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Your problem is that you replaced Amazon with a smaller and shittier version of Amazon. For the past 3 years, I've been buying all my books from a local shop.
by decebalus1 6y ago
Your problem is that you replaced Amazon with a smaller and shittier version of Amazon.
For the past 3 years, I've been buying all my books from a local shop. They're ~$5 more expensive and they arrive in about a week. The clerk (Stacy) calls me personally to tell me I can drop by to pick it up. There was only one instance in which the book was ordered but the distributor dropped the order and the book came 2 weeks later.
- reaperducer 6y agoI'm with you. I patronize independent bookshops as often as I can. But where I live now there are no independent bookshops. Zero. When I travel, I load up on books when I see booksellers. But in this case, I can't travel because of the aforementioned quarantine, so BN and Abe were all I could do. I even tried contacting the last bookstore I shopped in, Tome on the Range in Las Vegas, New Mexico. I knew it would have the books because I saw the the last time I was there. But it doesn't have a web site, hasn't updated its Facebook page since 2017, and doesn't answer its phone. So it was back to the web.