Books on the Cheap

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  • April 28, 2009 at 1:31 pm
    Bookworm
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    I’ve seen a lot of questions on affording/finding book choices and wanted to put up a general category for how to find cheap books!

    1. If your local library doesn’t have it, you can often request it from another library in your state for free or a small fee–I do this all the time. It costs me 75 cents. This works especially well for literature books that we can read fairly quickly.

    3. Use http://www.paperbackswap.com –use the wish list feature if the book you want is not available right now. I often get books there, and the average cost to me is about $2. I just ran through my list of transactions there, and quit counting at 150 school-related books I got there!!! I often list my books I won’t be using again there to trade. Stop by and say hi! I’m Bookwormmichelle there.

    4. Don’t buy new if you do buy. Attend used book swaps or library sales, use places like Amazon Z-shops and half.com, check online cutrate places like buy.com or bookcloseouts.com

    To find book sales near you, go to http://www.booksalefinder.com You can register there and they will tell you what is coming up in your area.

    To find prices on books from many sellers, try Fetchbook at http://www.fetchbook.info/ Enter in the book you need and it will automatically search many sellers to find you the best price.

    Just watch out–if you try all these things, your house might end up looking like mine–decorated in Early Messy Library/Insufficient Shelves Style. :0)

    Michelle D

    April 28, 2009 at 3:37 pm
    richpond
    Participant

    Thanks Michelle for the advice…my house is in the same style Early Messy Library..I don’t think it will be featured in Southern Living anytime soon. But it works for us!!

    Shelly

    April 28, 2009 at 8:26 pm
    Misty
    Participant

    thank u so much for those sites. I needed that info cause our problem w/ the library is sometimes I run out of time even with renewing and find it’s just easier to buy some of these.

    Bless you and your books

    Misty

    April 29, 2009 at 12:31 am
    csmamma
    Participant

    That type of decor sounds beautiful, Michelle! lol

    April 29, 2009 at 2:42 am
    missceegee
    Participant

    Early Messy Library, I love it! That’s totally our style, too.

    In fact, I haven’t seen the surface of our school room table for weeks – until tonight, a friend came over and helped me whip the room into shape since I’m hosting an All Day CM DVD seminar on Saturday at my home and it wouldn’t do if it looked like the bookshelves exploded! 😆

    April 29, 2009 at 10:37 pm
    Doug Smith
    Keymaster

    Wow Michelle, that was really thoughtful of you to gather and post all of that for everyone’s benefit. Thanks! Maybe we should be talking about a guest blog post. 😉

    Another useful site for comparing book prices from multiple sellers is AdALL. They even try to factor in shipping costs for you.

    And don’t forget that we have the little Find at your Library link for books in the CM Bookfinder. That takes you to WorldCat where you can enter your location and it will show you libraries near you with that book (if your local libraries participate in the service). They also show you a few places where you can buy it along with the prices.

    April 30, 2009 at 1:35 am
    richpond
    Participant

    Oh yes, Doug, I love that World Cat link in the bookfinder. That is so helpful to me.

    Speaking of book sales..our local library had one starting today and I was able to find severl good books on my list for .25 each..what a bargin.

    Can you believe I found Pyramid by David MaCaulay for .25 and Island of the Blue Dolphins and Stone Fox also. I was so excited.

    Shelly

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