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 Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 7:09 am
So..... I went to half priced bookstore yesterday, about a half hour before closing and got to new books. I finished Peter (230pg) in 3 hours.
So...discuse
--Halfpricebooks or HPB
--Locking in yourself in your room for long hours of time
--Reading for 3 hours straight
--Finishing books quickly.
(I'm new here so if this is the wrong forum....)
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Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:07 am
I love Half-Price Books. Could browse there for hours! My husband and I used to go to Barnes & Noble and Borders to hang out for a few hours and we'd always split at the door - he'd go off one direction and I'd go off another. Sometimes I'd find a book and become completely engrossed in it.
I wish I had time to read for 3 hours straight, but I just don't anymore. Still, I'm trying to set my goal at 50 pages a day. For the last few months, I've not read hardly at all, so I'm trying to get back into it.
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Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 3:02 pm
I enjoy going to stores like that because of the bargains. There was a place like that close to the mall that I never got around to visiting until the week before they closed. By that time all hardcover books were marked to $2 each so I ended up getting two that interested me.
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Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:58 pm
.. I love the smell of old books! Nothing beats it! Then there are the times when you buy about 5 books in one go.. and they're finished withing the week! Love it!
I think books and Rusty Nails go together.. Who agrees?
I hope you all know what a Rusty Nail is..
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Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 2:47 pm
I heart discount bookstores!
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Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 6:56 pm
I love discount bookstores when I can get to them. But more often, I have to content myself with garage sales. You can get some great stuff there too, though. I found some of my best-loved books that way.
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Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 11:27 am
I love places that have books at discounted prices. In fact, there's a store right around where I live that sells all books in the store at 60% off. whee I made my mom take me there on the day it opened, and we stayed until they were ready to close... Now I ask her to take me whenever she can. (I wanted so badly to work there...But I'm still not old enough, since the store doesn't hire until 18...
Whenever I have nothing better to do, I read for hours on end, especially when the book is really interesting (I read the sixth Harry Potter book without getting up - it took me six hours or so).
I also finish my books fairly quickly. In fact, people often come up to me during school and ask how many books I read in a week, since I always seem to have a different book in hand... I can't help the fact that I read fast, though. (It does tend to get annoying, however, when we're stuck reading together as a class, and I'm already done with the story...That's also why I hate audio-books.)
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Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 5:12 am
I really enjoy used-book stores for two reasons, the deals, and sometimes they're the only places that still carry some of the titles i look for.
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Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 3:29 pm
I love books. However going to booksales and garage sales in my town sucks because the books are normally all romance or western. I did however once pick up a psycho sexual thriller novel called X.Y. from my very bible thumping neighbors at their garage sale. Was an awesome book.
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Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 12:14 pm
Obsidian-Nightfire I love books. However going to booksales and garage sales in my town sucks because the books are normally all romance or western. I did however once pick up a psycho sexual thriller novel called X.Y. from my very bible thumping neighbors at their garage sale. Was an awesome book. I donated some books like that to a church yard sale last year. blaugh I got rid of so many old, unwanted books that way, but now I kind of wished that I would have saved them and then I could have taken them to a used bookstore and gotten store credit to purchase more titles. ninja
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Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 10:07 pm
I love shopping at used book stores. Occasionally I have to pay a bit more than half price, but in those cases it is worth every penny due to the fact that once I get interested in a series or author and I've read and obtained all of their books in the American editions, I try to go for British editions and non-english editions in the foreign languages I've taken (French and Japanese). Only one used bookstore gets them in occasionally, and I refuse to shop on line for books unless it's something really hard to find.
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