Used Bookstores

I live in Buenos Aires, the city with most bookstores per capita, and here in a little square every sunday people gather to trade/buy/sell used books.. It's pretty cheap and nice.

also sorry for my bad english

No good ones in my area so I use Abebooks.com
If your in the same boat you should check it out.

>not using bookfinder

I buy my textbooks there, they're usually a quarter of the cost compared to amazon

Based website

Gotta go travel then.

I just recently discovered a nearby city library sells books super cheap, and I was online and I found a bookstore that just sells used books. I'll have to check these out.

The Book Den in Santa Barbara. Oldest used book store in California... Lovely place with a nice atmosphere and good selection.

I went to a place called Caliban in Pittsburgh. The selection was always poor, especially in their philosophy section. I only went there because it was a couple of blocks from where I lived.

Anybody know any good ones in Boston? I'm sure they're out there, I just haven't had the time to search

What's up user. Columbia boi here reporting back--I'm having some late night tea at the café and reading Kierkegaard. Which translation of the Iliad are you in? Apparently Fagles is goat but I only have Fitzgerald... read it bout three months back. The scene where the shade of Patróklos comes to Achilles drunk at the funeral games got me misty... that and when Athena cries out with Achilles from the battlement together.

Hope you're cozy man.

Macleod's in Vancouver BC

Anyone know a good place in Huntington Beach CA?

In Hawaii, I used to go to Jelly's. Used books, records, and local game shop. They closed one location but I think they're still alive downtown. In Maryland I would visit The Book Plate. Good selection. Bought some of the Spanish equivalent to Polish pottery from there, as well.

Thanks my man. I'm in Texas and my town is fucking horrible for books/lit pursuits.

I GO TO BARNES & NOBLE TO HIT ON JAILBAIT AND FIND THE LATEST IN SELF HELP WRITING HUEHUEHUE

You should look for flea markets ("Flohmarkt" or "Trödelmarkt"). It's more common to sell your old stuff there instead of 2nd hand stores.

That place looks like a nightmare. How are you supposed to find anything?

I do this too sometimes. I genuinely like the atmosphere at most of the B&Ns I've been to. There's one in Detroit far out on the east side that's like the only book store I know of around, since all the others I'm aware of closed :(

Yes, probably. I would usually go there on Thursday or Friday evenings on my way home from work. It's a nice place.

There is an English used bookstore north of the HBF and not too shabby of a collection either eventhough popular books are quickly sold again after they have just come in. It is called Munich readery.
pic related is the bookmarker I use that they gave me.

t. munich fag as well

lithium days? Is being on lithium an enjoyable experience? I'd only ever heard of it as being "less shitty than being regularly depressed."

By city:
>Indianapolis
Indy Reads Books. It's a non-profit blah blah blah sometimes they have neat stuff, sometimes I won't find anything for months. My most recent purchase from there was Rings of Saturn.
>New Orleans
Crescent City is bretty damn good. Find all the Veeky Forums memes you want. Also cats.
>Orlando(ish)
Maya books and music. The lady who owns it tends to give you discounts if you buy the stuff she likes, and she has fairly "patrician" taste. Also animals.
>Jackson, MS
Lemuria. Probably the best US bookstore stateside outside of Jew York or shitcongo. Spent $100 last time I was there, and their prices aren't bad.

Bud go to Canterbury Tales on Broadway lmao
But McLeods is p good

Any good places in Toronto? I'm out in the countryside but I'm sure I'll be in the city a couple of times this summer.

washington dc:
>the lantern in georgetown
>second story in dupont
>kramers if you want to overpay for a famous bookstore that serves brunch to yuppies

honestly tho, unless i have no idea what i want to read and just feel like browsing, i normally use abebooks. although shit is sometimes so cheap at the lantern ill buy like 30 books that i know i will read one day

man I have that D&D Starter set in this picture but nobody i know is interested in the game and I'm only a beginner so I'd be best off playing with people who know it better than myself. ;_;

Went here during my trip to Seattle. The staff are really nice and gave me some good recs.

forgot pic

Denver

Book rack

That bookstore looks really familiar, but I can't put my finger on it. You aren't from around the bay area are you?

That sounds great dude

i want to open a used meat store

not even close

>Also the Strand is good

I virtually used to live at the Strand years ago. Still go to it every once in a while and is my go to recommendation for anyone looking for a bookstore in NYC.

I go usually to two bookstores of the same company. One of them has a fat and old cat that meows when you don't scratch her, she's so cute

>112th street
I live in Brooklyn so that's a bit of a haul for me, but it sounds nice. There are a lot of cool bookstores in NYC. If you're interested in any esoteric stuff, Quest Books on 53rd street is pretty good.

