#book shop

Newcastle, United Kingdom ✨

20.12.21 —how is it christmas in a few days this month really went by too quickly. i also picked up a few books this month (treat yo self month after all) and grabbed coffee with some friends. not sure when i’ll read everything but there is no rush after all, which book would you grab off the table?

Thinking about the future, I long for a little bookshop in a bustling city- there’s a tiny space for coffee and a corner dedicated to out-of-fashion antiques- with ladders to climb up the ceiling high shelves, filled with stories of wisdom and monsters and hope.

-All I Want

Book shop from the back, August 2021.

“You may be born into a family, but you walk into friendships. Some you’ll discover you should put behind you. Others are worth every risk.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

Hello! Here are some bookish places online that I’d like to tell you about. Please feel free to message me if you have any questions! I personally have had very good experiences with these sites. Thanks, and happy reading! ~ Rachel

My favorite places to acquire used books online:

Thriftbooks: Create an account using this link and receive a 15% discount on your first order. Woot! :)

AbeBooks: I use Abe and Thriftbooks simultaneously. Whenever I want to buy a book, I search for it on both websites and then compare availability, price, condition of book, etc.

PaperBackSwap: I have been using PBS since 2010 and have had very good results! PBS is an enormous book swapping community with over 3M books available. Simply put, you pay postage (media mail) cost to send a book and other swappers pay postage cost to send a book to you. (You don’t have to swap directly with another person.) It’s a pretty swell system.

My favorite bookish websites:

Goodreads: FAVE bookish site, for certain! Goodreads is like a social media site that’s all about books, authors, reading, connecting with other readers and authors, and much, much more! You can build a virtual bookshelf, track your reading progress, your friend’s reading progress, enter book giveaways, take book quizzes, etc. etc. etc. Seriously, it’s pretty amazing.

LibriVox: Free public domain audiobooks. Read by volunteers from around the world. LibriVox audiobooks are free for anyone to listen to, on their computers, iPods or other mobile device, or to burn onto a CD.

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What are your favorite online bookish places?

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