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Originally Posted by DarkScribe
An enthusiastic reader would very likely buy a lot of secondhand books.
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Unless of course you're an enthusiastic reader who prefers to read books published outside your own country/language.
I've only bought secondhand books when they're not available new, as the only places I can get secondhand English books in the genres I prefer are eBay, Amazon Marketplace and Abebooks, i.e. online bookshops; add in international shipping costs and secondhand books really aren't that cheap.
The average cost of non-free ebooks I've bought this year, thanks to taking advantage of coupons, sales and discounts whenever possible, is $4.03 - that's less than the shipping costs of any secondhand book I've ever bought, never mind the price of the book itself in addition to the P&P.
On the other hand, as I don't need to worry about shelf space and space for shelves any more, I've bought 191 ebooks for nearly $800 total this year already, so... yeah. "Saving" is a very relative term.
