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Reading books has been a time-honored pastime, and it can be thrilling to purchase a new book to read for one’s pleasure. Yet for those who are not satisfied with merely reading a book once a year, regularly purchasing new books can become not only an enjoyable habit, but also a strain on one’s budget.

Purchasing cheap books could help alleviate this problem. On average, a new book can range between twelve and fifteen dollars, with hardbacks topping the twenty-five dollar range. Unlike music, it is not easy to access a book before you buy it, and everyone has had the disappointment of reading a book that doesn’t deliver. With the proliferation of authors that abound in bookstores everywhere, purchasing cheap books many prove less risky and a better investment in the long run.

So where can one find cheap books? Well-known booksellers, online sites, moving sales, and university bookstores to name a few. A fan of second-hand bookstores since my younger years, taking a chance on an unknown title is easier and safer when you buy books for a cut-rate price. Cheap books do not automatically equate with lower quality either; well-known classics can be found next to modern fiction, and poetry can nestle beside love anthologies. If one adopts a serendipitous approach in their book search, they may find just the book they are looking for, and potentially at half the cover price or less. As an avid reader, I have been pleasantly surprised to happen upon rare, discontinued editions of books that I have never been able to order in any bookstore.

Online stores offer a plethora of cheap books to choose from- if one would rather not wade through the overwhelming stacks in regular bookstores. Some smaller booksellers purchase titles wholesale, and are then able to sell them cheaper to online customers. Often big-name bookstores have a surplus of books following the holiday season, and sell selected titles off cheap.

For more determined book buyers, moving sales often sell an eclectic assortment of cheap books for pennies, which is the similar case in charity shops. And in college towns, the end of the year brings a tidy profit to poor students looking for a return on their academic investments. Students often post desperate ads offering cheap books, and university bookstores often slash the prices on select titles.

First editions, eclectic authors, or niche interest selections may prove elusive at lower prices. Yet with the cost you save on buying others at a cheaper price, you may just be able to splurge and pay full-price on one you have been wanting for a long time.

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