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What is best non-Amazon place to buy books?

Posted on 03/09/2021 5:52:38 PM PST by SamAdams76

Ditching Amazon Prime and looking for alternative websites to purchase things. For example, I now get most of my clothing directly from LL Bean.

What is a good place to buy books online? I still buy a lot of books. An obvious choice is Barnes & Noble but looking to see if there are any other book-buying websites I should be aware of.


TOPICS: Books/Literature
KEYWORDS: amazon; amazonbooks; barensandnoble; barnesandnoble; bookdealers; books; bookstores; library
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To: Robert A Cook PE

Tough answer. I hate Amazon for who I’m paying money to, but I’ve got over 812 books on my kindle? Who do I change to?”

I have a lot of books on my Kindle, too. I tried to go with Rakuten Kobo on my iPad but the font does not enlarge the way it does on the Kindle books.


61 posted on 03/09/2021 7:02:41 PM PST by angry elephant (Been with Trump since huge 2016 Washington state rally in May.)
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To: Jonty30

Amazon owns Goodreads.


62 posted on 03/09/2021 7:03:52 PM PST by SCmom
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To: SCmom

I wasn’t aware of that, buy good reads books are free.


63 posted on 03/09/2021 7:06:29 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults. )
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To: FlyingEagle

Half price books is wonderful. You could spend hours there looking at wonder full books. The Berkeley store is wonderful. But all of them - you could spend days in there looking at books.


64 posted on 03/09/2021 7:07:58 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: SamAdams76

I’ve bought from “Half Price Books” at hpb.com.


65 posted on 03/09/2021 7:08:07 PM PST by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: SamAdams76

If you’re looking for free classics, check out gutenberg.org.


66 posted on 03/09/2021 7:09:34 PM PST by randita
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To: Robert A Cook PE; SamAdams76

If you need to convert between different digital ebook types (e.g. mobi, epub, kindle, azw, pdf, doc, text), I have found Anicesoft EPUB Converter to be a handy tool.

You can do mass (folder-level) conversions. So, put all of your kindle’s into one folder and run this software!


67 posted on 03/09/2021 7:14:08 PM PST by Wish2Post
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To: dfwgator
I used to literally spend hours at Half Price Books, back in the day.

Which stores did you go to? They have wonderful books. Some of them are very valuable. I've seen dealers in their stores looking for rare books. I love looking through their shelves.

68 posted on 03/09/2021 7:15:01 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: SamAdams76

Depending on your interests, one publisher/bookseller, which has a very specialized focus involving Jewish books and videos/audios (both English and Hebrew), is

Artscroll.com

69 posted on 03/09/2021 7:19:22 PM PST by Songcraft
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

“I miss the Portland of 40 or 50 years ago, but it’s gone.”

On a lighter note, so is everything else.


70 posted on 03/09/2021 7:25:31 PM PST by Cold Heart
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To: SamAdams76

I wrote a book on Q-anon with a large section on the domestic surveillance network operating in the US. Simultaneously it was banned on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Ebay.

It was simultaneous, as if the order went out to all three at the same time.

What people don’t realize is that you do not form a multi-billion dollar business in the US. If you had the hottest idea, and implemented it perfectly, it would be taken from you by force, much as so many companies with killer apps had Microsoft roll in and just take their technology, and offer them some pittance, with the reality that if you didn’t sign it over for a pittance they would just take it.

After much study, I have concluded Bill Gates did not miraculously avoid this fate. Neither did Zuckerberg, or Bezos, or any of the others. All were approached early on, and offered the opportunity to be fronts for the massive covert intel operation which many call the Deep State, but which actually extends pretty far into the private sector as well, and which also runs neighborhood by neighborhood Stasi-like surveillance/informant networks on the public. (see http://www.anonymousconservative.com/blog/surveillance)

When the decision was made to ban my book (as many others have had happen), it went out from the top to all three major outlets, which are all under a consolidated control at the top.

So Barnes is probably as under control of the enemy as Amazon. If you want a company which is not under such control, look for any company still selling a pro-Q-anon book, as it seems all the controlled outlets were ordered to ban all of them.

Regardless of what you think of Q, it is a good measure of who is taking orders and who is free of them.


71 posted on 03/09/2021 7:28:08 PM PST by AnonymousConservative (DO NOT send me sensitive information, I am under domestic surv coverage, and they will see it too.)
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To: SamAdams76

https://www.goodwillbooks.com

ShopGoodwill.com has a store just for donated books. Prices are generally quite good, though the selection is limited.


72 posted on 03/09/2021 7:31:15 PM PST by blindsangamon
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To: SamAdams76

Thriftbooks.com still lists all the Q-books out there.

Abebooks went into their database and banned the same list as Amazon, so it is under control.


73 posted on 03/09/2021 7:31:29 PM PST by AnonymousConservative (DO NOT send me sensitive information, I am under domestic surv coverage, and they will see it too.)
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To: blindsangamon

The Dollar Store actually has good books....depending on what your taste is. And “Ollies” is full of wonderful books.


74 posted on 03/09/2021 7:33:11 PM PST by caww ("Politics is not a game, but a serious business" - Churchill)
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To: SamAdams76

Even if you don’t intend on listening to the audiobook renditions, https://librivox.org/ also links to the source material. (often times gutenberg.org) This is highly useful.

I mention this because many of the big book companies are opposed to yours/my/our viewpoint/s.

It is quite likely that you’re doing us all a service if you can get what you’re looking for for free instead of paying.


75 posted on 03/09/2021 7:44:15 PM PST by ProgressingAmerica (Public meetings are superior to newspapers)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

Yeah, once you go Kindle, hard to go back. So easy to read in bed using one hand.

Spent years culling my book collections, still have a few for some weird reason, and more than a few old textbooks.


76 posted on 03/09/2021 8:12:07 PM PST by doorgunner69 ("Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.." -Joseph Stalin)
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To: ryderann

betterworldbooks.com is my favorite.


77 posted on 03/09/2021 8:29:43 PM PST by Irenic
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To: SamAdams76

http://www.bookfinder.com


78 posted on 03/09/2021 9:02:08 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: SamAdams76

https://www.booksamillion.com/search?filter=&id=8153534997596&query=Dr+Seuss


79 posted on 03/09/2021 9:19:45 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: Robert A Cook PE

a curious question. Wondering the same.


80 posted on 03/09/2021 10:38:06 PM PST by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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