm not looking for anything in particular, I hit up library book sales, funky used book stores, and book swapping sites--it adds an element of chance that you don't usually get online. Sometimes it's all shit, but that's part of the experience.

nah i think that'd be pretty cool actually..

Fair enough. I was going to say I try to find a lot of online contests and giveaways for books; they're free and the various giveaways tend to narrow down your selections for you...but I feel like you wouldn't like that...

everything.. i mean what we should be asking is what is right with amazon ha.