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Posted: Oct 15 2006 at 11:44am | IP Logged Quote Mary G

Hey, y'all -- when the moterhboard fried on my computer, I lost all my bookmarked favorites for online sites.

What are your favorite used book resources -- there was one I used to check all the time, and I just can't remember what it was called

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Posted: Oct 15 2006 at 12:54pm | IP Logged Quote Jen L.

I always go to

the Meta-search site: bookfinder

Also,

ebay

hallf.com

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Amazon (which sometimes shows up on bookfinder but sometimes I get more hits going straight to Amazon)

Hope this helps...

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Posted: Oct 15 2006 at 5:15pm | IP Logged Quote jdostalik

I find a lot at the ones Jen mentioned above but if there is an especially hard-to-find title that amazon or bookfinder doesn't have, abebooks.com usually has a copy and they also have a way to register titles for email notification if one becomes available...

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Posted: Oct 15 2006 at 5:28pm | IP Logged Quote JennGM

jdostalik wrote:
I find a lot at the ones Jen mentioned above but if there is an especially hard-to-find title that amazon or bookfinder doesn't have, abebooks.com usually has a copy and they also have a way to register titles for email notification if one becomes available...


Bookfinder does search Abebooks, but the email notification is nice. See this list[.url"> for all the places to search.

One other metasearch similar to bookfinder is
AddAll, which can search both used (the link) or new books.

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Posted: Oct 15 2006 at 6:25pm | IP Logged Quote Mary G

Thanks y'all -- abebooks.com was the one I couldn't think of. Alibris and some of the others seem overly expensive and won't let you take back.... for new books, I've also found overstock.com was exceptional!

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Posted: Oct 15 2006 at 7:14pm | IP Logged Quote MacBeth

How about Book Mooch? The books are free, and it works on an exchange system of points.

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Posted: Oct 15 2006 at 7:43pm | IP Logged Quote guitarnan

And don't forget PaperbackSwap; I've picked up lots of classical literature for my son this year by trading my old mystery paperbacks!

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Posted: Oct 15 2006 at 9:05pm | IP Logged Quote Mary G

MacBeth wrote:
How about Book Mooch? The books are free, and it works on an exchange system of points.


Now, I never heard of this one -- and you say it's "free" -- that's my favorite word (especially now that dh has me on a budget, a real one this time )

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Posted: Oct 15 2006 at 9:58pm | IP Logged Quote Jen L.

I know Jenn said this, but it bears reiterating.   Bookfinder is a meta search - it searches a bunch of sites and ABE is one of them. Thanks for the info on the abe email notification, Jennifer. I didn't know about that but you reminded me that half.com and ebay also have email notification. (I love the internet )

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