[bksvol-discuss] Re: cheap books
- From: Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 22:40:32 -0700 (PDT)
I got lots a few years back at bookliquidators.com, but now get store excess
lots from another mom at a recycle station and eBay and Amazon. Goodwill and
FOL are also great ideas as well as posting on freecycle.
Valerie
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From: Chela Robles <cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thu, June 7, 2012 11:21:09 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: cheap books
Also half.com and I think Valerie Maples mentioned books liquidators or
something like that, it escapes my mind. If I come across any good sites with
cheap books, I'll post here.
On 6/7/2012 9:17 PM, Roger Loran Bailey wrote:
> I don't have much problem navigating Amazon myself and I use JAWS. They have
> an
>access site, but I think the regular site is accessible enough and the access
>site doesn't have all the information that the regular site does. It might
>help
>you to use your H and number row keys to navigate quickly to headings. For
>example, when I got to the page for a certain book and I want to look at
>product
>details like the ISBN or number of pages the first thing I do when the page
>opens is to press the 1 key. That takes me to the title and author of the
>book.
>I then press the 2 key to skip from heading level 2 until I reach the the
>product details section. Anyway, another place to get cheap books is eBay. I
>think you can actually get them the very cheapest there. However, to get books
>for only a few pennies you have to buy a lot and you have to buy them all at
>once. I am talking about the wholesale lots category under the books category.
>The drawback is that you may have to spend a lot of money all at once even
>though the per book price is very cheap. In the off line world there are
>Goodwill stores. The last time I checked them out they were selling used books
>in my area for a quarter apiece. Then there are the FOL sales. That is,
>Friends
>of Libraries which have fund raising sales of books. Oftentimes they will have
>a
>weekend sale and the books will be quite cheap anyway, but on the last day of
>the sale they will do what amounts to a clearance sale. That is, they will
>give
>everyone who comes in a bag and you go in and fill the bag with books. You
>then
>might be charged a dollar for each full bag. The real problem with buying bulk
>lots, though, is getting a lot of books that are already in the Bookshare
>collection and at a FOL sale you might have a hard time picking and choosing
>if
>you are blind. Nevertheless, you might want to consider some of these ideas
>and
>try to think of ways that you can adapt them to your own situation, By the
>way,
>if you do figure out a way to adapt the suggestions to your own situation you
>might post your ideas here and it might help others in acquiring books.
>
> On 6/7/2012 11:33 PM, Dornetta wrote:
>> Hey guys,
>> Since I been on the list some of yall have listed several venues to get
>> "cheap books". I have listed the ones that I can recall off hand below:
>> Thrift Books
>> Paperback Swap
>> and the lates Book Mooch
>> Are there any others. I am NOT a user of Amazon since I find navigating that
>> website extremely difficult with JAWS at times but am open to any
>> suggestions on navigating the site. Any and all info concerning "cheap
>> books" and Amazon are welcomed.
>> Thanks,
>> Netta
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