Is there anyway to buy books in bulk? I would say the average book is 10 bucks, so if I wanted to buy, say, 10 books, that's 100 bucks before tax. It's getting less and less feasible for me. Yeah, the library exists, but I like to make notes in my books and re-read them and have them with me forever, you know? I wish that, for say, 50 dollars, you could buy all the works of a certain author. That seems very reasonable to me. I used to go to book fairs, but it was always bullshit nobody wanted to read. The last one I went to was literally just 50 Tom Clancy/James Patterson thrillers and 200 Cookbooks.

Go to used book stores

>>24625163
Good idea, thanks

>>24625172
Why didn't you Google this anon? If this was all you wanted?

>>24625172
With inflation they are as the regular book stores were, and the new book stores are book tok starbucks hellscapes + Brandon Sanderson

>>24625237
The Ethiopian Book of Mormon is a good read

>>24625228
Well, I also wanted some more suggestions because I like getting new books too...and the half-price books near me doesn't have the greatest selection unfortunately.

I also suggest non-speciality stores with used books, by which I mean places which aren't specifically used book stores. For example here in Canada there are thrift shops and some libraries have small stores in them. In these places things are usually arbitrarily priced, say 2$ for paperbacks, 4$ for hardcovers or whatever. The trade-off of course is that there's a lot more garbage and you have to be willing to browse and dig so that maybe you get lucky and find something decent.

Generally:
Used book stores: better selection, higher prices
Random shops: worse selection, lower prices

This may vary depending on where you live but try google searching "[city name] book sale". In my city there are various annual book sales hosted at public schools and libraries where the donations are from the community. You can find some really good stock for great prices, but I recommend showing up early to beat resellers.

>>24625245
You should buy the Joseph Smith inspired version of the Bible

>>24625143 (OP)
seriously digital is the way

see also -
annas archive
colchester collection
oceanofpdf

>>24625143 (OP)
>way
yes go to any public library
at the door they usually have racks of stuff nobody wants very cheap
also go to 1/2 price books and tell them you want books by the pound

>>24625143 (OP)
preparing for bookshelf thread eh?
no one on lit reads and people with full bookshelves dont either, thank you for adding to my evidence

>>24625143 (OP)
I feel you, anon.
Every time I am in a bigger city I search for used book stores, because the only one in my city makes me sad and doesn't offer much. That is probably the only good way.
You may also hope that you find certain publishers that publish books for cheap. These are mostly collected works, but they are cheap. One publisher in my country sells good collection of works from well known authors (600 - 1000 pages) for about 10 or 13 Euros. Quality is pretty solid too.
There are also some publishers that print their books in Poland. Generally very cheap but very bad quality. They were able to print Machiavellis the Prince on like 20 pages. That book is bigger than a magazine and the font size gotta be 5 or some shit. But it is still readable and cheap.

>>24625143 (OP)
There are literally places that sell “books by the foot”.
Generally, the books are used by Hollywood and stage designers to fill up sets, also by interior designers to fill up bookshelves.
Usually, you don’t get to choose titles, but sometimes you can choose general subject, or certain soecific publishers, as well as paperback or hardback, size, spine color. Etc.

>>24625143 (OP)
Others have suggested used book stores, but I also highly recommend library book sales. The books are often older, perhaps many are of poorer quality as well, in the latter, but the prices are unmatched. For example, every book at a library sale cost me $1 to buy, whereas the used bookstore I frequent sells books at 30%, up to 95%, of the original price.

>>24625143 (OP)
Maybe an estate sale?
You never know, they might have a carboard box full of books.

thrift store literature sections, sometimes fiction sections if the employees are retarded

>>24625143 (OP)
ebooks are the cheapest and easiest way to get everything you want. You can wait for deep sales or just pirate them. Most of them have built in note taking capabilities. There isn't any easy bulk buying option aside from wishlisting what you want to read on Amazon and waiting for a sale. You should finish the unread books you have lying around your house before fantasizing about ways to buy more books though