I Love Second Hand Book Stores Stories of Experiences

Great thing about used book stores, is looking through the shelves and finding something you hadn't been looking for, but once you see it you have to have it. Another great thing is if it is a rare book and it is priced right. Doesn't...

It's in a secondhand book store I found my Mary Higgins Clark books and I couldn't get any happier. I love how the price is half of the brand new. I love how I get to read books of any genres too. I love stores like this.

I view used book stores the same way I used to view my grandmother's attic, as a repository of undiscovered treasure. If I am bored or if I don't really know what I'm in the mood to read I head to one of the many used book stores in my...

To me, there is no greater joy than to let the fleeting world pass you by and just... stroll around in a second hand book store.

I can literally spend hours gawking at books in the store searching for little jewels. For example: I...

I love a good rummage around a second hand book store, or in the book section of a charity shop. It's the variety that appeals to me and the joy of discovery.

When I enter the shop I know I will encounter books I've never heard of...

Strand in New York's Greenwich Village is one of the best second hand book shops on the planet. There are a lot of really great books on sale for half price or less.  I Blood Meridian for six dollars.  I've been able to buy works by...

I grew up on a farm and money was sparse I developed an early love for the worn and strangely scented pages of second hand books.
I do admit a preference for stores with cats in them.

Once again I went to my favorite place to find good used books, and it's a place that has more also. It is also my most favorite place for a love-hate relationship with! This place I frequent sells books by the pound,so naturally the...

I surely hope that printed books continue to be published. It's fine to read on an iPad or such, but nothing beats print for extended reading -- or beach reading.

I LOVE to spend hours in used book stores. Everything about them is...

...When you go into one of those stores, you can not only find a book(s) at a really low price, but also you never know what you are going to find. I love that about these stores, they are awesome that way.

My favorite thing to do is to go hunting for books (and other things as well actually), and when I find some good secondhand books it's wonderful! Sometimes when I've gone to the one I lean on mostly, my quest for books on the beauty...

That shop is the background on my computer right now! I ben dhere!

Greetings fellow EP'ers! Today I went to my favorite place to find good used books, and though I did not strike it real rich on it today I did find some good ones! I found a big book on lighthouses with some beautiful images in it...

Today I went to a favorite place for second hand books, and it's like going on a quest! The books are placed in bins comprising two long lines of books in larger plastic bins on wheels! Today as I began my quest for books with...

There is a second hand bookstore down the street from the place we housesit throughout the year, and if I'm not careful, I could spend all day there. They have a wonderful array of books and music, new and used. With comfortable chairs...

I am certain I have never left a second hand book store empty handed. They are the best place to go when you are in the mood to read and don't really know what you want. You always find something good. There is one close to where I...

you can almost find so many out of print books and also quite a few speical additions all for a good price and the people who work in these shops are genuinely interested in reading too so can give great advice.

One of my best friends was deciding on a grad school and we drove up to Ann Arbor for him to take tests, tour the campus, etc. While he did this, I wandered the town on foot. I was in book heaven. There were 2nd hand stores...

It is just that when you hold a Second handed book.. Or, maybe a Book from the Libary or whatever, it just seems Nicer to me. You know how every book has a different thrill for a different person...its like you can sense it.. I know it...

My father is the manager at a thrift store and anyone that has been to a thrift store knows that a thrift store is a library's cousin. Figurtively speaking of course. I get to get stuff realtively free because I volunteer there. There...