3 ways to find books that are not available in stores
Books / / December 19, 2019
If your heart is given to the paper books, you know the frustration when the desired publication is not possible to find in bookstores. For lovers of rustling pages - three ways to find a book that dream job, but you can not buy.
Marina Burykina
Several years she worked in the library, now - a freelancer. He loves books and believes that they are teachers, friends, and the best remedy for the ills of life.
1. book exchange websites
LiveLib
The site has a lot of merit, cherished bibliophile, including the section "book exchange". On the main page when you first visit it to find not so easy. Use the search box at the top of the page.
Type the name of the book or its ISBNIf you need a certain publication, and then click "Find." You'll be taken to a book with a large image of its cover. Button "book exchange" is located at the top right. Next to it - the number as a fraction, such as 5/28. This means that the exchange is offered 5 books and 28 users want to get this book. Fraction might look like this: - / 5. This means that no such book in the exchange does not offer.
If the book is, by clicking the "Book Exchange" go to list offering its users. Send a message to the owner of the book, by registering on the site.
LiveLib →
BukRiver
Site located on the right search box home page. Search for books by title or author's name. Select the appropriate search box city where you live, if you are not willing to spend time on sending books by mail.
Sign up on the website and through the system messages have agreed to exchange or sale. Before you write a message to note the date of last visit. If he had been on the site in the last year or two ago, it is better to look for another option.
"BukRiver» →
2. antiquarian site
Alib.ru
On Alib.ru sell antiquarian books, but there are plenty of modern editions.
Search for books through the search box on the title, author or keyword. Located at the top of the list the most expensive edition, below - cheap.
Books are sold individuals, and they are all, of course, very different. Before ordering a book, read the description of the seller. Find out what are the conditions of sale and delivery: how it sends books (prepaid or cash delivery), where meetings usually occur as accepted deposit (bank card or electronic purses).
Recently, the site appeared a rating system that allows you to judge the trustworthiness of the seller. Five asterisks mean that for the time of the trade on the user had no complaints.
Alib.ru →
Libex
This is a site where you can not only buy but also to sell the book. On Libex many sellers and a huge number of proposals. Unlike Alib.ru, where sellers pay for the right to post information about their books here from the seller commission is charged only after the completion of the transaction. On this site there are valuable books at ridiculous prices, because competition is great.
Be careful when ordering, read the description of the sellers. Not all provide favorable conditions for the purchase, so try to clarify all the details before ordering. Assess your capabilities. Suddenly, a book will have to go to the other end of the city in several forms of transport to the entrance of the house, where the seller, since the purchase involves only self.
Libex →
3. Pre-order in the online store
The major online stores such as Ozon.ru, "Read-city" and "Labyrinth", from time to time there are rare editions and secondhand books published recently, but did not stay on the shelves. Catch them can make a reservation.
If you are an online store customer, then you have a private office. Place the cart or postpone publication, which is no longer on sale. Once the book appears, and this happens often, you come to the post office notification from the store with a proposal to place an order. Then do not waste time - buy once, because part of the book there is a single copy.
Prices for second-hand books are different, sometimes very high. But sometimes manage to buy the book at the old price, which is significantly lower than the market.
Buy books, read them, but do not let them lie idle. Leave the shelves only the most needed and loved. The rest give to, change, sell. To some books that are not of value for you, bring joy. If you book-lover, then you are familiar with what incomparable feeling when holding the book, which dreamed!