Free or nearly free books?

dlusman

If you have a "swap shop" near you - they usually have lots of books.

Something like the following which runs every month in Oxford

http://www.oxorinoco.org/?page_id=140

Mama-G

If you haven't already, sign upto O2 to get the free books from whsmiths

Mama-G

Pound shop also do two for £1 on most of their books

Dark_Star

With readitswapit you DO keep the books, you do not have to swap it back again. You just swap one for one each time.

I keep a box of books purely for swapping - one's I've read & won't read again. if my sawpit book is one I want to keep then I do

Lo-Lo

Currently there are a stack of free books in the foyer of Leicester train station - I think it's part of the Big Read, so there could be something similar near you. Also, loads of Leicester pubs (well, the nice real ale ones anyway, like the Criterion and the Globe) have book swaps all the time, so you can pick up a free book and drop any off there that you've finished with. I'm sure other pubs across the country must have the same sort of system.

vassa

Great replies, cheers!

I don't read fiction, so i'm strictly a non-fiction book hoarder.

DigForVictory

I acquire books in charity shops, some hospital waiting rooms, & also at the office where the "book club" is a repository of unwanted books brought in to find new owners in exchange for a donation in charity box.
I've had some wonderful books from the library selloff section too.

dlusman

And your local "freecycle" group is another obvious source. Usually lots of people offering bags of books.

or the freebies section of your local https://www.gumtree.com

scarlet_sky

Charity shops are a great place to buy books really cheap. I volunteered in a charity shop a while ago and people would even sometimes donate books that were never read as they were unwanted gifts etc.

If people were looking for a particular kind of book that they couldn't see on the shelves, we constantly had book donations coming in so if asked, we were always more than happy to go look out the back and see what was available.

OneYorkshireLass

Try Lobay, this searches the local, collection only posts on eBay and you can narrow it down to books under the filters. You can often get boxes of books for a couple of quid. Of course it's a bit of a lottery with what you're gonna get and you have to collect but sometimes it works out at a few pence per book.