Today I’m going to highlight one of the current financial situations. Often, browsing on internet I read people asking for some advice on how shopping for books, in particular they want to know how to save money on books.

I love books too, and I like read book about make money, personal financial, marketing, entrepreneur, etc. Usually, I prefer borrow and read from my local library, but some books are so good that I prefer buy it. Especially, when I buy a book I’ve already read, I just don’t want to pay full price for, and with this economic crisis, I’ve learned to choose my favorite book without breaking the bank.

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Here, I put some tips that help you for saving money on books:

1. If you buy used books online can happen that you pay more for shipping than the book itself. Thus, for those live in a city, whether you want find used books for cheap, then Library book sales is a great way to do this. Library book sales has always an area with shelves were books are always for sale. The only things you need to do is to find their annual book sale. At my library’s sale, I usually find marketing and financial books for a buck or two each.

2. Reviews help you to choose what is good from what is bad. Image you purchase a book and spend $30 only to discover it don’t how you want. Usually, I use Amazon as a reference because I’m able to check prices, reviews and related works.

3. If you’ve a general idea of what you want, another way to find books cheap is to search for bargains. At garage sales you can haggle for a better price, but the selection is entirely in the hands of fate. Marketing and Personal finance books aren’t big sellers, thus you can find good deals. I bought most of my financial books on garage sale, and I built a fantastic library for cheap.

4. If you’re patient, one of common places to find used books is by looking for local thrift stores. Is an excellent places to find cheap copies of popular bestsellers. For example, recently, I saw a copy of The 4-Hour Workweek.

5. Of course, book stores, you can find used book stores not far from you. This book stores sell  marketing and personal finance books, thus you can check their stock once or twice a year to see if there are books at reasonable prices.

6. Finally tip: Usually, I tend to buy book and then I find that I can’t really get into reading them. A good idea is to only buy new books after you’ve read those last purchased. Sure, this may seem obvious, but I’ve learned only after a long time.