Do you still visit bookstores? I haven't been in one in 2 years. It's all Amazon and Public libraries for me
>>23810586My city has atleast 3 good bookstores, I visit some every now and then.
>>23810586I do but I buy more used than new instore because MSRP is too high
>>23810586>L'academie coming soonoh, the memories
>>23810586No bookstore looks like this
NoI usually get everything off Amazon or eBay Or the NYRB semi annual sales
>>23810586I used to love my local book stores until they started flying the pride flag and shilling libcukery.Now I just get everything from inter-library loan. Jews saturate the publishing industry now so it's hard to find books that aren't midwit circle jerks and cis-trans-stronkFemal vomit.
>>23810586I'm too poor to buy booksThe vast majority of the books I've read were either e-books or audiobooks
>>23810586It's all libgen for me.
>>23810586>It's all Amazon and Public libraries for meSame desu.
>>23810586I went to a Barnes & Noble for the first time in years and the prices were fucking crazy compared to Amazon. I saw some books costing nearly 2x more. It's no surprise so many book stores are going out of business, especially with more people choosing digital, and reading less overall.
>>23810586Yeah, secondhand charity bookstores are a fucking goldmine for art history books
>>23810586I like to go to Barnes and noble once every other month. Take a day off in the middle of the week where it's only me and some lonely house wife who's husband is at work and the kids are in school. I find a book and sometimes an easy fuck.
>>23810586I adore going to bookstores. Whenever I walk by one I feel a compulsive urge to step inside just to loiter around and peruse the books even if I don't plan on buying one. And usually when I start buying I can't stop. It's become a bit of a problem actually. I'm book collecting my family out of house and home.
>>23810586Sometimes yea, but I never bought a single book from there. I'd rather buy my books online, its way more cheaper and I dont have to spent extra goybucks for the store wagecucks and building rent. If I go to bookstore I just simply look around and that's it.
I'm somewhat afraid of public libraries because I don't wanna get mugged or stabbed by a crackhead.
only fifty cent and under thrift stores
>>23810586amazon is fine if you don't mind your package arriving like shit and are willing to ask for replacements 3 times. still, not the worst option considering all books in non-used bookstores are crazy overpriced
>>23810586>Do you still visit bookstores?whenever mommy offers to take me, nyes. i'd go on a more regular basis if i didn't loathe driving.
>>23812609>amazon is fine if you don't mind your package arriving like shit and are willing to ask for replacements 3 times.I find it's better if you order multiple books at once rather than one. Almost every time I order a single book it comes in a mailer and is kind of worn. Ordering multiples or with other items they'll ship it in a box with at least some padding.
>>23810586I have an addiction, so I go to used bookstores all the time. I've gone so much, the owners recognize me and have a weirded out looks when I come by. They're practically telling me to slow down my reading and buying habits
>>23810586z-lib is my bookstore - because all other bookstores in my country are either run by kikes or woke, totally obedient muzzle-wearing and vaxxed leftards. May they go bankrupt, i will never pay them a single dime again.
>>23811314I hate to be nostalgic for such a fucked up happening, yet, I am.
>>23813292that's sad, communists probably invented wokies and faggots to shit up the only kind of establishment that repulsed funky negroes and stinking gypsies without actually offending them
>>23810586Only public librar for me, i am poor
>>23813340aren't there like homeless people jerking off, sleeping, or defecating behind the open stacks?
>>23812234The Oxfam bookshops are always the best.
>>23810586I go to Barnes and Noble once a week but never buy anything. It's all the same crap:>Boomercon Americans save the universe>Feminists kill the Patriarchy with magic>Teenagers are gay>Shit I've already read getting republished>Some fairytale/old Disney movie mutilated beyond recognition.
>>23813292the lamest shit is that the people who own the main bookstore in my city also own a restaurant and during the coof they made you wear a mask in the bookstore but in the restaurant they of course let people take their masks off, like wow covid is deadly in here but not a problem over there, fuck those assholes i will not be supporting "independent" bookstores
>>23813366NTA but not everybody is a burger like you.
>>23813534everybody is a burger anonjust not the same kind
>>23811821This quote is misattributed
>>23813613all quotes are misattributed unless accompanied by their birth chart
>>23810586Yeah, I visit Anna's quite often.
Yes I'm a regular, they know me by name. Not a big chain, small-ish place with people that care. Two times out of three they already have whatever I want at the store, otherwise they can order it. They also have the occasional reading event and I like their selection of calendars.If you aren't buying books in stores you are incredibly soulless.
>>23811314I can't wait for his next work.
>>23812486Just don't go to the libraries in Baltimore, and you'll be fine.
>>23813534>this is an america-exclusive problemok
>>23812232To me the big problem with Barnes & Noble is the selection.
>>23810586I check occasionally for old Loebs and stuff like that but otherwise not really. Amazon and Abebooks are just way better 99% of the time and I can go to the library too.
>>23810586I visit used bookstores every now and then. I always buy something, partially because I'm paranoid I'll be accused of shoplifting if I leave a store without making a purchase, but mostly because I always find something I want to read. I love used bookstores, especially independent ones. They're always very cozy, but also probably fire hazards. Very quiet and peaceful, too. I can't remember ever seeing another young man in a used bookstore, though. Maybe in Seattle.
For me it's thrift stores and Anna's Archive
Yeah. I love book stores. Unfortunately, there are all too few good ones. I still have fun browsing at different Barnes & Nobles though.
1. goodwill 2. used book stores 3. Barnes & NobleI want to rank local book stores 3rd but I’ve never even seen a local book store that wasn’t some shitty leftist pozz shop or a YA fantasy store more than a proper book store.
There's one bookstore in my entire city, and it's a chain store, and we have a population of roughly ~3 million in the general area. There used to be some used bookstores but I guess rent got too high to make it feasible to operate.
>uppity bookstore only sells new, overpriced>small used bookstore never has what I want to readthose are the only options within 20 miles, so most of my books come from thriftbooks. maybe I should just take the e-reader + libgen pill, but I can't convince myself.
>>23816035Seriously considering buying a Kobo, installing KOReader on it and syncing it to my desktop.
On a weekly basis. My state has a nice amount of used and independent bookstores, and I travel frequently for work, so I kill time checking them out. Most are like what many anons have posted here, but there are a few gems that are so good that I will bid on trips to those towns just to visit them. Besides that, I only buy books from two places:>my local thrift shop because it’s 50¢ - 75¢ a book, and they are always stocked with high-quality material. >used bookstore in a neighboring town with a good, inexpensive inventory made even more affordable by a generous trade-in credit program
a couple bookstores have sections of old books that either havent been digitized or are behind a subscription paywall, ive cleaned out all the interesting stuff so ill have to wait a year or so for them to build up anything more. i recently found a book from the 20s with an amalgamation of stories the author heard growing up (40+ years prior) from old black women in the south who claimed to have met abraham lincoln. its written in ebonics and is mostly about how much he liked their food.
I can buy 4-5 books with 10 euros on bookstores compared to Amazon where i can only buy 1 book with the same money. only problem with bookstores is that they don't sell books that are old and not popular among gen z or millennials. but above all the issues ,the biggest problem that I have is that THEY ARE FUCKING REPLACING ACTUAL LITERATURE WITH JAPANESE MANGAS. GOD I HATE WEEBS.
>>23815930For me, it's the hypocrisy
