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Thrift books dot com. Free shipping in the US for a crapton of used books, mostly dead cheap. You can get better deals at brick and mortar used book stores, but without the ease of online searching got many older books I couldn't get elsewhere, including a copy of the Hobbit that actually has the cover I wanted.

Thrift books is good. If you want new-condition books, especially fairly recent stuff, you want remainder houses like Edward R. Hamilton. My parents have been ordering from their catalogs for longer than I've been alive (and I'm 26 next week). They used to be able to differentiate between the handwritings of the various employees who would write on the packing slips. We sometimes wonder if they get our bimonthly huge eclectic orders and go, "Oh look, it's the weird people in California again!" They also used to not have an actual street address, it was just "Edward R. Hamilton Booksellter, Falls Village CT 06031" as if their giant warehouse of books were the only thing IN Falls Village CT.

Anyway, great source for cheap nonfiction (we've gotten SO much military history stuff from them in particular), although they also have fiction (good mystery section), and dvds too. Also lots of DIY books but we tend to not order those.

Daedalus Books is also a good remainder house. There's overlap, but Daedalus has more music (CDs) than the Hamiltons, and usually just a good arts/music books selection.

... our bimonthly huge eclectic orders...

That is so cool!

It reminds me of how I once described the holidays I used to have with my parents to a friend: "We drive to a town & hit the second hand bookshops."

We went to Reno 4 or 5 years back for an SF convention. After a token game of nickle slots and keno just to say we did gamble, my mom and I left the casinos in favor of the thrift stores and used bookstores. I came back with a vintage Betsey Johnson blazer, and a small stack of paperbacks (plays and novels). My mom found several Broadway souvenir programs from the '70s-'80s at under $2 each.

It's great when you get home wth your haul :-)

My parents loved thrift stores too (we call them charity shops here in the UK). Sadly, my parents have passed away, but our book and bargain hunts are some of my best memories.

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