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I stumbled upon that as well. Here in Dutchieland we have a store called Donner.nl that seems like a good substitute and we have bol.com that's kind of a local Amazon. Best thing we have is boekwinkeltjes.nl ("bookstores" literally) where all secondhand books are found.

Which brings me to this question; why are there so few secondhand birding/nature books offered here @ bf? Does everybody do that on other marketplaces and/or don't want to get into possible shipping abroad? I think there could grow quite an interesting book exchange with people like bf'ers!
 
Ries said:
Which brings me to this question; why are there so few secondhand birding/nature books offered here @ bf? Does everybody do that on other marketplaces and/or don't want to get into possible shipping abroad? I think there could grow quite an interesting book exchange with people like bf'ers!
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I think it is largely because birders don't tend to want to sell their books, they are either active collectors or simply want an extensive library as much as possible of various parts of the world/areas of nature
 
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puff the magic dragon said:
I have used world of books for years without any problems, very quick delivery .
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My experience with them is massively negative, often in very poor condition and with library stickers, plus, non of the staff know anything about books.
 
tmurray said:
with the closure of www.bookdepository.com it seems harder now to get various titles
Anyone suggest the best alternative (eg post free)
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I've found the best option to be Amazon - typically coming in considerably cheaper than NHBS (which is the other obvious option) for delivery to our neck of the woods. Quite a lot of my recent purchases have been post free. Also, dont forget to check out Amazon.de as well as.co.uk - I just picked up the Flexi cover copy of Lynx Eds Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago considerably cheaper from .de. It has the added advantage (to you and I anyway) of being a Euro currency site
 
twitcherf said:
I've found the best option to be Amazon - typically coming in considerably cheaper than NHBS (which is the other obvious option) for delivery to our neck of the woods. Quite a lot of my recent purchases have been post free. Also, dont forget to check out Amazon.de as well as.co.uk - I just picked up the Flexi cover copy of Lynx Eds Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago considerably cheaper from .de. It has the added advantage (to you and I anyway) of being a Euro currency site
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As someone who expect to move to EU land sometime in the future, how easy is it to use the DE site with other languages? My German is very poor.
Niels
 
twitcherf said:
I've found the best option to be Amazon - typically coming in considerably cheaper than NHBS (which is the other obvious option) for delivery to our neck of the woods. Quite a lot of my recent purchases have been post free. Also, dont forget to check out Amazon.de as well as.co.uk - I just picked up the Flexi cover copy of Lynx Eds Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago considerably cheaper from .de. It has the added advantage (to you and I anyway) of being a Euro currency site
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For comparison Amazon v NHBS - I picked up the new Birds to the Greater Southern Africa from Amazon.co.uk for €41.78 (post free). While NHBS price intially looks good (€37.55), there's a whopping €14.33 being charged for posting - so that is NHBS coming in almost 25% more expensive.

If that holds true for most books of a similar price (and experience tells me it does), then you are effectively getting 5 books from Amazon versus 4 from NHBS for the same money
 
twitcherf said:
For comparison Amazon v NHBS - I picked up the new Birds to the Greater Southern Africa from Amazon.co.uk for €41.78 (post free). While NHBS price intially looks good (€37.55), there's a whopping €14.33 being charged for posting - so that is NHBS coming in almost 25% more expensive.

If that holds true for most books of a similar price (and experience tells me it does), then you are effectively getting 5 books from Amazon versus 4 from NHBS for the same money
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I suspect international postage is making big difference for you. In the UK even with postage NHBS is sometimes (but not consistently) cheaper than Amazon.

For secondhand books in the UK ebay is obviously worth a try and Oxfam's online shop can occasionally be good.
 
Richard D said:
I suspect international postage is making big difference for you. In the UK even with postage NHBS is sometimes (but not consistently) cheaper than Amazon.

For secondhand books in the UK ebay is obviously worth a try and Oxfam's online shop can occasionally be good.
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You are absolutely correct that international postage is the difference. And to make matters worse, books I have bought recently from NHBS go to Germany first and eventually get shipped to Ireland - this means a 3 day transit turns into a 3 week transit and probably doesn't help minimise the cost either!
 
twitcherf said:
I've found the best option to be Amazon - typically coming in considerably cheaper than NHBS (which is the other obvious option) for delivery to our neck of the woods. Quite a lot of my recent purchases have been post free. Also, dont forget to check out Amazon.de as well as.co.uk - I just picked up the Flexi cover copy of Lynx Eds Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago considerably cheaper from .de. It has the added advantage (to you and I anyway) of being a Euro currency site
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Thanks for that... Yes I agree postage from UK to Ireland is prohibitive....
 

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