As if I didn't have enough of a problem with books...

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Half Price Books opened near the mall I go to.

I spent close to an hour there tonight. Got me a buncha Dilbert books I'm sure are now out of print.

[Bandit]

Half Price Books opened near the mall I go to.

I spent close to an hour there tonight. Got me a buncha Dilbert books I'm sure are now out of print.

Ah Dilbert - the very first website I visit at work every day, ever since it came on line back in the '90s.

Having worked for Monster Mega Telco/Bank Inc, I can tell you that it's NOT fiction.

B

[Becks]

I *lust* after Half Price Books.

[lupo pazzesco]

I'm going to a HPB tomorrow.

[pssorens]

I miss my old half-price books in Kansas City very badly.

[RootedPhoenix]

Bookstores of all kinds are dangerous. I have yet to see this Half Price Books, though. Is it a used bookstore?

[AdminAssistant]

RP, yes. It's a chain of used bookstores, and their selection is fantastic. I get TONS of good theatre books there. It's one of the few bookstores that realizes that other people besides Shakespeare wrote plays.

pssorens, the HPB in Westport is the source for close to half of the books I now own. Crazy. Luckily there's one here too, but it's a bit smaller.

[Sliceanddice]

i know there half price books not to far from me but ive never been there in arizona theirs bookmens..... i love book mens.... i would live there if i could

[RootedPhoenix]

RP, yes. It's a chain of used bookstores, and their selection is fantastic.

Do you hear that? That's the sound of my wallet sobbing.

I...spend entirely too much money in such places (and time!...oh the time....!). A good share of my current book collection came from the Bookery, a used bookstore near my parents house.

I'll have to see if Half Price Books is out here. They sound awesome.

ETA: Closest one's in Berkeley. I suppose I can sort out a trip there. (I've got family in the area.) I'll start saving up now.

[LibraryLady]

Oooh, Irv, let the old lady rock in her chair and reminisce about the days of cheap books.

It was the big-bad 70s in NYC. Crime was rampant. The city was on the verge of bankruptcy but there were plenty of cheap books available.

A friend and I were both devotees of a particular Irish author. He grew livid when he discovered that the books he was importing at premium prices from a bookseller in Dublin could be found for 99 cents at a basement book store on 23rd Street.

At the time, I was only clearing about 114 USD a week but almost every day there was a new book in my bag. My body may have been living on beans, rice and pasta but my mind was richly fed. In some ways, those were the good old days.

[sms001]

Oooh, Irv, let the old lady rock in her chair and reminisce about the days of cheap books.

I always get a quiet chuckle when a used paperback book's price sticker is right next to the original sale price:

$2.25 --> .35

[Elspeth]

oh Half Price books, yeah I am not allowed there with the wallet. Bad things happen.

This is worse

http://friendsofspl.org/booksale.aspx

Imagine a hanger full of cheap books! Last time I went I brought home about
50lbs of books. Hubby says I can't do that again

Though I am thinking of going.

[Rapscallion]

A friend and I were both devotees of a particular Irish author. He grew livid when he discovered that the books he was importing at premium prices from a bookseller in Dublin could be found for 99 cents at a basement book store on 23rd Street.

Interesting. I'd have thought the fact that he was actually paid on book sales would have helped salve his aching pride, unless he was paid on final price?

Rapscallion

[JoitheArtist]

I haven't checked to see if there's a HPB in my area. I'm broke enough as it is.

Seriously, it's not unusual for me to order 2-3 books a week on Amazon Marketplace.

On Mondays when I go to my counselor, there's an hour between the time I get off work and the time my appointment starts. After fighting the freeway traffic, I usually have 20-30 minutes to kill. There's a Barnes & Noble right next door to my therapist's office. Siiiiiiiiiiigh. *wallet breaks*

But I had to have that last book! It was about modern day West Virginian coal miners, getting transported into Germany during the Thirty Years War! I HAD to read it!! Really!

[dalesys]

But I had to have that last book! It was about modern day West Virginian coal miners, getting transported into Germany during the Thirty Years War! I HAD to read it!! Really!

Joi, very bad choice for an addict... There are currently 28 books in that series...
And I have them all

Evil books are the Baen of my life.

... a moustache that wouldn't have looked out of place on the back of a Shetland Pony...