Because books smell nice and don't require batteries, but also because trees are for squirrels and robins at Christmastime, and for hippies to hug in the summer.
And because every penny saved is an extra penny to spend on beer.
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Join me as I brazenly walk past Waterstones and delete Amazon from my browsing history.
Buy cheap, buy ethical, buy second-hand.
(And please don't refer to second-hand books as 'vintage', because that does my head in. Thanks.)
52 Books
Adam Marek
Aqua Books
Barter Books
BookCrossing
books i done read
Bookslut
BookTumbling
Choose What You Read
Fuck Yeah Reading
Green Apple Books
Hay-on-Wye
Hey Lady! Whatcha Readin'?
Printed & Bound
Richard Booth's Bookshop
Scrivener's Books
The Do Lectures
Two Way Monologue
Walk While Reading
All publication dates cited are for the featured edition, not the initial publication of the work.
If you think I've made a mistake, please email me on the address below and I'll either make an amendment or I'll challenge you to an arm wrestle.
I am open to contributions, but you have to be really fucking amazing.
megan.vaughan(at)live.com
For every piece of spam I receive, a baby dies.
Guess who’s just got back from Hay-on-Wye.
Turns out I already had a copy of The Graduate, same cover and everything, so I advertised the spare on Twitter and my mate Dan from Worthing will be getting a little parcel of joy in the next few days. Servant of the public, me.
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