Never Pay Full Price for a Book!

Are you an avid reader? Are you trying to instill a
love of reading in your children?

My whole family loves to read! Right before bedtime
every night, every one of us might be found with our
nose in a book!

It would be very effortless for us to spend a fortune every
month on books. But, since we dont have a fortune
to spend every month, over the years Ive found several
ways to get nice books and never pay full price!

1. Garage and yard sales are a prime source for both
hardback and paperback books. There are many people who will
buy a book, read it once, and theyre ready to get
rid of it. I pick up lots of books at yard sales and
never pay more than 50 cents each.

2. Used bookstores are another place to find great
reading material. Store policies differ but most do
something like sell the books at half the cover price.
If you bring in books to trade, a store will usually
give you credit for one-fourth of the original purchase
price. I sometimes buy books at garage sales for
50 cents, read the book, and take it to the used book
store where I get more than my 50 cents in credit.

If I find a book in very effective condition at a yard sale
for less than 50 cents, I will buy it even if I dont
want to read it because I may trade it in for credit
at the used bookstore.

3. Trading with friends and family is yet another way
to get grand reading material. My mom and I live 200
miles apart, but we always have a bag of books to trade
whenever we visit each other. After weve both read a
book, then it goes to the used bookstore.

4. I have recently discovered that the Dollar Stores in
our area (and most definately in yours, too) have books,
hardback and paperback, for $1.00 each. The selection is
not very large, but they have fiction and non-fiction and
books for grown-ups and children, too. A book might make
a great gift and at a $1.00 price it makes grand economic
sense, too.

5. Bookstore chain stores, like Hastings, have clearance
tables somewhere in the store all the measure . It takes
some instant to look through them, but I have bought many
gifts from these clearance tables.

6. If you understand of a book youd really like to have, why
not just let your family understand ? Your mom or your sister
or husband would most likely love to give you a gift for
Christmas or your birthday that is something that they
know you really want.

7. And dont fail to remember your local library! The library is
a wonderful place to get a book youve been wanting to
read without having to buy it. You may also read the
latest issues of most magazines at the library.
I consider public libraries to be one of the "finer
things in life"!

So, if you, too, are an avid readers , or if youre
guiding your children to a lifetime love of reading,
there are lots of ways to "read on the cheap"!