Why don't you buy your books from Amazon?

I don't buy books at all.

>>24455577 (OP)
I'm old enough that in like 1998 I was telling someone to look on Amazon for a book, and they had never heard of Amazon
Also that was all they sold back then

>>24455597
This

>>24455597

I ordered a biography on Pico della Mirandola for $40 over two months ago but it still hasn't been shipped.

>>24455577 (OP)
I literally do

>>24455577 (OP)
I do

>>24455577 (OP)
>>24455604
What's Amazon?

>>24455577 (OP)
I do.

>>24455577 (OP)
Cheap, new books, they come the next day or two, a massive selection. What’s not to like?

I worked there and it fucking sucks, I never buy from it either cause I don't want to give any more money to that little freak or his blow up doll wife.

I do
It's the cheapest place to buy them by far

>>24455577 (OP)
Rather just steal 'em

>>24455577 (OP)
eggman mode

>>24455577 (OP)
>>24455961
Based. I'm not buying shit from Amazon either. Shit policies, shit quality, treat their workers worse than dogs, they're awful all around. I buy secondhand or from local libraries that are not ordering from Amazon either. I'm not even losing any money from this, it's just sometimes slightly more inconvenient to find what I want.
I know my brave little boycott won't change a thing but they can absolutely go fuck themselves, I'm deeply convinced that every author deserves better than the likes of Amazon or Spotify, and I never lost anything avoiding them.

>>24456039
Yelp is reddit tier dogshit from morons--what do you know about food?
Goodreads is reddit tier dogshit from morons--what do you know about good writing?

The product reviews from Amazon have, for me, proven to be reliable

>>24455577 (OP)
I do, although I stopped for a bit in 2021-2022 as sometimes they'd put unpeelable stickers on the covers that said "Ordered with Prime" which was very obnxious as it would damage the cover/ What's more is I have never once ordered anything with Amazon Prime. This happened twice, which may not seem like a lot but it's enough to really annoy me. My copy of Cloud of Unknowing still has the fucking Prime advertising sticker plastered on its front cover.

Amzon's algorithm, although not as good as it used to be, can be seriously helpful at finding new books. When I was reading Burrough's and Celine and other 20th centurty /lit/ it began recommending me novels I'd never heard of at the time like Berlin Alexanderplatz, Petersberg. Truly great for discovering new reads, even if Bezos does want to turn me into an eternal wageslave.

>>24455660
rekt

>>24455988
They aggressively match prices when a cheaper alternative surfaces

>>24455577 (OP)
libgen is free.

>>24455577 (OP)
I do if I have to, but I try to avoid buying books at all costs.

>>24456238
Actually, Yelp is amazing for reading about your favorite restaraunts. I was reading some fat retard complaining about how the french fries at this god-tier mexican place were awful. Another lady complained that they couldn't make her spaghetti.

It's one of my favorite past times. Find your favorite local spots, sort by 1 star reviews and read the dumbest funniest retards crying

>>24455577 (OP)
100% of the time they arrive damaged so fuck them, only buy second hand now

>>24458195
>only buy second hand now
You know the previous person read that book while taking a shit right?

>>24455944
its that rainforest in brazil

>>24458436
Only boomer Americans read on the toliet; I am not American, so it's okay.

The last couple of books I got were ONLY available on amazon.

That said I still like occasionally visiting local bookshops once every couple of months, especially the used bookshop.
The used bookshop has better deals and I can see the condition of the book before I buy with my own eyes.
The big box bookstore has worse prices but a far more enjoyable shopping experience. I can browse the whole store without keywords and SEO nonsense clogging what I am looking at. Plus zero AI books whatsoever when looking at reference and instructional books. Amazon is bloated with such scam books, at least the last time I checked.

>>24455597
This person either reads significantly more literature than the average citizen, and even those that consider themselves "avid readers" by several magnitudes or nothing at all. No in between.

>>24455577 (OP)
One of my local stores sells books and icons from monasteries and give directly back to them so I order from them as often as possible

>>24455577 (OP)
>fueling the corpo nightmare
Couldn't be me.

>>24456039
>>24459277
>"AHHH I CAN HAVE ALMOST ANYTHING DELIVERED TO ME IN TWO DAYS I'M GOING INSANE"
You guys are dramatic. Amazon, for all its bad aspects, has dramatically raised the standard of convenience for 90% of the population.
>"B-but I'm not a consoomer!"
Ok, then it doesn't impact you either way if normies need their AA batteries delivered to them because they don't want to go to a store.

>>24459445
>GIVE ME CONVENIENCE OR GIVE ME DEATH

>>24455577 (OP)
This board is 50% amazon propaganda at this point. Where did we go wrong

>>24455577 (OP)
I do

For the cheapest price do an ISBN check at bookfinder.com and it's usually Amazon or Abebooks (which Amazon owns) that has the cheapest price

>>24459607
Based lad, thx so much.

>>24459445
>Ok, then it doesn't impact you either way if normies need their AA batteries delivered to them because they don't want to go to a store.

Comfort is infamously the top reason why nothing is happening or ever will

>>24458940
I rarely go to any bookstores these days, even used ones. My go-to instead is Value Village, which always manages to have way better books than 99% of the bookstores in my area. Esp. in rich neighbourhoods. Even when pickings are poor I'll still leave with at least one book; more often a stack.

>>24455577 (OP)
because billionaires have been squeezing us for every last cent
when they quit doing that, i'll quit stealing everything i can

>>24455577 (OP)
Ebay is better. You can get really nice editions of books for half the price you'd get on amazoon

>>24455577 (OP)
Flea markets are cheaper, don't include convoluted shipping pricing in Europe and have books in Finnish.

>>24459708
this

>>24455998
based patchy the book thief

>>24455577 (OP)
I'd rather go in person and see what I'm buying, I've gotten multiple misprints and smudged copies of books, and half the time they don't package them properly so they're already dented before I read them. At that point I'd rather get an actual used copy and maybe find something funny scrawled in the margins, or spend an extra 2 bucks on a copy with no blemishes.

>>24455577 (OP)
I buy them from epubdownloadfree dot com

>>24455577 (OP)
>sellers can cut and paste non-description description boilerplate
>Half-Price Books scammers

I mean, it's usually some 'independent' bookstore's online storefront anyways if you're doing due diligence. Who gives a fuck apart from risk of things getting dinged or lost in transit.

>>24455597
same. I cannot get myself to purchase anything at this point. it's all wasted money and time and not even fun.

>>24459683
Cheers :)

Because thrift stores carry Louis L'amour and Zane Grey books from the 60s-80s in good condition.

>>24458436
all the better for smelling

>dl pdf of out of obscure print book
>print your own copies
:)