Huge bookshops

[Nymphomanic]

Does anyone know of a massive second hand bookshop where can get reasonable academic books. I know there's Barnardo's but they don't have quite what I want and the bouquiniste is too specialised and expensive. I need to get about thirty books - which altogether would come to about £220 - or more if I got them new.

Are there any huge second hand bookshops on Edinburgh or Dundee?

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I read most of the night and go south in winter - wasteland

[AuZ]

I don't know of any places in the UK, but I often buy books over the internet, and eventually found a very cheap place, that acts for charity too:

http://www.betterworld.com/

It takes about 2 weeks to get them, which may be a bit too long, but the books I got were in very good condition and cheap (I recently bought a Maths book for $10.21 instead of the £75 RRP)

[steerpike]

hm i dont know about big second hand bookshops, but i know whereabouts in Edinburgh there are a lot of small ones. On Nicholson Street there's an Oxfam bookshop, as well as a few bookstores along Buccleuch Street. You're more likely to find second hand academic stuff around this area as Nicholson st and buccleuch st are nextdoor to Edinburgh university.

There's also a string of second hand stores at the west end of the grassmarket/ on the west port, which may not have much academic stuff.

Hope this helps:)

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Nothing is easier than to condemn the evildoer, nothing is harder than to understand him.

F.Dostoevsky

[Kristin]

www.bookbutler.co.uk is also good for online shopping; it compares tons of shops and calculates postage into the final price

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Rochester. Royalist rakehell and rebellious romantic restoration poet. An easy earl and a cavalier chum of Charlie's (II). Wine and women, mirth and laughter - sermons and soda water? The day after? Not for the narcissistic nobleman!

[Cain]

amazon marketplace?

You have to pay £2.75 postage for EACH book, but you can still be ahead in with some of the discounts.

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I hold an element of surprise

[Okocim]

ebay can be a good place to look as well