Great to see you back, and let me say congratulations again, just in case you missed it in the flood <g>. (Tooth and Claw, which I adored, is one of the World Fantasy Award nominees in the novel category, for anyone who's missed it).
I used to follow this buying pattern very closely, even when I first started working in a bookstore, and got something of a discount on purchases. These days, I'll buy new, but it's partly because I just like new and undamaged books.
Having said that? I paid way too much money for a couple of the early Eva Ibbotson novels on amazon, because it was the only way I could get them. I'll buy anything used that's O/P if I think it's a book I'll reread a number of times, and Eva Ibbotson is probably the closest writer to Robin McKinley I've yet found -- no fantasy at all in the books, but with the same sense of quirky and instantly loveable characters.
And yes, I know she doesn't get money from this -- but I started out first and foremost as a reader, and I guess old habits just don't die.
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Date: 2004-08-08 10:06 pm (UTC)I used to follow this buying pattern very closely, even when I first started working in a bookstore, and got something of a discount on purchases. These days, I'll buy new, but it's partly because I just like new and undamaged books.
Having said that? I paid way too much money for a couple of the early Eva Ibbotson novels on amazon, because it was the only way I could get them. I'll buy anything used that's O/P if I think it's a book I'll reread a number of times, and Eva Ibbotson is probably the closest writer to Robin McKinley I've yet found -- no fantasy at all in the books, but with the same sense of quirky and instantly loveable characters.
And yes, I know she doesn't get money from this -- but I started out first and foremost as a reader, and I guess old habits just don't die.