Does anyone go to bookshops any more?

I am trying to break my Amazon addiction, they really are an appalling company!

Can I recommend HIVE.

Hive.co.uk is where the two worlds of online purchasing and high street shopping collide. You love the ease and luxury of shopping online, but you don't want to see the bricks and mortar shops on the high street disappear. With hive, every time you make a purchase you are supporting your local independent shop as well, just by continuing to do what you love - buying your books, eBooks, entertainment and stationery online. Happy days.

Our local Waterstones is always busy. I love the Oxfam bookshop. I don't find them expensive in general.

I find if I really love a book I want to own a paper copy rather than have it on my kindle. Bill Bryson books for example.

I've been trying to rein in my Amazon habit, not just because of what it's doing to the high street (although the thought of no physical bookshops is depressing) but because of how Amazon treats its staff to achieve those ultra cheap prices. We don't have a local independent bookshop any more and the range in our local Waterstones is pretty limited - if you know what you're looking for they can order it but browsing for stuff you've never come across is harder. I'd love to have a quirky book shop nearby with one or two copies of lots of interesting books instead of tables stacked high with three-for-two offers. Ideally with a cafe and a soft play at the back! In the meantime, for my Christmas book shopping I used Hive instead of Amazon - it's a great website, I found it just as fast and convenient as Amazon and almost as cheap, and your nominated independent bookshop gets a percentage of the sale.

I am in Waterstones at least twice a week. Love spending my lunch break browsing books and buy too many.....

Guilty: I love Waterstones & other bookshop but I buy books from Amazon.

It's not just about discounts. It's more about the range of stock. You can normally get really obscure books, whatever author / topic you are after.

They are independent and have the best collection of moomin books and children's literature. The adult section is just edited really well so I always see something unusual that I like.

My local bookstore is ace, I know because whenever I go in I always can't resist something. I buy physical copies of stuff I want to keep on the bookshelf. More throwaway fiction on the iPad

We have an Oxfam bookshop near us which I quite like going into, although its £££

We have a Waterstones which I love. I could spend all day in there.

I love waterstones (no independent book shops available in my city centre sadly). When I am stressed out by city centre shopping, I go into waterstones and calm down looking at books. Yes, Amazon is cheaper (I only like real books not kindle), but DH usually buys me a waterstones voucher card for my birthday so I don't have to feel guilty about the money I am spending on books.

Forgot to say that the stamped card when full will give you £10 off a purchase.

Waterstones will give you a loyalty card which will give you whatever you have on it off any purchase. Also, they will stamp a card whenever you spend £10. So I tend to buy paperbacks in twos. Also click and collect can also give discounts. These incentives do help and I know that if we don't make the effort to support them we will be left with very restricted ranges of popular books in Supermarkets etc. I have a lot of books on my I Pad but have bought them also for DH as he dislikes reading on a tablet and I can't give up my I Pad for long stretches while he reads a book. I now tend to buy a book as there is something lovely about possessing one and you can hand them on to other readers.

I go to bookshops still. The trouble is when I go there, I buy books.

You can get e-books at Waterstone's; I did when I had a voucher. It's a bit more faffy though.

But my friend owns an independent bookshop. So I do sometimes go there!

We have an amazing independent bookshop near us. We buy quite a lot there, but it's not mainstream fiction, I buy that on amazon for my Kindle, but I buy unusual books, they get lots of authors visiting, so I either buy signed book at an event, or some of the stock of signed books afterwards. Lots of people got signed books for Xmas this year. It's also good for children's books, they have lots of hardback ladybird style books I buy DD to help with her reading. They don't seem to stock that much mainstream fiction, I think they know people don't buy it there. But it is my favourite shop in the world

Love bookshops
Haven't shopped on Amazon for ages maybe years.

I think waterstones & WHS are not that much different from Amazon tbh. in that they are a large chain as well. Think they both also sell the Amazon Kindle. Mill goes to Waterstones and refuses to buy from Amazon over the corporation tax issue. My DDs like reading but prefer Kindle. Mill got them a lovely selection of books from Waterstones. I checked the prices online and the same books on kindle would have cost less than half! I can somehow understand when people pay more to go to an independent bookshop, although personally I wouldn't but I struggle to understand why someone would pay double to go to a chain.

And that describes the death of the bookshop in a nutshell. We all do it, because we don't like to pay more for a book than we need to, and you can't beat the convenience of Amazon's online store.

And yet, I feel guilty every time I do it because I'm contributing to the death of the high street bookshop. And not just the bookshop, but the death of the high street (but that's a whole other gripe). We lost our local bookshop, which I did try to support as much as I could afford to do so, and the nearest one in the next town is just W H Smith (small branch, small selection of books).

The nearest branch of Waterstones is at least 25 miles away, so major excursion to that. Out of convenience, it is Amazon where we live (very rural).

I go into bookshops and write down the books that look interesting as does my son.

We then come home and buy on Amazon at a fraction of the price. Sometimes as cheap as a couple of pound a book including delivery.

Why would I pay more?

I couldn't get the pushchair into Waterstones in Greenwich yesterday. It was packed.

I like Waterstones but it's 10 miles away & never the cheapest option. We have an independent bookstore in our nearest town and I buy a lot of books/books as presents in there but they don't usually have newly published straight away, in which case I revert to Amazon.

I wanted a hard copy of Chris Hardfield book but the best discount of seventy percent was on amazon. I don't have money to throw around so I ordered it. I googled all the other books stores but they we all full price at £20. I know my dp will love it. I don't think he will care where it came from.

I would love to boycott amazon but I have already invested too much. My kindle is full of paid books.

For my mil I always have to get her hard copies too. I remember returning four books back to waterstones because they were three times cheaper from tesco. For me it's all about saving money.

The best place to get books is a charity shop. £1.

Independent book stores can't compete.

For interesting books I used to go to a small I dependent book store in North London. I love it. But it was very expensive. I remember buying a collectors book from there. Amazing.

It's awful. I love going into bookshops, but our local one closed down. The reason it closed down is people like me who have Kindles and buy everything from Amazon. I would hate to see bookshops disappear, yet I am actively complicit in their demise.

I like going into book shops because if you are browsing in a real shop, you tend to see different things that wouldn't necessarily appear on your amazon recommendations, or your kindle editor's picks. However, if you know what you want, it is so much cheaper and easier to buy online. I don't know how the bookshops will survive. Not having them leaves us with less choice about what to buy, because we are dictated to by a much narrower set of criteria. It's a difficult problem, and doesn't just apply to books, also toys and other goods.

No indie bookshops left where we are only waterstones and whs. never tought I would say it but prefer reading on kindle. I like to download samples before buying.

Much as I love independent bookshops, I buy about 6-10 books a month on my kindle....It would cost me so much more to buy a hardback...I like reading new releases.
Also I couldn't store that volume of books.