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Originally posted by musketeer
I have know me go out and buy a new book at lunchtime and finish reading it at suppertime - gets frustrating and expensive reading them that quick.
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I ery rarely buy books at full price. There's a paperback exchange in town. You take in books, they record the total price of all of them, and record it in a book. From there, you pick through the thousands and thousands of books they have in, and go to check out.
They take the amount of the book you pick, and subtract it from the amount of "money" you brought in, and then charge $1.25 for the book. If you don't have any money in your account, or no account, then the book is half of the publisher's price, or $2.50, whichever is higher.
It's a good way to find older books that are no longer published, as well.
Yard sales are a great place to pick up books cheap, too. Most times, you can get them for $.25 each, or a deal like 5/$1.
The only ones I buy brand new are the authors I follow closely, and even those I'll wait a month or two and see if they pop up at the exchange first. That is usually Johanna Lindsey, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Susan Krinard, James Patterson, and Stephan King.
I wonder how easy it would be to set up a book ring online, to just send books in a circle to people, and get one back from them.... Pondersome.