What up, Columbia represent

it's nice that the core basically gives you a gigantic base in western culture

LitHum is a class at Columbia for undergraduates in which first-year students read great works of literature

roar lion roar

It was Dawn Treader probably.
That's gone.

Daedalus just off the mall, and Heartwood across from the U on Elliewood, in Charlottesville VA are excellent. On the mall Blue Whale and Read it Again, Sam rate looks.
A great one closed on Main a few years back, unfortunately. Great town for used books, nonetheless. There are about 4 other venues, and many specialty dealers.

Should we do a Columbia Veeky Forums meet-up? Or should we keep the air of mystery? I'm afraid one of you might be a professor. I'm also terrified I'd come off as an idiot.

prices aren't the best but surprisingly a some good shit to be found for bookstore in an average suburban strip mall (majority of my NYRBs and NDs)

Anybody got anything in Chicago/Chicagoland?

In Portland, OR

>Montreal
The word or Westcott books
The word is very well organized and have nice selection whereas Westcott is the most disorganized hell hole I have been to.

If there are any other anglophone bookstores in the area of montreal, do let me know.

That place looks legit. I've only ever been to Powell's in Portland. The bookstore itself is alright but the hipsters bugged the hell out of me

I'd love to travel to Bs.As. Here in Rosario we have a lot of used bookstores in the centric area. Most of them have good prices. They're really comfy, too.

Lived in Oxford for three years used to go to Blackwell's on broad street several times a week just to browse the books.
Three more floors like the one in the picture.

Argo is small but decent.

That's half the fun. I go in there looking for one thing and usually find something else while digging through piles. It's also more organized than it looks and the staff know where everything is.

lmao xD

Go to The Albion Beatnik. Fuck Blackwells.

There's this place called Book Off in Orange County that I used to go to all the time. I think it was in Costa Mesa. You could find books and games there cheap as fug. Good shit too, more often than not. I live in Riverside now and I heard there's a great one near RCC but I haven't had the chance to check it out yet.

It is also closed, last I checked. :(

S W Welch in Mile End is incredible my man

I usually order from Thriftbooks and pay on average $3.75 per book after discounts and free shipping. Am I doing good?

There's also drawn and quarterly, which is mostly graphic novels but has a reasonable literature section and some meme poetry. Seems like there's a few of us in montreal anyways.

Oxfam is pretty good here in the UK, because academics and rich people consider it "above" other charity shops and thus donate a lot of classic literature, academic works and antiquarian stuff

Typically they are more expensive than other charity shops but still more reasonable than independent booksellers

Nothing?
I guess I'll have to do some searching

>mother foucault
i'm sure they have a great selection of philosophy and it's a good place to browse, but christ that is a cringy name

Have you ever been to westsider books? A bit small but pretty good prices for nyc.

There are two quality used bookstores in my city within walking distance of each other. This one is interesting because it's just a converted 3 bedroom house, with all the room catering towards a certain genre (kitchen for cookbooks, living room for kids stuff, basement and garage for autists). Owner is very picky about his selection and we share similar tastes, i recently picked up an old as fuck edition of chatterton's verse, a bunch of Northrop Frye, and a selection of writings on Mircea Eliade

Atlanta has two Book Nooks, A'Capella and Half-Price books.

Anyone have any Philly recomendations?

Have only been to the place across from the Barnes entrance which has a good selection and prices, and the place in reading terminal market which is a alright little nook.

Serious question Veeky Forums everybody uses and even promotes used bookstores but isn't that at the expense of the authors that are still alive, so in a way we are dooming novelists to remain poor.

nah

yah

Well fuck samefag

Most of the books I buy usually are impossible to find in normal libraries and/or the author who wrote them are dead

Should I assume you are all french canadian cegep students attending english college? Or would I be wrong doing so?

The cool thing about used book stores is that THE BOOKS ARE USED AND WERE ONCE BOUGHT AT FULL PRICE. Does this answer your question?

I go to a place called Vons on my university campus. I mainly buy philosophy books so I get a lot of quality editions that already have notes taken in them from students that took a philosophy class.

Most of the money an author makes is from the money at first signing. They make very little from royalties. It's the same thing with music.

You're hurting the publishing and record companies by buying secondhand or pirating, but who gives a fuck about those Jews?

>that already have notes taken in them from students that took a philosophy class.

Why would you want this?

New Zealand, 'Hard to find books'. It's pretty cozy desu

>reading authors that are still alive