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This is great if the inventory is there. I don't mind paying an extra couple dollars for a book; for me the reason I return time, and time again to Amazon is because I can reasonable expect to search for a book and have it ordered in less than five minutes.

Recently I have become more interested in buying used books online, and had success ordering from https://www.betterworldbooks.com/ and https://www.thriftbooks.com/.

I'll check this out if I am looking for something new.



Better World Books (owned by the non profit Better World Libraries) partners with the Internet Archive FYI.

http://blog.archive.org/2019/11/06/for-the-love-of-literacy-...


I've been a fan for a very long time of getting to all of these sites through https://used.addall.com

It's a very good used book meta-search engine that sorts by price and condition, and includes specific notes from the merchant in the results page. I went through computer science/engineering in college using it, and one semester managed to get one-off editions of all of my books for less than $20 total.

Using it also ends up getting you acquainted with a lot of online used booksellers. It also includes Amazon, but you start to notice that a lot of the specific copies of books on Amazon are actually also being sold by the same sellers on friendlier or their own platforms, and when they're on Amazon they're often marked up to cover the Amazon tax.


Maybe its aimed at fiction, but I just looked for the last 5 books I purchased from amazon to see what increase I'd be looking at and they had none of them.


check out discoverbooks.com - the cheapest used book site i’ve found. by far

sold books as cheap as like $2 and with free shipping




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