What's your favorite place to go pick up new material, /lit/?
amazon
My local hip, independently owned book store.
>>7525250
I give it a few years before it goes bankrupt
>>7525250
ive been there, you live in denton anon?
I pay attention to bookshelves in films. Then, I Google those titles and if I like the synopsis I go on to buy them online (wherever it's the cheapest).
>>7525250
All the indie bookstores around me have shit selections. All genre fiction, self improvement, and cookbooks.
>>7525394
Right outside Denton, still in Denton county.
>>7525421
The one I visit has an incredible selection, all at dirt cheap prices.
>>7525785
What do you mean intimidating?
>>7525686
That picture makes me anxious. Bookstores are a safe refuge for me, a refuge of being amongst books and not talking to people.
I would feel so nervous if I was in a bookstore and a girl that pretty smiled at me.
>I'd instantly pretend I was in the wrong section and go somewhere else, my insides spaghetti inside me
>>7525790
i never know where to start looking when i go in and i feel like an ass when i have that "lost" look on my face
>>7525795
Yeah I see what you mean. Recycled books is always full of a bunch of college kids, most aren't even interested in books. Just today I was over there to pick up Ulysses, I knew exactly where it was and it was the only book I was getting so I expected it to go real quick, in and out. But no, a group of college chicks decided to have social hour right in front of the Jame Joyce books and I couldn't muster up the courage to ask them to move. Ended up wait 15 mins until they left.
This other time I was there some good looking grills asked me to take their picture for them. So I obliged, took their picture, then they tried to start a conversation with me which caused me to sperg out and get away from them as soon as I could.
>>7525798
Literature is on the third floor, pretty much the only place where there's anything of worth aside from the non-fiction in the basement and the philosophy and religions section near the cash register
>tfw work at a independent bookstore
>tfw get 30% off on everything and sometimes shitty fiction novels for free
Why don't you have a job at a bookstore anon? Is it because you are pursuing higher education like a lamb led to a poisoned well?
>>7526162
My sister actually works at a Half Price Books. She said she'd like it if most of the customers weren't pants shitting retarded.
>>7525248
This.
>>7526168
I can definently see her point. However I live in a really trendy area so I'm confronted more with the psuedo-intellectual "Marxist" hipster type who at least know what kind of garbage they are looking for.
>>7526182
>psuedo-intellectual "Marxist" hipster type
So your average Redditor?
>>7526195
Indeed It's quite sad really. They all have a copy paste personality. The minute one of these clowns walk in I know exactly what he's gonna ask if we have aswell as what bullshit small-talk he will make with me.
>oh do you have Lenin or Marx in stock? How about (insert obscure author he knows we don't have)
>do you like the coffee shop next door? It's all natural you know I hate that Starbucks mass-produced GMO garbage man haha
Literally have had this said to me by countless different hipsters
>>7526223
The sad thing is, I used to be a marxist.
Thank God I learned about how economics actually worked.
Amazon for when I know exactly what I want. The bargain bin of my hipster bookstore when I'm not picky.
>>7525798
No one cares anon, go in and start looking
>>7525824
>But no, a group of college chicks decided to have social hour right in front of the Jame Joyce books and I couldn't muster up the courage to ask them to move. Ended up wait 15 mins until they left.
Stop being such a fucking pussy. Wade through them, sneer at them, and leave.
>>7526330
This
Does no one every retain the values and outlook they receive when reading literature or philosophy?
Why are you guys such fucking nerds?
HPB is my usual stop. Great selections, condition... I can get a barely used hardcover for $4 usually
heaven.
Chicago has great bookstores.
I generally like to buy my books in new or like-new condition, so I shop mainly on Amazon & eBay.
I love going to bookstores, but I usually end up making desultory purchases. Plus, if a used bookstore happens upon a book that's legitimately valuable, like a textbook, and they've checked the prices online, they tend to price towards the upper end.
Also this
>>7528227 .
>seminary co-op bookstore at University of Chicago and Unabridged in Boystown for new books
>Myopic in Wicker Park for used books & meeting women
ayy
>>7528216
https://www.hpb.com/stores/
>>7528249
Both are great. Although not my favorite way to look for books, I've run into some great books at Bookman's Corner.
Its pretty big and it has good prices, is the only place where i have found some Mishima.
The pirate virtual store
>>7525209
is that in austin?
went there when i visited texas this summer
got first edition mason & dixon for 3$
>>7528313
POO
HPB. the big one in dallas is on the way home from work so sometimes i kill time there if the traffic is that bad.
>>7525250
This bookstore is the best I've ever been to. Good thing it's just an hour away, when I get money I get to go there and blow it all on kool books
>>7525209
Not any place that look remotely like that. Gross.
I go to Captains Bookshelf in asheville North Carolina. I recommend anyone in the area to do the same
Half Price is cool, but you won't find what you're looking for, only something when you don't know what you're looking for.
Brattle
>tfw living in boston
>>7527910
NWHW baby been going here since i was like 5
Amazon
>>7528313
Do you live in Coyoacán? Are you enrolled in C.U.? Are you a girl?
