Richard's Animorphs Forum
Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: roguebluejay on April 28, 2010, 06:22:14 AM
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Hey everyone, me again.
So, today I discovered something. As some of you know I work in a primary school and today I went into one of the rooms in search of a book for a kid to read to me (not a strange as it sounds... Anyway.)
So I look at this shelf and it is packed to the brim with animorphs. Not quite the entire series, probably missing 20 books... But still the largest collection of animorphs books I had ever seen outside of a bookshop (and my own room.)
I started looking through them, and some of them I don't think have ever been read! They have never been opened! My own copies are so beaten up that it was bizzare looking at them, all shiney and new... I felt like a kid in a bookstore again.
I guess thats what the reprint might be like.
Anyway, I nicked a few to read in my room. I love the ebooks, but I love the physicals WAY more!
Anyways. I just wanted to ask if any of you had discovered a load of animorphs books.
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Just a couple weekends ago at a yard sale there was about the first half of the collection.. I bought every book I could with the cash I had.
A year ago I bought em all on ebay. Love that thing.
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There's a used book warehouse type place near me, and I went through the kids' section and got all nostalgic. There were several Animorphs books in pretty good condition, with the bookmarks and decals still in them (I bought a couple XD), and a hardcover of #4...it didn't appear to be Large Print, so it was really weird! I'd never seen any of the non-Chronicle books in hardcover before.
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There's a used book warehouse type place near me, and I went through the kids' section and got all nostalgic. There were several Animorphs books in pretty good condition, with the bookmarks and decals still in them (I bought a couple XD), and a hardcover of #4...it didn't appear to be Large Print, so it was really weird! I'd never seen any of the non-Chronicle books in hardcover before.
That's a limited first edition of the book. Hang on to it!
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There's a used book warehouse type place near me, and I went through the kids' section and got all nostalgic. There were several Animorphs books in pretty good condition, with the bookmarks and decals still in them (I bought a couple XD), and a hardcover of #4...it didn't appear to be Large Print, so it was really weird! I'd never seen any of the non-Chronicle books in hardcover before.
Damnit...I didn't buy it x3
That's a limited first edition of the book. Hang on to it!
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i have a couple hard covers. i didnt know there was something special to them! i think i have #28 and the #30 somethin? anyhoo
the used bookstore by my house has quite a few. i wish id known this BEFORE i spent so much buying online!
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there's only one used bookstore near my house. i really wanna go there. I've only been there once and i remember they had a ton of animorphs books. I didn't buy any then because that was back when I had all of my collection lol
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I remember during Christmas break on vacation, my mom told me she was going to a used bookstore. The first thing that came to mind was "There's most likely Animorphs books there" and sure enough, there was. I bought maybe 8 or 9 books there.
My friend, who earlier this year gave me 18 Animorphs books got it discounted from one of those stores you donate to (I wish I knew the word for it!)
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This didn't happen to me but I know a kid in school who's mom found about 20 or so Animorphs books in storage or something. Then she sold them because she though he was "too old for them." Pfft, no one's too old for Animorphs.
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My parents thought I was too old for animorphs when I was dead in the middle of the demographic. Damn intelligent parents, ruining my love of trashy american fiction!
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Oh man, so lucky. I've been trolling three thrift stores every Saturday trying to complete my collection, and I swear, someone else in town is doing the same exact thing. I leave ones I already have on the shelves (unless they're in really good condition), and the last several times out, there have been zero books on the shelves. I'm not missing too awfully many, so I'm thinking about giving up and buying them on Amazon.
But there's just something so exciting about happening upon one you don't have in a bookstore. ::)
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Ugh. I would never sell my kids' books, as long as they were reading something I wouldn't care...and besides, I'd probably want to know why they liked them so much at age 20 or whatever, and maybe read them XD
I went to the used bookstore warehouse yesterday but there weren't any hardcover regulars...I did find a Hork-Bajir Chronicles hanging out in the fantasy section, not in the kids' section, though, and that made me kind of grin...yesss, they are more sci-fi, but someone obviously thought "cool artwork! this cannot be for teh childrens!?!11"
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XD That's amusing, Myitt. Although I would argue that Hork-Bajir Chronicles was written for people who were at least twelve or thirteen. The series got older with us. :D At least the parts written by K.A. did anyway.
I would never sell my kid's books unless they said I could. And then I'd question them several times before doing so. I sold some stuff at a yard sale as a kid and I've regretted it ever since. Stupid kid me. >___<
My library actually has a pretty substantial collection. Yay me! :D
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Guys an easy way to get all the books is through www.amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com)
They usually are sold for like 1 cent + 2.99 for shipping and handling. I've bought all the books and chronicles this way in the past year and in almost perfect condition.
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I'm going to go to Half Price Books during my lunch break today. You guys've spurred me on to finding more copies! Several of mine are pretty beat up. Plus I might try to find Alternamorphs #2; I didn't bother even purchasing it at the time, but it might be nice to have, just for completion's sake, you know?
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I'm going to go to Half Price Books during my lunch break today. You guys've spurred me on to finding more copies! Several of mine are pretty beat up. Plus I might try to find Alternamorphs #2; I didn't bother even purchasing it at the time, but it might be nice to have, just for completion's sake, you know?
Hehe, Alt #2 is the only one I don't have. It's actually pretty hard to find, probably because a lot of people didn't buy it in the first place.
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Remember that the re-release is occurring next year, so don't get rid of all your money hunting down out-of-print copies. The sales for the new books are the ones that will really count for Scholastic.
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I'm glad I just repurchased the entire series. The ones that they're going to release.. We don't know if they're the same covers or if anything in the story will be changed.
Yes, ill buy it again when its brand new if there are any changes. But the old ones are what MEAN something. They're worn and torn and bent and have been read 100 times apiece. Those are the ones with all the memories.
I still buy extra copies when I find them
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Yeah, plus I'm hopefully going to be teaching English next year, so it'd be good to have some extra copies to stick in the classroom! :)
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the Waterloo Public Library used to have, like, 4o something animorphs books, before the re-issued boks came out
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I work at a library, so I got piles when they weeded 'em. And then a former coworker had her husband, who still works with us, pass on to me the Animorph weeds from where she now works.
The other huge find I made was at a local used book shop that I wish still existed but it doesn't. Someone had donated an entire box of Animorphs. But what I don't get was why they had two or so of most of the books in the box.