Cheap Ways to Get Trek Books Suggestions Thread

[VulcanMindBlown]

Hey guys,

I found this place to buy REALLY cheap books, including Star Trek literature online. It's called http://www.thriftbooks.com.

Can you think of any others?

 

[20fridge]

http://www.abebooks.com/
It has been really good for me, so far.

 

[ryan123450]

I get alot of my Trek books threw interlibrary loan. I just have to pay two or three bucks to have the book shipped from some other library. Been doing that for more than 10 years.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

You might try Alibris. I've found a few books through them.

 

[Bibliomike]

Support your local used bookstores if you've got 'em!

 

[tomswift2002]

About 10 years ago I bought a box of about 40 or 50 TOS novels at a yard sale for no more than $10. It might've also been just $5 for the whole box. And I remember as a kid one time my mom came home with a giant box of Hardy Boys books that she got for $15 at a yard sale, and there must've been 100 books in that box. So check out local yard, garage and estate sales.

 

[RandyS]

Support your local used bookstores if you've got 'em!

Agreed.

Another suggestion is Amazon. They might have some of the older ones used for $0.01. Of course, they usually make up for that in postage so you end up paying $3.01 for a used book, but that's still better that the $7.99 for a new copy.

 

[Reanok]

Since my favorite used Bookstore went out of business last month.My go to site for books besides alibris for lower priced new and Used Star trek books is htpp//:www.bookfinder.com That's how I found the Star Trek Vanguard books last year. They also sale a lot of the Star trek Comic book s too.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Amazon Marketplace has been invaluable for filling gaps in my classic Trek collection.

 

[JD]

If you read e-books you can get a few of the older books pretty cheap, and S&S are doing a big year long 50th Anniversary sale where every month a different collection of books are available for US$1.99 each.

 

[Kor]

Go to your local used bookstore, especially if it's a "paperback exchange" type of place. Ebay usually has whatever you can imagine, as well.

Kor

 

[Stevil2001]

One time I loaned a friend some Star Trek books, and then he graduated high school and I never saw him again, and after a year of promises, I gave up and repurchased my missing books. That's a cheap way to get some Star Trek books.

 

[Jinn]

One time I loaned a friend some Star Trek books, and then he graduated high school and I never saw him again, and after a year of promises, I gave up and repurchased my missing books. That's a cheap way to get some Star Trek books.

Earlier I thought about suggesting theft as a joke, but this is just mean.

 

[Stevil2001]

Earlier I thought about suggesting theft as a joke, but this is just mean.

He wasn't a very good friend even before that, in retrospect.

 

[ryan123450]

One time I loaned a friend some Star Trek books, and then he graduated high school and I never saw him again, and after a year of promises, I gave up and repurchased my missing books. That's a cheap way to get some Star Trek books.

Sad but the fact that you brought it up in this thread is pretty funny.

 

[VulcanMindBlown]

Amazon, Barnes and Noble, the local bookstore, and Ebay are obvious, but I was talking about lesser knowing websites.