Buying books
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Apart from Steve Jobs - who doesn't read anymore -, what do you think?
1. Are you buying more or less books (books in general - not just design/professional readings)?
2. If more, are you buying from large publishers or small independant ones, over the internet or in specifically taylored book-shops for a genre or style, etc.
3. If less, what were or are you're preferable buying spots.
(This question has been intriguing me for a while, and since creating a book-shop -physically or online- is something which may interest me in the near future, I'd appreciate the opinion of the folks in this board.)
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- Ruffian0
About the same. Some bought, some borrowed, some stolen.
- flashbender0
I'm buying a bit - I find the more I work, the less time I want to be near a computer in my free time so reading has increased.
Publishers don't really matter to me but I do tend to frequent the independent local shops in my neighborhood. I buy online only when I can not find what I want at the local.
- JackRyan0
1: More
2: Large and smaller publishers. Local book store, borrow some.
- Cultr0
1. I'm buying slightly more *new* books, but that is more / less because of increased salary. I'm also buying a lot more used books from used bookstores... one of my favorite things to do.
2. I try to do most of my new book shopping at the Tattered Cover (Denver). They are local, independent, and don't censor or refuse to carry certain titles. And Eggers is going to be speaking here next Monday! :D
I do have a wish list going at Amazon as well, but I haven't made any purchases there yet this year.- www.tatteredcover.co…...
like flashbender, if I can't find it local I'll resort to AmazonCultr - http://www.tatteredc…
So you use their website to keep in touch w/ latest ed but prefer to buy "phisically"?******** - posted the url for reference, I catch up on new releases and buying physically, at the store. Lots of tables and desks to sit at for hours and hoursCultr
- I see, thanks.********
- www.tatteredcover.co…...
- jasontroj0
1. More than I did before, but I also can finally afford the books that I like. I would say a few a month. Most of the one's for "reading" are about environmental issues. Some art books when I can decide that I really like one. Cookbook here and there.
2. Depends. I buy from both. I really need to be in love with an art book before to buy it.
Question 3 applies to both, and I'll say wherever I can get the best deal. Sometimes I'll take photos of a book I see in person and then look it up online for the best deal.
- 2. Why do they have to be so expensive?!?!Cultr
- more colours, bigger format - heavier fares for weightier distribution. Distributors take the most of 1 book price.********
- That's why most indy shops are trying to use e-comm - but when it comes to certain books people really like to handle...********
- ...them before buying. In art books, when the format itself is under consideration, we like to get our hands on it first.********
- ********0
Interesting responses so far. I take it people (..er, people as in like 6 responses) still prefer the physical relation to buying a book.
- TheBlueOne0
More. Buy from wherever. Big publisher, small...
Fuck Steve Jobs. He wants to turn us all into Techno-Proletariat-Consumers who will OOOO and AAAAH and whatever shiny widgets his nerdboy company throws onto the market.
- Jaline0
I mainly read for school, so it's stuff that's in the canon.
Oh, and Harry Potter. Plus some graphic novels.
I really don't read as much as I used to.
- TeganTorch0
I listen to audiobooks at work.
...and I guess I "read" in my "free" time. Usually I get my books wherever is cheapest...
- typotron0
i read all the time. old books new books, red books blue books.
- landock0
i'm reading more and getting most of my books from local thrift stores because I'm poor.
- kalkal0
I've never really gotten into reading fiction. I hated it at school and now it's not being forced on me, I don't really think about it. I do feel like I'm somehow missing out when you're talking to someone about a movie and they're all like "The book was so much better!" though. I also feel like punching them.
- Not trying to push you or anything, but the thing is books are usually much more interesting than film.********
- why? because words are much better for description than an image. A story in a book is always "better" than in film.********
- But I enjoy the visuals so much. And if you say the visuals are in your head, I will want to punch you too!kalkal
- punch me not - but books are better :P********
- I like books and films, but I think I like films more because it takes less time to consume them. However, books are richer (mostly).Jaline
- more rich, usually. You can visualize everything and create worlds on your own. However, some cinematography is great.Jaline
- I think films are easier to understand. A book, for the same film, takes more time to grasp. well it depends too.********
- but it's the story that counts. film or text, it somewhat depends on the value of the interpreter/reader.********
- Not trying to push you or anything, but the thing is books are usually much more interesting than film.
- Llyod0
read this
- What's it about? I can't quite figure where you're coming from right now.********
- What's it about? I can't quite figure where you're coming from right now.
- Nathan_Adams0
I can't remember the last time I picked up a novel to read.
- mg330
If there are any books that I buy regularly, especially if they're on sale or a good by, would be WWII books or Architecture books. Taschen especially for arch books.
I have a pretty decent collection of D-Day and Pacific battles related books. I think it's a fading history for the younger generation. War history fascinates me, WWII especially. My grandfather fought at Iwo Jima (Purple Heart), Guam, and Bouganville. I don't read these books too much now but I like having them to know they'll be there in the future to read.
- that's the purpose of books i guess: meaning something and being there.I agree w/ you.********
- that's the purpose of books i guess: meaning something and being there.I agree w/ you.
- utopian0
just the books that I am in.
