Where do you buy your books?

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I won’t support Amazon either, for the reasons you mentioned.

My first stop for books is a large, locally based bookstore that ships, like powells.com or elliottbaybooks.com. The OP should be able to find similar options in his/her home country. If I still can’t locate the book, I go to Barnes and Noble’s site.

If I’m not looking for anything specific, I raid the thrift stores, library book sales, garage sales, and the local paperback trade shop.
 
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Vintage book stores!

I love the search through the musty, dusty stacks! A few weeks ago, I was shopping at a local vintage book store, and I was up in their attic searching for some very old titles. It was dimly-lit and very close and stuffy up there, and after about two hours of digging through boxes and shelves of century-old volumes (and finding 2 of the books I was looking for!), i found that I was very light-headed and a little confused and very very tired. I thought, “I wonder if they would mind if I just lie down on the floor and go to sleep for while.”

At that point I realized that i had better scram out of there fast before I ended up becoming “one with the dusty tomes, never to be seen or heard from again!” 😱

The perils of vintage book stores! I truly believe that they might be portals to a different dimension!
 
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I use the library a lot, and buy from Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and Pauline Books and Media.A few months ago I’ve gotten out of the habit of reading books and need to get back into the habit. I have several books I bought and planned to read on vacay this past May but never did.
 
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I shop at Powells, half Price Books, The Tan website, The FSSP website, Ignatius Press, and the used bookstores in the university district. When ordering, it has helped me to order lots of books at once which may cut down on the shipping costs. Of course a drive in to the local used bookstores is also an option.
I read books for free online at the Gutenberg Project but prefer holding a book while reading.
Here’s a link to gutenberg and an example of some available options for Longfellows translation of the Divine Comedy.

www.gutenberg.org

Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Dante Alighieri

Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
www.gutenberg.org www.gutenberg.org

At times, I am gifted with box store gift cards, but, when I spend my own money, I try to send my business to places I really want to support.
 
I have the first generation of Kindle Fire and I can’t get a Bible to work on it, owing to limitations of the operating system. I had a Lighthouse Bible on it but then it wouldn’t work.

There must be quite a profit margin on selling ebooks. But on my Kindle, I don’t like having no page numbers. I’m not sure that I get the entire text of a book, or rather some condensed version of it.

It’s hard for me to tell on the amazon website which is the latest version of Kindle. I’m “into” the Vivica Sten murder mysteries, fairly well-written with lots of Swedish “color” to the stories and my fantasizing about the wealthy lifestyle on the islands east of Stockholm.

I’ve started reading the Kindle version of Orthodoxy by Chesterton. It helps me to have the built-in dictionary for the occasional look-up. But, I can’t imagine what drugs he was on. I haven’t gotten to any part that looks to me like it is relevant to the topic. He was not one to use “white space” very much, for sure.
 
I tried them today but had a bit of trouble with registering. could be entirely me and having a bad head cold, can not think !
I will try them for next book, looks like a great place to buy, so thanks.
but for now I went and ordered on amazon
 
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Barnes and Noble. There is one close to my house plus I have a B&N Nook e-reader, so I order e-books from them by default.
 
I don’t live in an area with a bookstore, so virtually all of my book-shopping is done via Amazon. When I’m visiting a larger city an hour or so away, I stop in to their BooksAMillion, and while on vacation I always pop into local bookstores and buy something. I’ve read 1 of the last 4 books I bought from my last three vacations…
 
I get books from many places. 😜

Verbum.com, Amazon, the publisher of the book I’m looking at (Ignatius Press, Sophia Institute Press, OSV, etc.), Lighthouse Catholic Media/Augustine Institute (I stock our parish kiosk with books and CDs), garage sales, thrift stores, the local Catholic book store, etc. etc.
 
I will go out of my way to buy from small independents. Way out of my way. Rarely do I use amazon.
 
It depends on the book.

If it’s a book I want to add to my library, I’ll check Amazon for used or new and go with the best price.

If it’s a book I just want to read and be done with it, the public library is the way to go and I check their ebooks first.

Years ago, my wife and myself remodeled our house.

We ended up with ten bags of books we donated. Most were on the political/social events of the day or how to books which we never got into the craft or hobby.

We only buy books we know are classics or on religion which we hope to pass on to our children and grandchildren

Jim
 
We have one Catholic bookstore here. I love frequenting it. I also get free reading material from our parish and in Germantown. I really load my bags there.
 
I usually buy my books used from Abebooks and eBay. I don’t buy a lot of new books.

Occasionally, I’ll order straight from the publisher.

What country is so expensive to ship to? Can you give an example?
 
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I live in the Philippines. I use Amazon. Good booksellers are absent in my country,
when it comes to much selection. I would love it if a Borders bookstore was here.

I’m sure some of the books I order from them aren’t in my country at all except in my possession.

Amazon generally has them. I order six books or so at a time, which helps keep shipping costs down when they

send them in one package.
If a book is out of print and not sold by amazon, however, I go to the addall site.
 
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