Tips and experiences ordering recommended books

[Mal7]

Hairdryer / sticker removal tip.

When ordering used books, particularly from some of the larger operations like Better World Books, sometimes they arrive with the bookseller's barcode inventory management sticker stuck on the spine. These stickers are sometimes not easy to remove neatly or completely, but in these cases using a hairdryer to warm up the glue before peeling off the sticker often works well.

 

[Gawan]

Hairdryer / sticker removal tip.

When ordering used books, particularly from some of the larger operations like Better World Books, sometimes they arrive with the bookseller's barcode inventory management sticker stuck on the spine. These stickers are sometimes not easy to remove neatly or completely, but in these cases using a hairdryer to warm up the glue before peeling off the sticker often works well.

Yes, that is a great tip and an iron does also work for example.

 

[Noctu]

I found a used copy of 'The Fire from within (Black Swan S.)' by Carlos Castaneda on https://www.awesomebooks.com/ for very little money (about 5 EUR). The shipping costs were very low as well.

However, and I think this hasn't been mentioned here (or I overlooked), import tariffs an custom fees between countries can make it a lot more expensive. Even from the UK to Belgium will probably cost me some extra euros.

Within the EU there are no fees but from the US, UK, China, etc. there are extra costs involved.

 

[Cat_Sass]

Four books of Charles Fort recommended on the QFS list are available in public domain for download on _Fortean Texts

The English version of Dwellings of the Philosophers one may get easier by writing to the publisher Archive Press directly. Althoug the Hardcover is sold out they say they still have paperback copies available. the contact one can find on: _http://www.archivepress.com/

Otherwise the Abe book site had the above book in French, Italien as well but much more rarely in Spanish and Portuguese. The way to bring them up on the Abe page is to search for "Fulcanelli".

Edit: The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manley Palmer Hall [1928] mentioned in the lists, is in public domain and available for download at _Secret Teachings of All Ages Index

I found the Fulcanelli texts at the Internet Archive, archive.org

 

[Ricardo]

( Fwiiw) Early 2000's , when i found Sott, was using p2p file sharing network(s) for downloading books , easily got up to over 10gb's of books there , which did include many of the recommended reading books .