Where do you lot but your books these days? (19)

I do use the second hand section of Amazon and have gone direct to Abe and Thrift books on a couple of occasions.

If in person it tends to be in the local Waterstone (mainly because it's right next to the big bus stop in town) or at ASDA (because the book aisle is the first aisle as you go into the local store).

When I was younger I used to haunt to local bookstore but one the prices were awful, the staff were uninformed and rude and the stock (and how the stock is laid out) was in a word - crap - it's only got worse with time - I went in the other day and was deeply disappointed.

Actually one of my dreams is to have a bookstore - a bit like the Shop Around the Corner in You've Got Mail but perhaps a bit more adult based.

Are you thinking about reopening or perhaps having an online side?

Come to the darkside - we have cookies...

Or from Amazon.

I have to admit that I find places like waterstones soulless and they are over priced and wrong.

*shudders*

I have found places like WH smiths although again soulless have good deals in fact I think before last year I spent a lot of time in WH Smith looking at books.

I have always wanted a book store as well. Something like in black books.

Adama: What do you hear, Starbuck?
Starbuck: Nothing but the rain, sir.
Adama: Then get your gun, and bring the cat in.
Starbuck: Aye-aye, sir.

Waterstones is part of the HMV Group; formerly it was owned by WH Smith. Amazon is quite the empire too; it bought up AbeBooks a while back, among other things. So they're about as soulful as one might expect.

That's not to say I don't use them, but let me at least put a word in for Scarthin Books, which I like to visit when in Derbyshire.

'They weren't dreams like ours (in the midst of the darkness, we dreamed of more darkness, because nothing else came into our minds); no, she dreamed - from what we could understand of her ravings - of a darkness a hundred times deeper and more various and velvety.' (Qfwfq)

Sometimes I visit 2nd hand bookshops or charity shops, especially if searching for out of print books, or am out somewhere without a book and bored.

I don't think I've ever brought a book from Amazon. And I've stopped using w*terst*nes, mainly after they closed my local one down and left my area without a bookshop (until the independent opened up).

Well you bit my lip and drew first blood /And warmed my cold, cold heart
And your wrote your name right on my back/ Boy your nails were sharp
Don't stop /Honey don't stop

School bazaars and summer fetes and car boot sales are all good places to find books.

Amazon I use occasionally, and Waterstones quite a lot, as it is my nearest bookstore, and the staff are lovely and very well informed.

I do tend to find that because people know that I love books, they give me books. Which is nice

Been meaning to join our local library, but to my shame, I've not yet got 'round to it.

I want a bookshop, too

Now that B has a Kindle, things may change - he got a download of "Never let me go" for us.. Lovely man! But it's going to be difficult as he's reading Bill Bryson on it.

sometimes life makes me so cross. the name should be curvy_top!