ronniejacobs
Gold Member
a great site i go on is readitswapit.co.uk just join up, list your books you have read that you dont want anymore and you can request books you like on there i have swaped over 400 books in 3 years it saves me tons
So, what are you lot reading?
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I have read Pride and Prejudice so many times! But my favourite Jane Austen novel is Persuasion. I found an audio book on cassettes (remember those!!) of Persuasion, read by Anna Massey, in a charity shop for just a few pounds, and I listen to it if I have drive a long distance. It is such a wonderful story.
I like Emma, too.
Actually, I haven't read any Jane Austen for ages - must rummage on the shelves and find her again!!
Just had a look at their website and it looks really interesting. I have far too many books that I won't ever read again.
Thanks very much for this information!
ronniejacobs
Gold Member
no probs its been a long time since i have actually bought a book full price lol
ebay/amazon are really good as well
They certainly are - also I use Abebooks a lot.
AbeBooks Official Site - New & Secondhand Books, New &Used Textbooks, Rare & Out of Print Books
They act as a sort of clearing house for second hand booksellers all over the UK - and indeed all over the world - and it is great for finding obscure books. My sister got a paperback novel sent to her from a bookseller in New Zealand - she had been looking for it for years. And I bought a lovely old book which had been privately published in Broadway (UK!) in 1911, and which I had only seen once in a museum, from a bookseller in Rhode Island, USA, for a very reasonable price.
Beware, though - it can be addictive!!
NewSlimmerMe
Full Member
It's also worth having a look to see if there is a book crossing zone near you. I have one in my local Starbucks and it's brill. Basically you can register books on the BC website and it gives them a tracking number and you can leave them anywhere, benches, parks, etc. People then go online and say that they have "caught" the book and you can track it where it goes. Pretty nifty idea. But to save you having to stumble across them there are Official Book Crossing Zones (OBCZ) where there is usually a book shelf & people drop books off in quantity and you can add to them too.
Google book crossing for exact details
Google book crossing for exact details
Support your public library - before someone decides that no-one reads books any more and turns it into an internet cafe!!
I have just looked in the bag in which I keep my library books and totted up the cover prices - there's over £150 worth of books in there!!
And I am not paying anything for them - well, in a way I am because I pay my council tax.
If I don't like a book, I don't feel I have to finish it because I have paid for it - back it goes. And I get the latest novels in hardback - don't have to wait until they come out in paperback.
Seriously - use it or lose it. Some councils would just love the excuse to close down their libraries and sell off that valuable real estate! Luckily I live in Reading which has an excellent library service and a council committed to it.
I have just looked in the bag in which I keep my library books and totted up the cover prices - there's over £150 worth of books in there!!
And I am not paying anything for them - well, in a way I am because I pay my council tax.
If I don't like a book, I don't feel I have to finish it because I have paid for it - back it goes. And I get the latest novels in hardback - don't have to wait until they come out in paperback.
Seriously - use it or lose it. Some councils would just love the excuse to close down their libraries and sell off that valuable real estate! Luckily I live in Reading which has an excellent library service and a council committed to it.
NewSlimmerMe
Full Member
*puts hand up* I'm a local library supporter
Happy Holidays
Gold Member
I get all my audio books from my local library.
i generally can not find the books that I like but when I have finished I give my books as a donetation to the library so someone else can read them (polish me halo )
)*puts hand up* I'm a local library supporter
Brilliant!!!!
I get all my audio books from my local library.
Another library person!! Hooray!!
Welsh Chick
Member
Good book! I finished that one a few weeks ago.
ronniejacobs
Gold Member
finished carole smith, now The Beach House by Jane Green
Cobweb
Full Member
I just finished reading One Day by David Nichols which follows the lives of two people that met the day they graduated in the late 80s, and each chapter is the same date the following year. I laughed all the way through, with a few pauses for tears, but I could not put it down.
atchonblimp21
Full Member
Have Finished The Emperor series by Conn Iggulden and starting the ghengis khan series he wrote....absolute genius...completely addicted
so addicting I am actually missing The Emperor Series, I want to read it again lol
so addicting I am actually missing The Emperor Series, I want to read it again lol
