Where can I buy books cheap ?

[crystaltips]

Looking for a place to get cheap books - website or high street .... Thanks

ebay?

Amazon?

Sorry if they are obv but just in case...

Also abebooks.com are good for old books

Is it for you or childrens books?

www.thebookpeople.co.uk

I was going to recommend the Book People blackduck. They are great - good quality books at excellent prices.

Avoid BFC (Books For Children), and other clubs that involve a commitment.

Ebay is good too.

The Book People ? here Not a club but you can accumulate points and get good deals. catalogue changes each month and you can order from back catalogues subject to availability.

oops Snap!

Black duck - don't talk to me about the book people ......

I live in Belfast - and am still reeling from the fact that they put our postage up to £6.50.... Someone needs to tell them to look at their Atlases and realise that we ARE in the UK and that we use the ROyal Mail too!!

Have just come from their website - having just filled my basket up with goodies ( was prepared to take the postage hit ) - went to checkout - to have my basket emptied saying - because I live in Northern Ireland these books are no longer available to me

AAAAGGGGHHH!!!

Any other suggestions please ......

Crystaltips...sorry to hear the Bookpeople are such a pain for you...is there anyway someone here can order for you and then post on?
Otherwise there are discount bookshops the highstreet - we have one I think it's called the Book Store or something orginal like that, they do cheap books...

Sorry to hear that crystaltips. They certainly have the best offers for the sort of books I want to buy.

Do you know why they're declining to sell the books to you? Is it a copyright regions thing? I can't think of any rational explanation.

The post on idea might work if your original order was over £30 as the postage to the first address would be free....
Have you tried Tesco.com (I know sound weird, but they too do books cheap...)
What type of books were you after?

I think some remoter areas of Scotland are 'banned' as well, luckily not ours. I suspect it might be to do with the areas that their carriers cover.

A bit off topic but I had an email from The Book peopel this morning and they now seem to be promoting Red House Books - have they bought them up or something?

I sometimes get stuff from the Book People and have a few times got books that would be expensive new, second hand from Ebay. I havent used Ebay for anything else but felt very pleased with the books. One was out of print, one an expensive music book and one I just couldnt get in my local shop, wanted it for my dad and the person I bought it from posted it straight to him, very handy.
But I do mostly try to force myself to use our local excellent book shop. It is more expensive than Amazon or Book people but I would really hate if it closed down.

DS has hundreds of books mostly bought from schoo fayres, beaver fayres and caruty shops. We have all the classics, all in good condition and average cost is 10p.

As far as the beeok people are concerned - I can only think that it's ignorance ... as we do use the same postal service as everyone else....

They were challenged that BBC programme - but they did not back down ... now just seem to have upped it and refuse to send us the real bargains ... PRATS

In all fairness I just have a weakness for books !!

Buy loads and have a list as long os my arm waiting to be read .... it's just my vice ... could be worse !!

Red house books are good. Again, not a book club, you can order as and when you like, and they are cheap. I buy nearly all my books from there and the book people. Try this

crystaltips - my vice too. Dh had a fit the other day when I told him I'd been into Ottakars and virtually spent £1000, he thought I meant I'd spent virtually £1000 iyswim!

DS1 is starting to collect books too. Last week he chose a book as a reward for good behaviour, and recently requested that relatives should buy him books instead of Easter Eggs ... he's only 6.5!

I went into "The Works", a bargin book shop the other day and bought:-
Milk Glass Moon....Adriana Trigiani £1.99
Paper back
Where or When....Anita Shreve £1.99
paper back
Fox Evil.....Minette Walters £2.99
Hard back
All authors who's previous books I've read, and know I'll enjoy, quite a bargin I thought!!!!

I second The Works - loads of great bargains. Also any charity shop, and have you tried the library? - they're always selling off old stock - fiction paperbacks in our local library go for about 25p! Bargain And you can get parenting/pregnancy old stock sometimes for 50p too.

Be careful and read the small print on Amazon.....it recently cost me £18 for p and p and I was furious!! I thought that because they had books from the marketplace that were cheaper that it was a better bargain but i should have realised that you dont get something for nothing and they slammed me on the postage! Grrrrr.

my fil has a second hand bookshop with over 35,000 books. If there is anyhting that anyone wnats and they are struggling to get hold of it let me know and I'll go and have a rummage!

I'll put my vote in for "The Works" too! Also "Banana Books" but I don't know if they are a chain or just in our local Macarthur Glen outlet.

Have you tried charity shops. When I have enough spare pennies and a few spare minutes I pop into the local charity shops. I managed to get a whole bunch of Anita Shreve and Joanne Harris books for between 50p - £1! And they are usually in really good condition. I have also stocked ds twins library full from my charity shop finds, especially old Ladybird books that are more for my nostalgia than for their benefit!

I also found some really good parenting books in the charity shops, again I don't think I paid more than £1.50 and that was for Toddler Taming.