How to get any book, impress the masses, silence small dogs, and awe even experts...

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Hmm Well not for me. I'm an Alumnus at a local University and I can go the re and sign out books for a month. (and also download articles for free, pr ovided I do it from their computer.) But I can't get an ILL unless I'm fac ulty, staff, or a student. At least that was the story a few years ago... last time I tried.

For a bit of thread drift I did find a book I wanted on getebook.org. *BUT

• I couldn't open up the zip file without a password and the only way to ge t a password was to take some gawd awful survey. I couldn't be bothered. (Since I wasn't even sure I'd get the book when I was done.)

Any 'better' e book sites?

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Amazon will get you almost any book in hardcopy, actually from bookstores all over the country. It's not uncommon to see the lowest price be 1 cent (plus shipping and handling.)

I've been trying to get 'Fly Fishing' by J.R. Hartley for years, but none of these bookstores can source it.

try alibris?

George h.

Well, that's not Amazon but an affiliate seller.

books.google.com will find everything you ever wanted to know about the complete printing history of the book, who has it for sale, and what libraries have it.

Gosh, do you mean "from bookstores all over the country." ?

Doesn't have to be a bookstore, asshole. It could be anyone, like a student even, before Amazon started buying their books and stocking them in its "fulfillment" centers, asshole. Anything else, asshole?

More accurately, "from some booksellers that happen to be scattered across the US and maybe others". Ditto Abe Books.

Yes, else. When I buy used books from Amazon, they are shipped from bookstores all over the country.

Isn't it nice to get multiple copies of a book from many bookstores all over the country?

ent even, before Amazon started buying their books and stocking them in its "fulfillment" centers, asshole. Anything else, asshole?

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That's when you buy older low demand used books. More and more of the newer in-demand, but used, books are coming out of the fulfillment centers. Amaz on has a record of every book you ever purchased through them and will, not infrequently, send an unsolicited offer to purchase a specific book from y ou. They do some other stuff too, but it's not my job to give away their wh ole business strategy.

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er in-demand, but used, books are coming out of the fulfillment centers. Am azon has a record of every book you ever purchased through them and will, n ot infrequently, send an unsolicited offer to purchase a specific book from you. They do some other stuff too, but it's not my job to give away their whole business strategy.

Oops, forgot to append the "asshole" appellation...

Not infrequently? I've bought tons of books, and other stuff, from Amazon, but they've never offered to buy anything from me.

Typing profanities just makes you profanely wrong, rather than your usual simply wrong.

Asshole is not profanity, it is a designation. And you're another loudmouth with no follow through. Show me how I've been the usual "simply wrong," asshole.

That's because your purchases are dull, and uninteresting.

OK, Amazon's business model is to sell people books and then buy them back. That way, that don't waste space in their warehouses, storing books. I suppose they also make money on the 150% kickback they get from the US Postal Service.

So, has anyone here received an email from Amazon, wanting to buy an Amazon-purchased book back?

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Books are becoming a smaller fraction of their sales. If Amazon had their w ay everything would be Kindle-ized, no warehousing required. They have some thing going now where they offer short term Kindle access to books purchase d in hard copy, Microsoft's desktop Kindle eBook reader is a free download. Anyway, they have much greater ambitions for their gazillion sf of warehou se space than just storing books.