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Offline fredd

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i carnt get hold of the books
« on: July 29, 2011, 04:11:50 PM »
I have books 1 to 30 but i have no idea how i will be able to find the remaining 24 can anybody help me?
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Re: i carnt get hold of the books
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2011, 04:32:14 PM »

     Check any Goodwill stores or flea markets near your house. I found like 15 in one day at a flea market.
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Re: i carnt get hold of the books
« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2011, 05:36:57 PM »
Your options, as we see them:

-shop online (aka The Expensive, Easy Way)
-hunt yard sales (aka The Really Cheap, Difficult Way)
-hunt independent bookstores (aka The Kinda' Cheap [if the booksellers don't realize they're sitting on a gold mine by anifan standards] Way)
-library sales (aka The Way that Involves Waiting A Really Long Time for the Books to Hit the Discard Shelf)
-beg somebody else out of their books (aka The Incredibly Unlikely Way)

Of the 48-and-some-duplicates collection I have at home, about half were found at a single yard sale. Another six were gifts, twelve were bought at book fairs and chain bookstores when the books were still in print. One was found at a library discard sale. The rest were found at various independent booksellers in Illinois and Wisconsin.

As it stands... unless the series goes through a full reprint, owning a complete set is dependent on your wealth, luck, and/or persistence.

Regardless, good luck building a set!
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Re: i carnt get hold of the books
« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2011, 08:31:47 PM »
i used ebay. there are some, *erm* other *erm* sites where you might still get the ebooks
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Re: i carnt get hold of the books
« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2011, 08:33:37 PM »
     Careful. Scholastic will have a hissy :P
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Re: i carnt get hold of the books
« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2011, 08:43:20 PM »
Just by a show of hands - NO LINKS PLEASE - who here knows of the existence of a location on the Internet somewhere that offers segments (of any length) of the book(s) in digital, copy/paste-able form?

*raises hand*

And while we're on that topic, you can buy the books on Amazon. I was able to get almost all of them (used) for $0.01 plus $3.99 shipping! Four dollars a book isn't bad, right?
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Re: i carnt get hold of the books
« Reply #6 on: July 29, 2011, 08:52:22 PM »
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Four dollars a book isn't bad, right?
Considering the list price in USD on the books themselves was $4.99 (in the 1990's!) for all but about five of the main series books... no, that's definitely not bad.

That said, even mentioning the e-books here is kinda' a risky business for the sake of the forum itself. Our suggestion: restrict that discussion to nonRAF venues. E-mail, IM, or not-at-all. Not PM or post.
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Re: i carnt get hold of the books
« Reply #7 on: July 30, 2011, 02:00:44 AM »
*cough* i didn't say any names. i'm sure you could download half the library of congress if you knew where to look

amazon would probably be better since you can pick and choose exactly which books you like. plus there's no competition like on ebay.
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Re: i carnt get hold of the books
« Reply #8 on: July 30, 2011, 05:58:59 AM »
thanks for the advice guys it really helps  :D

looks like im gonna have to do some looking to find them
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Re: i carnt get hold of the books
« Reply #9 on: August 07, 2011, 04:01:39 PM »
depends where you live,
If you live in Europe, UK, America... anywhere like that or near it, I would suggest eBay.
If you live anywhere else, I would suggest Amazon ^-^
Amazon has box sets (usual four) eBay would tend to have "paks", "packs" or "lots" which would be, perhaps, 30, or 20 books. But the books vary in lots, not necessarily in order or they may be doubles. 
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Re: i carnt get hold of the books
« Reply #10 on: August 09, 2011, 04:14:37 AM »
I don't have all the books,but enough to fill a bookshelf I have.I've been lucky to find almost all of mine at Goodwill where they only charge 1 dollar for them.

Plus Ebay is a good place to find them,like a Flea Market,Yard Sale or any Libary that might be lucky enough to get rid of them.
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Re: i carnt get hold of the books
« Reply #11 on: August 11, 2011, 02:44:08 AM »
Thrift Stores!

They have them by the tons all the times and at only $0.69. That's where I got most of mine.
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Re: i carnt get hold of the books
« Reply #12 on: August 11, 2011, 02:28:47 PM »
if you still can't get them, i might be selling mine. i don't know yet. i need to talk to my cohorts
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Re: i carnt get hold of the books
« Reply #13 on: August 11, 2011, 06:31:20 PM »
I used to find them at thrift stores like Goodwill all the time, that and yard sales, but it seems to me at least that there just aren't as many copies of the books floating around these days. Yard sales and Goodwill are fine to point, but after you get down to where you need just a few books left, you kind of have to hit the internet.
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Re: i carnt get hold of the books
« Reply #14 on: August 16, 2011, 02:45:08 AM »
I was at my local Bay Books store in San Ramon, CA, and I took some pictures of all of the Animorphs books they have.

These photos were taken with and uploaded from my Nintendo 3DS. (You'll have to rotate one or two of them.)
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