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grumbles · 03-24-2012, 05:31 PM

I visit several used bookstores on an at least weekly basis.

When looking for a book I first check to see if it is available as an ebook. iF it's available and it isn't and agency book and it under $10, I will buy it. If not I look for it at the library. If it isn't available there I look for it used. I will not buy any paper book new. Not at the current publishers' over inflated prices. i.e Rex Stout's Death of Dude carries a cover price of $22.

Then there are all those paperbacks from the 50's, 60's & 70's, long out of print and probably orphaned either by chance or design. There's a lot of very good reading there especially in contrast to all the fantasy treif that being dumped on the market these days.

I wander into Indigo from time to time to look at what is remaindered but to buy, I just go across the street to BMV. In Toronto, Elliot's Books, downtown is three floors of a reader's paradise.

03-24-2012, 05:31 PM	#27
grumbles Addict Posts: 238 Karma: 1500000 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Toronto Device: Pandigital Novel (Black), T-2 and 3, Nexus 7	I visit several used bookstores on an at least weekly basis. When looking for a book I first check to see if it is available as an ebook. iF it's available and it isn't and agency book and it under $10, I will buy it. If not I look for it at the library. If it isn't available there I look for it used. I will not buy any paper book new. Not at the current publishers' over inflated prices. i.e Rex Stout's Death of Dude carries a cover price of $22. Then there are all those paperbacks from the 50's, 60's & 70's, long out of print and probably orphaned either by chance or design. There's a lot of very good reading there especially in contrast to all the fantasy treif that being dumped on the market these days. I wander into Indigo from time to time to look at what is remaindered but to buy, I just go across the street to BMV. In Toronto, Elliot's Books, downtown is three floors of a reader's paradise.