Sentences with phrase «at used bookstores»

By the time I was 16, I was a regular at used bookstores, always trading in romance books.

Outlander: A Novel by Diane Gabaldon — I have several friends who have recommended this series to me for years now so I picked it up at our used bookstore and took it on our family holiday to Colorado.

The Heritage of World Civilizations: I picked up the seventh edition of this college textbook for $ 4 at a used bookstore because I liked the pictures and because it was stressing me out that I was losing to my little sister in the history category of JEOPARDY.

I'm not sure if I bought it at a used bookstore in New York decades ago, or if my wife snatched it from her parents» shelves at some point.

The one thing that I really miss is the ability to swap my used «one - time» reads at the used bookstore — which is why my parents won't get into the eReader thing.

When I base this all against having a paperback copy, the $ 100 Kindle isn't as as attractive as it was, and at a used bookstore $ 100 will buy a lot of books.

This slim book was found at a used bookstore's going - out - of - business sale (alas), read by my mother, and then passed along to me.

I often hear from writers who've picked up a two - or three - year - old market guide at a used bookstore in order to save money.

A reader who would ONLY buy a book from a discount bin or cheaply at a used bookstore will disagree, of course, and love the 99 cent novel trend.

Best bet may be to hope it pops up at a used bookstore.

Or I'll pick up a cheap book at the used bookstore if I can't find it online.

I just ran across the first «Cherry Ames, Student Nurse» at a used bookstore.

Not exact matches

Chick never appeared on the New York Times bestseller list, and the odds are slim that you could find his volumes at your local used bookstore.

I have seen this book at the bookstore, but my budget says it has to wait Would love to use it and share with my friends.

Also, I bought a cookbook called Peanut Butter Planet at my local used bookstore.

The few times we have been there we have enjoyed perusing the used bookstore, Old Man Berkins, and tasting the vinegar and oil at the specialty oil store, Oil Fusion.

You can find many of them in your local bookshop, or can order them online, new or used, at one of the bookstores such as Amazon UK, or (second - hand only) from Abebooks UK.

Unless, of course, it was a shirt from the university bookstore (yes, I used to work at a university).

I'm looking for a creative, intelligent woman, who is maybe just a little cynical, but not hopeless, spaced out but not gone, and who at least USED to like bookstores (not many left anymore).

While attending school in Nuremberg... Every time we used to go shopping at Politics and Prose, a bookstore near my old apartment, I would tell Josh that I wanted to work there.

I remember the Gino D'Achille covers for the Ballantine run of the books, all eleven of them, and I remember how excited I felt once I finally completed my collection of them at a mildew - smelling (delicious) used bookstore that didn't know what it had.

Using standardized test scores to measure teacher effectiveness reminds me of the time I saw a friend at the bookstore.

Creating & Using Learning Targets & Performance Scales: How Teachers Make Better Instructional Decisions is now available at the Learning Sciences bookstore!

One benefit of using the Expanded Distribution option at CreateSpace is that the book then goes into Baker & Taylor (a distributor used by many, many bookstores), and from Baker & Taylor to places such as Powell's, Mysterious Galaxy Books, B&N, etc..

They are the collectors, the ones with their own private libraries; 3) cover price aside, most folks are buying their hard covers at a discounted price either through Amazon or other on - line retailers or by using their «club card» for their favorite local bookstore.

I love to pick through the «free» bin at our neighborhood used bookstore even now.

I have purchased numerous hardbound books, which most would consider classics, at a local used bookstore for $ 1.

This might be beneficial to the publishing industry as a whole, since many mom and pop used bookstores have been closing at an accelerated rate in the last few years.

She moves from a small Tasmanian town to New York City with nothing more than $ 300 in her pocket and takes a job at a large used bookstore — becoming embroiled in a mystery surrounding a lost Melville manuscript.

If you're willing to do a little hunting, you can find gently read copies of manga at your local used bookstore.

Judith Chevalier of the Yale School of Management and Austan Goolsbee at the Chicago Business School recently examined this market and found that college bookstores typically buy used books at 50 percent of cover price and resell them at 75 percent of cover price.

My «method» is the same behavior we use when browsing at a library or bookstore.

Really good advice in this podcast, especially to do impromptu book signings at airports when traveling (using Twitter to get the word out) and going into non-traditional book stores such as airport bookstores, spas, hotels and other places that sell books and talk to the manager.

Sales at campus bookstores declined 3 % from $ 540 million to $ 525 million, «due to a shift from selling new and used textbooks to lower priced textbook rentals,» according to the earnings release.

You may think it's odd that bookstores do not want mobile phones being used and people staring at their screens, but it is a very London thing.

He puts that experience to excellent use in his clever new mystery, Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore, in which a bookstore clerk becomes the sole heir of a lonely customer who commits suicide in the store.

The survey of 2,045 UK book buyers found that while young people felt (or at least admitted to feeling) guiltier than older shoppers about using bookstores as showrooms, they were actually more likely to do so.

This gives you the ability to shop at other bookstores and than use Adobe Digital Editions to transfer over your purchase.

I'd do the same at other new and used bookstores, typically visiting at least three or four bookstores per week and spending from one hour to three hours in each store.

A lot of people don't realize just how the «pie» of a book cost is distributed — I do, because I used to work at a bookstore.

Instead waiting in line at the compass bookstore for a few hours just to buy overpriced items, students are using Amazon Prime to have them delivered in two days.

You browse the Kobo bookstore and if a title is available at your local library it will have a borrow icon, which you can use to read the ebook for free.

If you can't find a digital version at any online bookstore, you can use our «Amazon Direct» Option to order a physical book from any online bookstore to us where the book is digitized and delivered to you.

Digital, Rental and Used Textbooks Provide Savings of 25 to 75 New York, New York — August 15, 2011 — As financially strapped higher education students head back to campus for the new school year, many will find dramatic savings and great convenience at their Barnes & Noble College campus bookstores.

I used to carry 5 paperbacks with me on business trips, and I had to buy more at many airport bookstores.

You can use Bluefire to read DRM encrypted ebooks from other bookstores or, potentially, libraries, many of which use the Adobe DRM system to expire ebooks at the end of their loan period.

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Within a year, I found a used copy of my own at a local bookstore, bought it cheap, and read it again.

What is unique are the number of independent bookstores providing shelf space for those readers who do not use an e-reader and for the independent author to showcase their work at a bookstore.

With a little browsing, I can pick it up at a local used bookstore for half that.