Monday, January 28, 2013

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Leap Frog Follow Hop
 
What is your favorite place to go to get good deals on books? Library sales, online shopping, used book stores, etc. Share some tips!

I'm the most frugal girl ever, and I no longer have a book budget. I'm a library girl until ... just until. So here's how I get my hands on great books to read. My library has a "suggest a purchase" page. I hit that hard because once I've made my request, the book goes straight to my account once they make the purchase. If I fall in love with it and must own it because I will read it again and again, then I add the title to my birthday and Christmas wish list. If I can't wait for that, I check out Half Price Books, or the ebook price on Amazon, sometimes-especially for new YA-the prices rock! So that's how this tightwad girly keeps her bookshelf loaded down with fantastic reads.

6 comments:

  1. I love that feature of my library too! Except I don't get notified so I have to keep an eye on the site. I also look for deals online :) Thanks for joining the hop this week!

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    1. I would be stalking the library website if the request didn't automatically drop into my account. Yikes!

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  2. I don't own that many books either, I don't have money to buy every book I want. Unless is a favorite one, I'll get one every 6 months or so.
    Although, now that I think about it, I don't remember when was the last time I bought a book I really wanted. I bought one on Saturday, but I mean before that. My friend gave me a book a couple of weeks ago, he asked me which one I wanted and he bought it for me.

    Rivie @ Bookshelf

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    1. I have my eye on a few new releases this year. If they knock my socks off, I'm tapping into my Amazon gift card.

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  3. I can honestly say I haven't seen the inside of the library for a very long time. I am really bad about returning them so I quit going. I have had to find inventive ways to get the books I really want.

    Liss@ out of the bags

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    1. I was like that too! Most libraries have the option to check out ebooks online, which have an expiration date instead of a due date. You don't have to worry about fines or anything. I read I am number four and Firelight via library ebook (to name a couple).

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