Where are your books from?

[~*heket*~]

Since starting the rego process for Stylish I've been buying up a storm in second hand stores about Sydney. We've picked up some GREAT books! Most of ours are second hand, but we have the odd new one.

Where are yours from?

[Blossomtime]

We've found some great books at Big W and Book City for a reasonable price, but we love looking at garage sales and second hand book shops for goodies. Lots of our books are gifts and a whole bunch were mine and DH's when we were children.

[Blossomtime]

Oooh we've been given a stack of old GEO and National Geographic mags which are brilliant for info, pics and posters and fun to cut up for collage too.

[~*heket*~]

OooOooooohHhhhHHhhhh! I like the garage sale idea, I always forget about them.

[Currawong]

We have the Scholastic warehouse and factory outlet down the road :hide:coffeeThey have regular sales and there are quite a few bargains instore. :lemmeout

We also borrow LOTS of books. You could possibly ask your library to give you more borrowing power because you're a homeschooler. Our library does that.

[Sarasvati]

When I have some spare cash I'm going to visit Bent Books in West End, I had a a quick browse on my birthday and it looked GREAT (it's a secondhand bookstore). I used to work At McGills Technical Bookstore in the city too and we stocked lots of different books, not just tech books, and I think we were one of the first bookstores to have a dedicated gay and lesbian section because the assistant manager and the stock guy were both gay. Borders seems alright too.

[~*heket*~]

I picked up some really great books from the library today, ex rentals, all 50c each :eager

[Aurora]

My collection comes from Ebay, garage sales, opshops and council clean ups, mostly. Others I have bought new if I have been ''in love'' enough, and others I have exchanged with friends, or have been given to me :)

The QVB bookshop is excellent for cheap new books.

[~*heket*~]

Really? I didn't think anything was ever cheap at the QVB :lol Where abouts is that?

[~*heket*~]

and don't anybody DARE say "at the QVB"

[dylan]

i don't think I have paid for a single one of DS's books, they were all given to him or are the ones that I had when I was little.

[4andlearning]

library,opshop and book sales

[Honesty]

same as 4andlearning though we do get gifts too occasionally and even more occasionally splash out on amazon or in a book shop if there is a great offer on. we love books here though little one is a bit of a book-destroyer, probably not helped by the fact we have so many more paper-page books now and so much less supervision time oh an dso many ex-library stock books which were already hammered. bless him.

[rimfiredancing]

A publisher friend of mine put me onto these great online booksellers- www.abebooks.com is a HUGE second hand booksellers place. It pays to check the shipping costs of the sellers, they vary *widely* . The other one is a UK store- www.thebookdepository.com - that has excellent prices on new books and FREE shipping to Australia. I've bought all my recent purchases through these sites, simply because I can't find what I'm looking for locally.

I'd forgotten about Bent Books, I'll go wandering out there this weekend. :D

I'm currently tossing up purchasing Rue Kream's book or trying to find it second hand here in Oz, which I think might be tricky. Anyone know of anywhere here in Brisbane that might have it? I've been on a book buying spree lately, although since the devaluation of the dollar I've eased up on overseas buying- foo. It was good for awhile there though!

[Louise]

I'm trying to use the library more. I have so many books, when we moved I think that boxes of books made up half of our stuff, maybe more. It seems to work if I can limit the number of books I borrow at a time, but when I borrow more than a couple, none get finished then I get overdue fees. Then of course there are books that aren't available at the library or have huge waiting lists...
I live right next to a university, which I can borrow at and they have a really good selection of education books, heaps of alfie kohn and john holt, which is great and they have a big section of children's books too.
Recently I've been getting books from book depository, they have a pretty good selection and postage is fast especially considering they are coming from the other side of the world. I use to use a few australian ones, but too often I would wait ages for a book to arrive-like months.