How much do you pay for second hand paperbacks?

Often buy new from The Works at 3 for £5 - cheaper than our local charity shops unfortunately - mind you I think keep the local Scope shop well stocked with books lol

Between £1.50 and £2.50 here.
I think that's reasonable, considering a paperback is about £7-10.

I go to the library a lot, but do have a monthly Amazon splurge for new books.

I pay 20p at the school fair twice per year I go prepared with a strong bag as there is always lots to choose from. I send them back for the next fair so that they at least make 40p per book as I think they undercharge.

Unless it's a v expensive book or out of print book, I wouldn't pay more than £2, am more likely to buy at £1. Oxfam q pricey round here too.

I'll pay a pound (occasionally up to £1.50) for a paperback, unless it's something I particularly want.

I find BHF expensive at £2+ and don't usually buy books there. However the other day I was in a different town and their BHF was selling paperbacks for a pound. They said it was a 'special offer'. I bought three, and commented that I would have bought none at the normal prices, so they got £3 as opposed to nothing.

I just don't understand the overpricing - surely the books are donated, and in constant supply. I have seen in the past notices in charity shops saying they don't want any more books!

Love buying books from charity shops, have a local Oxfam shop that is dedicated to books. It used to be a really good place to go, books tended to be 75p-£1.25, less for children's. It is now around £2.99-£3.99, don't shop there any more, it has saved me about £20 every month or two.

It is ridiculous!!! wasn't out of print either, at least it looked like an ordinary modern mass market paperback, it was just thick and heavy.

£5.99 for a second hand paperback in an Oxfam shop? That's ridiculous.

I wouldn't pay that much for a second hand paperback, given that most new paperbacks have a RRP between £6.99 and £8.99.

Unless of course the second hand paperback was an out of print book I'd been looking for. Then I'd probably pay that. But only in that scenario.

Local Oxfam £1??
At ours (there's three of them I can think of in the centre) they start from about £1.99 and go up...and up...and up, most of them are at £3.99, but I've come across £5.99 etc for paperbacks.
Can't think of any really cheap bookshops here. Except the one I used to work at- 3 for £1, hardbacks 50p!

One of the Farliegh shops has a 10p paperback box outside, don't know why the books that are in there are in there 'cos they are in good condition. There is also a box for hardbacks at 50p. Our library has had fill a bag for a £1.00 can get 20 books in.

I buy in our local RSPCA shop where they do 50p for paperbacks and £1 for hardbacks. Someone who donates there obviously buys a lot of recent best seller list stuff then donates so I then buy! I also got Ds all the Harry Potters in hardback, in excellent condition.
Oxfam bookshops really bug me....£2.99 for very bog standard paperbacks.

Our charity shops tend to be very much smaller local charities and their prices are much more sensible than the ridiculous overpricing oxfam goes in for. I usually pay 50p for a paperback, maybe £1 for a hardback. - At that price I just re donate when I've finished it.

My local Oxfam tends to charge about half the current RRP for books, so they don't usually charge less than £3 for paperbacks. I very rarely buy any books from there.

I've recently discovered British Heart Foundation for books & they're really good. A lot of recent paperbacks & it's generally. £2. There's also a list where you can put down your name & books you're after and they'll ring when it's in.

50p from local hospice shop. Always has decent stuff in too.

I won't pay much more than £2 for a 2nd hand book.

Our guides have a book sale every 6 months and books are 20p each ... Bargain!

I get a lot of stuff 2nd hand from amazon, books cost 1p, postage £2.80. Pretty good value considering you can get pretty much anything on there.

In my parents' town, charity shop is about 50p for a paperback, here in London, maybe £1.50 to £2.50.

Expensive chain charity shops they are about £2. Cheaper local charity shops £1. Car boot sales £1 or 50p or even 20p if you're lucky.

Postage on amazon tends to be around 2 quid, doesn't it, so I guess they reckon they are still a good deal?

This is a bit of a bugbear of mine, too. I buy lots of books from charity shops and often donate them back when I've finished, but I get very irritated when Oxfam (a particular offender) tries to charge something like £3.99 for an ordinary paperback. It's a secondhand book FFS. Sometimes a fairly battered copy. So I won't buy from them, I'm afraid, charity or not.

We have a local bookstall round the back of the town hall which charges an amazing 20p for paperbacks.....So in that instance I usually put rather more in - which is good psychology, surely. Oxfam take note!

I live in London and my mum is in Ilkley - I have a local Marie Curie shop which is mostly £1 to £1.50, a bit more for special things but the £2 books I've bought there have been excellent condition hardbacks or trade paperbacks published in the last 12 months. Most of the other charity shops I use are £2.50 to £3, which I think is quite a lot but there are some things I'll pay that for if they're in good nick. Some of the places that charge more have occasional 3 for price of 2 or half price sales. The nearest Oxfam bookshop charges more for its section of 2011/2012 books (which includes lots of 2010 stuff) - mistake I think, as I have many of the ones I want on Kindle and those are the books that are easiest to get cheaply as ebooks or as new paperbacks, it's the older treasures I'm after. (Virago Modern Classics, other literary reprints, women writers, crime fiction series, literary biographies, memoirs, travel writing, political stuff, short story collections). I do get some chicklit but I'm quite fussy - if it's something I see in a lot of charity shops I'll hold out for a copy which looks almost new.

Our local BHF shop is the dearest, at around £2.50-£2.75 for a paperback, some of which are not that recent. The cheapest I found was a charity shop when I was on holiday a few weeks ago and they charged 10p for paperbacks. I will definitely be going in there again :o

And the library is great, I don't get why they sell off their old stock so quickly,I have paid around 75p for paperbacks, up to 1.50 for non fiction. Got The Bell Jar, and The Handmaids Tale recently for about 50p each

£1 at my charity shops though Marie Curie does BOGOF on all.books

the St Oswalds shop sells all childrens paperbacks and board.books for 25p each.