[bookshare-discuss] Re: Affordable Books
- From: "Cindy Deren" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:14:22 -0500
Dear Natalie, Monica and Everyone,
Natalie, I'll mail you books for free for scanning and you won't have to
return them. Contact me off list at
airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
My selection definitely is limitless, but I'd try and find books that
interested you.
My favorite source for books is library book sales. Recently I bought about
60 books for a quarter each. Trouble is I was guessing as to what might not
already be in the collection. When I got home, I had a fine time checking
the collection and about 45 weren't there and the others will just be
donated back to a library for resale. The volunteers at the sales help me
find books when I tell them what might interest me. For example, I usually
say, mystery, poetry, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, novels, biography. and the
names of favorite authors I judge might not have been scanned yet.
My second favorite place to shop is Amazon where I always buy used books and
have only been disappointed with one purchase of all the orders I've placed
with the Z shops.
I'm fortunate to have a friend who has a shop on Amazon which is how I'm
able to travel with her to the library sales and to one of my favorite
stores on earth, the Half Price Bookstore. I also buy bargain books from
Barnes and Noble and Borders with staff who help me search.
At the last sale I found an old edition of Penrod by Booth Tarkington. I
loved that story when NLS sent it to me in braille when I was in 6th grade.
When I got it home I found not only that it was already in the collection,
but that Bookshare has the sequel. I never new there was a sequel to that
wonderful story of a spunky American lad set in the early years of the
twentieth century. Big bonus!!
I love being in the presence of books. It's as if Bookshare came to the
rescue. If I hadn't discovered it just at the time my last abilities to see
print left me, I'd have become a broken-hearted being in despair. Bookshare
reinvented books making them more attainable now than they were when my
partial vision allowed me to trudge through them word by word, slowly and at
the cost of a major headache after every session of reading a few pages.
Gotta put a lid on my enthusiasm! Time to pour my energy into getting my
validation gears reconfigured and moving.
Always With Love,
Lissi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Natalie" <lemina007@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 8:25 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Affordable Books
> Monica,
>
> I totally love half.com. I buy most of my used books from there. Though,
I'm
> not sure if I'll do so much in the future. They raised the shipping price,
> so even a seventy-five cent book used or new will cost you $4.00. Ouch, in
> my opinion.
> Swapping books is also one way of getting other books. My sister and her
> friend know I scan, so they often give me their books when they're done
with
> them. Or, I was doing this until recently. I met a woman online who would
> subscribe to a Harlequin line, and when she was done with her books, she
> would sell them to me for one-third of the price, plus shipping. It was
> awesome. Sadly, she canceled her subscription, so I'm back to buying them
> full-price at the bookstore.
>
> Aloha,
> Natalie
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Monica" <plumlipstick@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 11:41 AM
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Affordable Books
>
>
> > Hi. I'm curious to know where most of you like to get the books you
scan.
> > Do most of you use a print library, or do you buy your books? Do any of
> > you belong to one of the online book of the month clubs?
> >
> > I like to buy used books to scan. I have bought several books from
Amazon
> > sellers. Today I just received my first book from half.com . You can
buy
> > used books, textbooks, and movies from the site. It's owned by Ebay,
but
> > you don't bid on the items there. You just buy them like if you went to
a
> > large garage sale. Even with the cost for shipping, I can usually buy a
> > book for half the price of a new one. The paperback I got today cost me
a
> > total of $5.50, and it's in like new condition. Amazon wants $10.98 for
a
> > new copy, and that doesn't include shipping.
> >
> > On that note, I'm off to scan my new book. <grin>
> >
> >
> > Monica
> > Visit my blog at: http://plumlipstick.livejournal.com
> >
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